West Monroe News

Fourth District Court Judge Marcus Clark pulled out a convincing victory Saturday for a seat on the state Supreme Court over Jimmy Faircloth, who was endorsed by his former boss, Gov. Bobby Jindal. With all 693 precincts reported from 20...

La. — Beginning next year, a lot of Louisiana high school classrooms could look like Wes Sebren's: equipped with welding gear, safety goggles and circular saws. Sebren, a teacher at West Ouachita High School near West Monroe, is at the...

The playoff pairings were announced in Baton Rouge on Sunday, and West Monroe coach Don Shows sent two assistant coaches to the meeting...The district games sort of break even, he said, but his non-conference foes� losses are what cost him...

Natchitoches Central and Pineville � are the only thing standing in West Monroe�s way as it attempts its fourth straight perfect regular season. But it�s exactly these trap games that tend to worry Rebel coach Don Shows. �It�s the same...

Loretta Jackson and her sister began mapping out a holiday shopping strategy last week in preparation for the Black Friday bargains that traditionally kick off the gift-buying season. The Monroe sisters have been following the Black Friday Web sites and...

Fourth District Judge Wilson Rambo has affirmed the order by the West Monroe Board of Aldermen that a teetering townhouse along the banks of the Ouachita River be condemned and destroyed. But demolition is unlikely to begin until January at...

Patsy Chappell of Monroe showed up at LifeWay Christian Store in the Pecanland Mall Shopping Center Monday afternoon planning to buy a copy of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's newest book, "A Simple Christmas," as a gift for her father....

Louisiana is known for its food, so the owner of the state's largest dairy and only ice cream plant thought it was natural to include some of the state's most famous products as signature ingredients in his creamy recipes. Jeff...

A father who ran his pickup off White's Ferry Road in West Monroe into a pond in May 2008, injuring his teenage son who is now an invalid, was given a four-year, nine-month suspended sentence Wednesday in 4th District Court....

The cover was charred and burned, but the text, a bit wet from efforts to save the building, was unharmed by the fire itself. Fire consumed the church Wednesday morning after firefighters fought it for more than seven hours. Curt...