The Monroe Housing Authority has launched a plan to change a crime-infested section of South Monroe into a safe, drug-free community of homeowners. It secured millions of dollars in grants, purchased abandoned houses once used by drug dealers, and erected…
The police chief of Richwood has been arrested for domestic violence in another parish and is a suspect in another violent behavior complaint, but he remains in charge of the Richwood police department, a fact which has caused a rift…
Graveside funeral services were held last week for a prominent retired educator and churchwoman, Barbara Johnson Bowie. Mrs. Bowie spent most of her adult life working in the churches of Shreveport and Monroe and helping children in the public school…
Funeral services are pending for a well-known musician who passed Tuesday. Services are incomplete for local church and Jazz musician Michael Jackson, 45, who died Tuesday, December 8, 2020. He was well known in church music circles having served as…
A local man and his family are homeless today after a fire razed his Tanglewood Drive home early Sunday morning. Tyrone WoodFaulk said he and his family barely escaped injury early Sunday morning when a blaze that sparked from their…
The Ellis administration is tight-lipped about the firing of former interim police chief Reggie Brown. Informed police sources, told the Free Press that Brown was fired last week after he refused to resign. Brown was interim police chief in the…
Michelli Martin, communications director for the city of Monroe, has made a personal appeal to the public concerning an increase of hand wipes showing up in city sewer lines. Martin says, hand wipes, unlike toilet paper, do not disintegrate and…
