06/01/11 The courtroom at Bogalusa City Hall was packed to overflowing when U.S. Senator David Vitter hosted a Town Hall meeting Tuesday, but about a third of a group of approximately 30 Rayburn Correctional Center employees who are concerned for their jobs walked out after they realized Vitter does not have specific influence on the state budget.
06/01/11 Louisiana's Science Education Act was designed to trump evolution with the Lord. Gov. Bobby Jindal couldn't wait to sign it. He did so over the objections of his old professor at Brown, no less, where he graduated in biology. But that was before he earned a master's in political expediency and pandering
06/01/11 Michelle Casteel, who lives across the highway from Five Lakes Campground in Bush, was home from work early due to illness Thursday and called the Daily News at 4:37 p.m. She said she had just lost electrical power and asked if anybody had heard anything about a tornado being spotted in her vicinity. Casteel could almost have simply stuck her head outside and listened. But that would not have ...
05/25/11 There will likely be no change as to who will operate the Choctaw Landfill when the current contract with Land Works Inc. expires at the end of the month.
05/25/11 Anybody who has had occasion to drive or walk down Avenue U in recent days has surely noticed the high activity along the street in front of the Temple Inland offices.
05/25/11 A-1 Wireless of Bogalusa was recently honored as the top retailer in the Gulf States market among AT&T authorized retailers.
05/25/11 The Bogalusa Police Department, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Louisiana State Police Narcotics division, continues the push to rid the streets of Bogalusa of drugs.
05/25/11 The Bogalusa Lions Club was recently recognized at the State Lions Convention in Bossier City for its work in the Louisiana Cub Sight Program.
05/22/11 LSU Bogalusa Medical Center received the 2010 Louisiana Hospital Capstone Quality Award, presented by eQHealth Solutions, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Louisiana.
05/16/11 (AP) -- Hancock Holding Co. will take over Gulf Coast banking rival Whitney Holding Corp. early next month.
05/15/11 House Bill 63 goes before committee on Monday and if passed it could mean a rise in the price of cigarettes.
05/10/11 Wednesday, May 11 Business Networking International breakfast for business owners and professionals, 7:30 a.m., Pinewood Country Club. For more information, call 643-3111.
05/08/11 In World War II, they beat back the Nazis in Europe and survived kamikaze attacks in the Pacific.
05/08/11 State Sen. Jack Gordon, a Capitol icon whose state political experience stretches nearly four decades, died in his Okolona home Saturday surrounded by family after a battle with brain cancer that has lasted over a year, said close friend Sen. Terry Burton.
05/08/11 As a super tornado carrying winds of up to 205 miles per hour was blasting a path across Mississippi April 27, former Daily News publisher Joe Fannin was sitting in front of a television in Bogalusa watching the Weather Channel.
05/08/11 A 2-year-old girl is in critical condition from injuries sustained in a single-vehicle accident Thursday evening on Louisiana Highway 436 near Varnado, approximately three miles north of Bogalusa.
05/05/11 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Senate Education Committee has delayed plans to debate the merger of Southern University at New Orleans with the University of New Orleans. The committee had scheduled a Thursday hearing on the divisive proposal. But its chairman, Bogalusa Sen. Ben Nevers, scrapped the hearing plans, saying the measure instead will be discussed next week. Sponsor Sen. Conrad Appel of ...
05/04/11 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The new superintendent of schools taken over by the state through the Recovery School District will get an annual pay package of nearly $281,000, under a three-year contract announced by the state education department. The agreement for John White includes a $225,000 salary, $21,600 car allowance, up to $30,000 for housing and $4,000 for life insurance or other ...
04/26/11 Silver settled just short of $50 an ounce after a big price swing Monday as the precious metal draws in investors worried about inflation ahead of a meeting by the Federal Reserve's policy-making committee.
04/26/11 Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's top financial adviser on Tuesday defended the administration's proposal to hire a private company to run a state worker and retiree health insurance program, rebutting complaints the privatization would boost health care costs to generate short-term cash for the budget. | 
