Grant to fund repairs to Tullos Town Hall

The Town of Tullos recently received an L-GAP grant for $25,000 to make repairs on the town hall. The grant award was announced at the...

LaSalle Detention Facility's Helping Hands

By Tina Gold LaSalle Detention Facility Training Manager

Back in December of 2010, LaSalle Detention Facility partnered up with the LaSalle Head Start Program at Good...

LPSO Narcotic Detectives make several drug arrests in past week

Narcotic detectives with the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office have been quite busy during the past week investigating three cases and making three drug related arrests,...

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor:

My faith in humanity has been completely restored.

One day last week, I was shopping at Wal-Mart in Jena. I left the store with my...

LaSalle arrests reported

The following were booked into the LaSalle Parish Jail during the past week:

Robert Townsend, 38, of Enterprise, was arrested May 7 by Olla Police and...

Jindal signs sentencing reform law

Governor Bobby Jindal signed FM 994 by Rep. Joseph Lopinto into law last Friday. The bill is part of the Governor’s 2012 legislative package and...

Retired teacher feted during board meeting

Mavis Steen, a 93-year-old retired LaSalle Parish school teacher, was honored during the regular May meeting of the LaSalle Parish School Board held Monday night...

LPSB retirement tea held Thursday...

Retiring employees of the LaSalle Parish School System were honored at a “retirement tea” held last Thursday at the Family Life Center of First Baptist...

Pew study pans pay raises for Louisiana

By Tom Aswell

A Pew Research Center study released Thursday indicates that Louisiana is the sixth-worst state in the nation in terms of chances of employees-...

Gov. Jindal signs veterans legislation

Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law last Friday a bill to exempt disabled veterans from having to pay the fee to obtain a special identification...