Dr. Ray Morrison will resume as the Dean of the VCOM - Louisiana campus. Morrison was the Founding Dean in 2020 and left for personal reasons.

The latest LEAP test results show that overall student proficiency among students in grades three through eight is up a percentage point, with 35-percent achieving Mastery or above.

The 2025 World Series for the 15U division will begin play on Thursday, July 10th at 9:00 AM. Pool play will be played the first day and the early portion of day two. Bracket play will begin in the afternoon of day two with the top two seeds of each pool being placed into a single elimination bracket.

With the theme “New Orleans Matters,” Frank Scurlock says this campaign is his personal crusade to save and restore the City of New Orleans.

Ouachita Parish SCAT conducted a traffic stop on Hwy. 165 near the Jackson Street interchange in Monroe. During the stop, 2.02 pounds (916 grams) of Methamphetamine were seized.

The crash claimed the life of 59-year-old Michael Fairley of Grambling.

The City of Monroe is holding numerous downtown events to celebrate Independence Day

The unveiling ceremony will take place on Friday, July 18, 2025, at 5:30 PM at the corner of E. Park Avenue and N. Vienna Street in downtown Ruston. The event is free and open to the public, rain or shine, with attendees encouraged to arrive early.

There are two upcoming opportunities for first responders to attend the in-person trainings at Hemphill Hall on the ULM campus. The first sessions will be July 29 and 30, and the second sessions will be August 5 and 6.

Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963.