Central City News

 The governing body of the Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish on Tuesday unanimously voted to support a resolution condemning President Joe Biden and calling for his impeachment.  The resolution came after a raid by the FBI on the home of former President Donald Trump.   The raid was cited by the resolution as […]

EDITOR’S NOTE – Rev. Tony Spell was exonerated from the criminal charges against him May 13 when the Louisiana Supreme Court found that Gov. John Bel Edwards’ efforts to close churches and limit church attendance were “illegal” and “unconstitutional.”  All criminal charges against the pastor of Life Tabernacle in Central for holding church were dismissed. […]

A law enforcement action like this against a former president has never occurred before.  It will be construed by millions of Americans as President Biden’s desperate deployment of the power of the federal government to damage his likely 2024 opponent who now leads him in national election polls. This past Monday, the FBI, in an unannounced […]

For the second straight year, the Central City News has been named Newspaper of the Year by the Louisiana Press Association. The Central City News brought home eight 1st place and many 2nd and 3rd place awards in competition with community newspapers across Louisiana in the annual Better Newspaper Contest. The contest includes categories for […]

 Scott Sherwin had his first conflict with Life Tabernacle Church in 2006 shortly after the church opened across from his house on Hooper Road. Sherwin started harassing 78-year-old Dorothy Spell, the wife of then-pastor Rev. B. A. Spell. Mrs. Spell was in poor health and recovering from major surgery.  According to Mrs. Spell who is […]

Friday the 13th of March 2020 was the day Gov. John Bel Edwards declared an emergency and began to rule by decree. One of his first acts was ordering churches to close.  At the same time, he kept the big box stores, liquor stores, and abortion clinics open. Gov. Edwards ran into immediate opposition from Pastor Tony Spell of […]

BATON ROUGE – Sen. Bodi White (R-Central) has been rising through the ranks of the Louisiana Legislature, first as a member of the House, then the Senate, and now as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which has considerable control over the state budget and the capital outlay program. Now in the last two years […]

CENTRAL — For three months in 2020, a deeply disturbed individual named Trey Bennett stationed himself in front of Life Tabernacle and aggressively cursed the ladies of the church and used vulgar hand gestures. Police in Central were more concerned with protecting his First Amendment right to curse the congregation than to protect the congregation’s […]

FAIRNESS IN SPORTS  SB44 by Sen. Mizell FOR Fairness in Womens Sports Act – Prohibits males from competing in female sports.   RIGHT TO LIFE  SB342 by Sen. Jackson FOR  Protect Babies if Supreme Court Returns Authority to States to Regulate or Prohibit Abortion   SB104 by Sen. Mizell FOR  Telephone access in outpatient abortion […]

In the 2022 regular session of the Louisiana Legislature, thanks to the leading efforts of Senator Bodi White, the legislature approved over $75 million worth of projects for Central and with other parish projects in our area, the total goes up to over $111 million.  The projects are as follows: Roadwork. Hooper Road extension Planning […]