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Monroe, Louisiana. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Ouachita. Associated ZIP codes: 71201, 71202, 71203, 71207, 71209, 71210, 71211, 71212, 71213, 71217.
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Ohio senior Antonicia Moultrie (11) drives to the hoop during the Bobcats' 57-46 home win over Louisiana Monroe in the MAC-SBC Challenge on Monday night in t...
Brody Duncan’s first big hit for the Mid-South Monarchs wasn’t a goal, but landing the team’s first punch during their match against the Monroe Moccasi...
Governor Jeff Landry visited Monroe, Louisiana, Monday to announce $3.5 billion in funding for projects aimed at improving rural communities.
The Louisiana Supreme Court exonerated former death row inmate Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, but Monroe prosecutors are still pursuing the case 33 years later....
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is seeking to join a lawsuit against the NCAA on behalf of a University of Louisiana at Monroe player.
Discover the top reasons to plan a getaway this fall in Monroe-West Monroe, from new outdoor experiences and delicious cuisine to unique festivals and histor...
Hartnell utility player Emmet Desmond is headed to the University of Louisiana Monroe on a baseball scholarship
Senate Bill 121, authored by Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, creates 5 majority-Republican districts and 1 majority-Democratic district.
The new Meta AI data center being built in Richland Parish has brought a flow of new faces to the Monroe area, driving up business for long-term residents. T...
Many facets of life and business have been shifting in Northeast Louisiana since construction for the new world-class Meta AI data center began in Richland P...
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Court says new, reliable evidence and flaws in the state’s theory undermined the death row conviction
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D.C.-area baseball coach Amaury Monsalve was denied bond by an immigration judge and remains in ICE custody in Louisiana.
James Talarico ran up the score in the Panhandle, while rural Texans living along the Louisiana border stayed home.
The Louisiana Republican privately told staff he is not planning on running for leadership roles after the midterms.
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Monroe is in Ouachita County, Louisiana.
Region: North Louisiana
71201, 71202, 71203, 71207, 71209, 71210, 71211, 71212, 71213, 71217
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D.C.-area baseball coach Amaury Monsalve was denied bond by an immigration judge and remains in ICE custody in Louisiana.
James Talarico ran up the score in the Panhandle, while rural Texans living along the Louisiana border stayed home.
The Louisiana Republican privately told staff he is not planning on running for leadership roles after the midterms.
Monroe's origins go back to Spanish colonial rule, when the Ouachita Valley was thinly settled, mostly by wandering hunters and trappers. In 1781 the Spanish sent Jean Baptiste Filhiol from South Louisiana to oversee the settlement of the Poste du Ouachita, and in 1785 he made Prairie des Canots, now Monroe, its seat of government. At the settlers' request a fort was built in 1791 and named Fort Miro for the Spanish governor, Esteban Miro. It was renamed Monroe to mark the arrival of the first steamboat, the James Monroe, in the spring of 1820.
In 1913 Joseph A. Biedenharn, the first bottler of Coca-Cola, moved to Monroe from Vicksburg, Mississippi, and his home and gardens are now the Biedenharn Museum and Gardens. Collett E. Woolman, the Ouachita Parish agent, originally from Indiana, pioneered crop dusting to fight the boll weevil, which was destroying cotton across the Mississippi Delta, and started the world's first crop-dusting service, using methods developed at the agricultural experiment station. Biedenharn and his son Malcolm were among the founders of the company, first called Delta Dusters and founded at Tallulah, Louisiana, that became Delta Air Lines. The collapse of cotton farming cost many farm jobs and contributed to the Great Migration of the early 20th century. Sources Wikipedia: Monroe, Louisiana
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