BATON ROUGE—A bill to extend early voting from seven to 10 days during presidential elections was approved unanimously by a House committee Wednesday. Rep. Frederick Jones, D-Monroe, offered his bill after the record voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election. Louisiana saw over 2.1 million pe...

Today is the National Day of Prayer. As I scroll though Facebook, I see many pictures of the many different gatherings of people who attended prayer services across the land. There were several pictures of prayer gatherings there in Jena. For more than forty-five years I have participated in the Nat...

Destinee Beard of Jonesville and Samuel Lawson of Jena, are pleased to announce their engagement and approaching marriage. The bride-elect is the daughter of Kimberly Fannin of Jonesville and Kelvin Beard of Monterey. Destinee will be attending the University of Louisiana at Monroe in the fall for R...