A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a Monday shooting incident in West Monroe that left one man dead and another hospitalized. Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a reported shooting in the 200 block of Horne Lane…
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Graveside service set next week for Brenda Addison
Graveside services will be held next week for a city employee who died recently from complications associated with COVID-19. Brenda Addison, a 23-year employee of the City of Monroe died last week after contracting COVID mixed with several other pre-existing…
Rushing’s reporting of slum housing changed Monroe, dead at 71
Graveside services will be held Saturday for a woman who was one of the first African-Americans on the reporting staff of the Monroe News-Star. Services for Eleanor Rushing McCarty, 71, will be held Saturday, January 23rd at the…
Services set for two church women
Two local church women died this week and families are preparing memorials to their memory in light of COVID 19 Social Distancing rules. Wilima Smith A memorial service is being planned for Wilima Smith, an employee of the City of…
NAACP opposes Berry as school board president, sellout claimed
Daryll Berry has been named President of the Monroe City School Board in a controversial vote that the NAACP says does not reflect the interest of the students of the system. Berry, who was nominated and supported by the Board’s…
Suspended lawyer gets city James Sharp Award
The City of Monroe presented a civil rights award to a local attorney whose license to practice law has been suspended. During the City of Monroe’s 45th annual Martin Luther King Celebration last Thursday, Mayor Oliver Ellis, presented the James…
Mother upset that son’s killer to only get three years
The mother of Eric Goodwin is in tears. The man who killed her son, Andre Lewis, will learn his fate Friday when he stands before Judge Marcus Hunter for sentencing. Judy Goodin is depressed, filled with tears, and is reliving…