Over the last eleven days, three adults and four children have lost their lives in six different fires across the state. The State Fire Marshal says many of these deaths have been attributed to a lack of fire alarms. Agency spokesperson, Ashley Rodrigue says in the event of an emergency, a smoke alarm can be vital.
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A Buckeye elementary school teacher has been arrested for possession of alcohol on public school property after an assistant principal noticed she was displaying odd behavior. Captain Tommy Carnline, with the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s office says upon investigating the teacher’s classroom, they found a partially consumed bag of wine.
Carnline says the teacher didn’t state why she had decided to indulge in an adult beverage while on campus.
Hit songwriter and guitarist Tony Joe White from West Carroll Parish has died suddenly at the age of 75 from a heart attack. White was born on a cotton farm near Oak Grove and is best known for writing the 1969 hit “Polk Salad Annie” and “Rainy Night in Georgia.” Oak Grove native Harriet Monroe Miller says White would often come back to his hometown
Five years after Polk Salad Annie came out, White released Saturday Nite in Oak Grove, Louisiana. Miller says White also wrote a couple of hit songs for Tina Turner and worked with the King of Rock Elvis Presley
Miller describes White as a kind and caring man, when he wasn’t writing country and blues songs.