May, 2025

• 14 May

  CHURCH NEWS

  Antioch Baptist Church3501 Hwy 828Farmerville318-368-3591Early Worship – 8:30 a.m.Sunday School – 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.Bethel Temple PentecostalChurch2144 Hwy 33 N.MarionSunday School -11 a.m.Sunday Worship -12 p.m.318-608-6766Canaan Baptist Church502 Canaan Church Rd.SpearsvilleSunday School -10amSunday Worship -11am870-312-3440Bro. Brian WilliamsConway BaptistChurch Homecoming4323 HWY 549North of FarmervilleDean Baptist Church2309 Hwy 827MarionSunday School – 9:45 a.m.Sunday Worship – 11 a.m.Wed. 6:30pm318-292-4463Mother’s Day is …

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• 14 May

  Shreveport Police Department Investigation

  Shreveport – This evening,at approximately 8:00 p.m., Detectiveswith the Louisiana StatePolice Bureau of Investigationswere requested by the ShreveportPolice Department to investigatean officer-involved shootingthat occurred on Yancey Placein Shreveport. Investigators areworking to process the scene andgather further information.One subject was shot and hasbeen pronounced dead. No officerswere harmed during theincident. This is an active investigation;further informationwill be released when it becomesavailable.

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• 14 May

  Two Injured, One Killed in Jackson Parish Crash

  Vernon – On Sunday, May 11, 2025, shortlybefore 12:00 p.m., Troopers with Louisiana StatePolice Troop F began investigating a two-vehiclecrash on Riser Road just north of LA Highway 148.The crash claimed the life of 26-year-old TayvionneTate of Jonesboro.The preliminary investigation revealed thata 2015 Chevrolet Malibu, driven by 25-year-oldJanihajious Phillips, was traveling north on RiserRoad. At the same time, a 2024 …

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• 14 May

  Mother’s Day Carjacking Rallies Public

  On May 11, 2025, at 11pm, the Farmerville Police Departmentwould make a Facebook post alerting the public about two stolenvehicles, and several more that had been burglarized, in the earlyhours of the morning.“Two stolen vehicles were retrieved soon after the suspectscrashed one, prompting them to leave the other behind when amotion light activated. The wrecker retrieved both vehicles, andthe police …

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• 7 May

  Squirrel hunting in spring not the same

  Since I was a little bitty kid, squirrel hunting washigh on my list of fun things to do. Following alongbehind my dad, careful not to step on dry sticks orbig brown leaves, I watched him as he sneaked upon a feeding squirrel.Observing the way he did it, sneakingup behind a big tree to conceal his movements,he would get the squirrel …

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• 7 May

  Tony Gray Nolan

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• 7 May

  Museums – Protectors of our heritage

  Several years ago it was announced about the executionof a Syrian archeologist, historian and curator of oneof the most spectacular archeological sites in the MiddleEast. ISIS took this eighty-one year old scholar to thecity square of Palmyra and during the busiest time of theday ISIS decapitated him. His headless bodywas hung from a pole in town. His crime wasspending his …

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• 7 May

  Jim Brown – Time to Retire!

  What’s the saying? All good things must come to anend? We experience a number of “lasts.” In the secularworld, I recall The Last Picture Show, the Last of the Mohicans,The Last Samurai. In the religious world, Christianitysays there are four last things: death,judgment, heaven and hell. We give the dyingfaithful last rites, and we recall the Last Supper.Taverns have a …

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• 7 May

  CHURCH NEWS

  Antioch Baptist Church3501 Hwy 828Farmerville318-368-3591Early Worship – 8:30 a.m.Sunday School – 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.Bethel Temple PentecostalChurch2144 Hwy 33 N.MarionSunday School -11 a.m.Sunday Worship -12 p.m.318-608-6766Canaan Baptist Church502 Canaan Church Rd.SpearsvilleSunday School -10amSunday Worship -11am870-312-3440Bro. Brian WilliamsConway BaptistChurch Homecoming4323 HWY 549North of FarmervilleDean Baptist Church2309 Hwy 827MarionSunday School – 9:45 a.m.Sunday Worship – 11 a.m.Wed. 6:30pm318-292-4463Sunday was Children …

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• 7 May

  CNA Pinning Ceremony

  Union Parish High School is proud to announcethe graduation of its first class of Certified NursingAssistants. These seniors recently completeda state-approved training course and successfullypassed a certification exam that included both awritten section and a hands-on skills assessment.This course was offered through dual enrollmentat Louisiana Delta Community College’s RustonCampus, allowing these young women to beginworking immediately to help address the …

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