To the most beautiful person I know. She’s kind, helpful, and caring, and will give you the shirt off her back. To me, God sent one of his angels to watch over me when my parents died. She was there…
Category: Events
Celebration of Life: Shelton Ray Spivey, Jr.
Coach Shelon Ray Spivey, Jr., was born on December 27, 2024 to Catherine Varner-Spivey and the late Shelton Ray Spivey, Sr. He departed this life on March 7, 2024 surrounded by his loving family. Shelton was reared and educated in…
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Archonette Tea for Kristen McDowell
The Epsilon Omicron Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc honored Senior Archon Ette Kristen McDowell at Kristen’s Perfectly Imperfect Blue & White Tea on March 2, 2024. The Archonette, Amicettes and Pearlette youth Auxiliaries helped Kristen Dance into…
Champions Again
The Wossman High School Girls Basketball team are state champions again. The Lady Wildcats topped off a near perfect season by bringing home another championship trophy in recent state competitions. Congratulations to Wildcats for a job well done.
Downtown club security guards arrested for punching, clubbing unruly patron
A violent altercation at a downtown Monroe club led to the arrest of two security guards on charges of battery early Sunday morning. At 1:41 a.m. on Sunday, March 3, 2024. Monroe Police Department’s Pfc N. Shepherd, who was on…
Haynes arrested in Southside murder-kidnapping incident
On March 4, 2024, Monroe Police Department arrested Kevontay Haynes, a suspect in last month’s murder of a Southside woman. Haynes was charged with first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, and illegal firearm possession. Haynes, a convicted felon, was implicated in a…
Lampley found guilty of 2019 Heckard murder
After a week-long trial at the Ouachita Parish Courthouse, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict in the case of State of Louisiana v. Charles Ray Lampley. On Friday afternoon, Lampley was found guilty of second-degree murder and possession of…