Voters rejected a proposal to change the chief of police position from elected to appointed.

AVOYELLES PARISH, La. (KLFY) – 5 women who escaped from a jail facility in Avoyelles Parish have been recaptured while 2 remained wanted. According to the Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Office (APSO), the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of Jerome Stevenson's family and others pray at a Dec. 29 news conference about the 26-year-old's death while in custody ...

Avoyelles Parish Public Schools contains 10 schools and 5,007 students. The district’s minority enrollment is 50%. Also, 63.1% of students are economically disadvantaged. The student body at the ...

MARKSVILLE, La. (KLFY) — Eleven inmates at an Avoyelles Parish detention center allegedly forced their way through a cell door Friday morning to escape a lockdown cell, according to the Avoyelles ...

Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy Brandon Spillman’s professional certification was in revoked status last year at the time he placed Armando Frank in a neck hold that contributed to Frank's ...

The son of longtime Avoyelles Parish District Attorney Charles Riddle III has been booked in St. Tammany Parish on counts of possessing counterfeit money and damaging a hotel room where he was staying ...

MARKSVILLE — The Louisiana Attorney General's Office can ask 12th Judicial District Court Judge William Bennett to reverse his May decision removing the Avoyelles Parish District Attorney's Office ...

Longtime Avoyelles Parish Sheriff Bill Belt and his wife have been indicted on federal charges they had an hidden interest in providing inmate phone services at the jails he operated. In some cases, ...

Three men have been charged in connection to the jail beating and death of an Avoyelles Parish inmate. The Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office announced the arrests in the Nov. 4 beating and death two ...