Avoyelles bashes Bunkie in annual 'A-B' Game, 42-7
{This article is about two of the parish's three football-playing schools.
{This article is about two of the parish's three football-playing schools.
There was a “silent protest” on Fort DeRussy Road outside of Marksville this past summer with someone -- probably a neighbor or frequent traveler of that road -- erecting a sign at a state-owned h
Mayor Travis Franks and Police Chief Kenneth Smith have butted heads a few times during their terms in office, but both men have always been able to shake hands at the end of the tiff and resume a
There are few acts of violence that stir up emotions quicker and more intensely than an attempt to harm an infant.
Fire trucks, police cars and motorcycles, ambulances and other emergency response vehicles pass under a large U.S. flag suspended over La. Hwy 1 in Marksville shortly after noon today to remember those killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 in New York City, Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania where passengers died after the hijackers crashed the plane when passengers were taking it back to prevent another attack that would have claimed hundreds more lives. {Photo by Raymond L. Daye}
Units from every fire, police and emergency response agency in Avoyelles Parish drove past every school to commemorate what is now called Patriots Day and to remember the civilians, military person