 02/18/10 (From The Times-Picayune ) USDA Rural Development has approved a $5.2 million Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan for CleanTech Solutions Worldwide, that will allow it to build a new plant in Cottonport.
 02/17/10 USDA Rural Development has approved a $5.2 million Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan for CleanTech Solutions Worldwide, LLC. The funding will allow the company to build a new plant in Cottonport, Louisiana. "This will add to the local economy's tax...
02/04/10 UPDATE: (Baton Rouge) Search teams from C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center continue to search for 19-year-old Jamaul LeBleu, who was assigned to a litter work detail yesterday at the time of his escape (around1:00 p.m.) in Vinton, Louisiana. LeBleu is a black male, 5 feet 5 inches tall weighing approximately 150 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair. Search teams are concentrating their ...
 01/27/10 Associated Press - January 27, 2010 6:54 AM ET MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) - Cottonport Police officers have arrested a 39-year-old man in the death of his longtime girlfriend.
 01/25/10 A celebration of life for Ann Austin, 99, will be held Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Cottonport. Officiating will be Father Pike Thomas of St. Jude's Catholic Church, Bossier City. Prior to the mass, the visitation will be held at Escade Funeral Home at 9 a.m. Ann was born July 9, 1910 in Cottonport and passed away January 23, 2010 at Grace Home in ...
12/26/09 Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office Daily Arrest Report Dec 26, 2009 Name: Bazile, Lorenzo Charge: Owi Vehicle Arresting Agency: La State Police Troop I Address: 1900 Blk Hwy 362 Cottonport, La Name: Bellard, Kevin Charge: Disturbing The Peace Charge Arresting Agency: Lafayette Parish Sheriff'S Ofc Address: 2600 Blk Read AVE Bellmont, La Name: Broussard, Ronald Charge: Fugitive Arresting Agency ...
 12/22/09 The convoy assembled in front of what volunteers have started calling "Santa Central" at about 5:30 Monday night.
12/11/09 The Christmas parade season begins in earnest tonight with the annual Pineville Christmas parade.
11/06/09 LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTERS TO HOLD 4TH ANNUAL 24-HOUR BLOOD DRIVE: Noon, Today until Noon Saturday, Located at 2051 N. Mall Drive, Alexandria. Drawing for prizes for participating blood donors. For information, call (318) 445-7439.
11/02/09 ALEXANDRIA ZOO BOO: 6:30-9 p.m., 3016 Masonic Drive in Alexandria. For information, call (318) 473-1143.
 10/13/09 n Travis James Stelly, age 30, 148 Lee St., Opelousas, charged with simple battery involving domestic violence and hold for deputies.
10/03/09 LECOMPTE PIE FESTIVAL: Today, 8 p.m., Zydeco Dance, Sunday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Arts, crafts and food. Cost is $3. For more information, contact Dorothy Verrett at (318) 776-5551.
09/29/09 FREE POSTER CONTEST BEGINS: Keep Louisiana Beautiful is sponsoring its first poster design contest, beginning today. Middle and high school students are eligible. The deadline is Fri., Oct. 16. The winning design will be awarded $500, second place winner, $350 and third place, $150. For more information of official rules, visit www.keeplouisianabeautiful.org.
08/05/09 BATON ROUGE -- State and local prison inmates, workers who oversee them and visitors to the jails will face tougher smoking restrictions starting Aug. 15, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections said Tuesday.
08/05/09 BATON ROUGE, La. -- Smoking is about to get tougher for Louisiana's prisoners. The state corrections department says smoking restrictions will be placed on state and local...
 08/05/09 The state corrections department says smoking restrictions will be placed on state and local inmates, prison staff and visitors to the jails starting next week, on August 15th.
08/05/09 Smoking may be restricted to designated areas and during certain hours. Indoor smoking could be banned.
08/04/09 BATON ROUGE -- State and local prison inmates, the staff who oversee them and visitors to the jails will be restricted in their smoking habits starting Aug. 15, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections said today.
 08/04/09 Voluntary smoking cessation programs at two state correctional facilities have proven successful in the first months of implementation as the Department readies for a full ban on indoor smoking by August 15, 2009.
 08/02/09 The owner of the halfway house where Former Ouachita Parish Police Jury Public Works Director Frederick "Bo" Boyte was participating in a work release program said Saturday that Boyte had been picked up by the Louisiana Department of Corrections on Thursday night. | 
