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Slain deputy will be laid to rest Thursday
| posted Saturday, March 6th, 2010 @ 4:39 pm | | The funeral for Ouachita Parish Sheriff Cpl. J.R. Searcy will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church of West Monroe. Burial will be at Kilpatrick's Serenity Gardens under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of West Monroe. Visitation is 5-9 p.m. Wednesday at the church.
Searcy was responding to a call Thursday in southwestern Ouachita Parish when he was shot by 26-year-old Michael Tanner. Tanner was immediately shot to death by a deputy who accompanied Searcy to the scene.
Searcy was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe following the shooting. He died Saturday night at the hospital.
A bank account to benefit Searcy's family has been set up at Progressive Bank. |
ULM to present domestic violence workshops March 10-12
| posted Friday, March 5th, 2010 @ 9:39 am | Read More… | The University of Louisiana-Monroe's School of Visual and Performing Arts will host domestic violence workshops at 7:30 p.m. March 10-12 in Spyker Theatre. The workshops are free, though donations benefiting the domestic violence awareness organization V-Day will be accepted. |
Officials give V-Vehicle more time Local governing bodies will give V-Vehicle Co. at least through the end of March to secure a $320 million loan from the U.S. Department of Entergy to provide funding for the company to establish an automobile manufacturing presence in Ouachita Parish. |
Caldwell, Moore clash over study The Ouachita Parish Police Jury didn't act on a proposed $50,000 study for a comprehensive plan for the police jury's two minority districts following some heated discussion that prompted one police juror to leave the meeting before it concluded. |
City takes action against delinquent payers The Taxation and Revenue division for the city of Monroe has begun legal action against 12 local businesses presumed delinquent on approximately $1.2 million dollars in local sales tax. |
CenturyLink reports lucrative fourth quarter
| posted Thursday, March 4th, 2010 @ 10:08 am | Read More… | CenturyLink's board of directors voted last week to declare a quarterly cash dividend of 72.5 cents per share, representing a 3.6 percent increase over the previous 70 cent per share quarterly dividend. |
Alexander optimistic about V-Vehicle's loan U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander remains optimistic V-Vehicle Co. will secure a $320 million loan from the Department of Energy to largely finance its venture into the automobile manufacturing business. |
911 launches awareness campaign Ouachita Parish 911 officials will begin an awareness campaign to inform citizens about misusing the emergency call service. |
LEAP/GEE testing dates change
| posted Thursday, March 4th, 2010 @ 10:02 am | Read More… | LEAP and GEE tests for 4th, 8th, 10th, and 11th grade students will be administered in two parts beginning in March. The first part of the test, Phase 1, will be given on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. The second part of the test, Phase 2, will be given the week of April 12 - 16, 2010. |
ULM debuts mobile health screening unit
| posted Thursday, March 4th, 2010 @ 10:00 am | Read More… | A mobile health screening unit, operated by the University of Louisiana-Monroe's College of Health Sciences made its formal debut this month at the Ouachita Council on Aging. The mobile unit is made possible with the support of financial institutions including IberiaBank, BankcorpSouth and the Living Well Foundation. |
V-Vehicle misses deadline
| posted Sunday, February 28th, 2010 @ 6:08 pm | Read More… | V-Vehicle Co. won't have $350 million on hand Monday, March 1, which the company was required to have to access millions of dollars in incentives that state and local governments extended to V-Vehicle to aid its efforts to establish an automobile manufacturing operation in Ouachita Parish. |
DOTD announced I-20 lane closures
| posted Friday, February 26th, 2010 @ 3:54 pm | Read More… | Westbound, I-20 in West Monroe and Monroe from Stella/Mill to Texas Street will have an outside lane closure with periodic ramp closures on Saturday, Feb. 27 beginning at 7 a.m. and should be complete by 1 p.m. for interstate sign inspection. Eastbound, I-20 in West Monroe and Monroe from Stella/Mill to Texas Street will have an outside lane closure with periodic ramp closures on Sunday, Feb. 28 beginning at 7 a.m. and should be complete by 1 p.m. for interstate sign inspection. |
Deadline arrives for V-Vehicle The Ouachita Parish Police Jury unanimously approved a resolution Monday to issue $11.5 million in bonded indebtedness as part of local governments' financial obligation to V-Vehicle Co. |
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