Delta, Louisiana

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• Capricorn hair care specialist becomes America's first millionairess
  

  Many women before and after the American Civil War were rich beyond their wildest dreams.

• Lottery thriving, casinos slumping
  

  The poor economy in Mississippi and nationwide has more and more people holding on to their hard earned cash rather than going out to eat or shopping.

• No December duck numbers
  

  BATON ROUGE - It took a perfect storm - a convergence of seemingly unrelated happenings - to keep Larry Reynolds and the State Waterfowl Study group from their appointed rounds.

• Louisiana Baptist Convention News
  

  From its northernmost point in Newellton to just south of Vidalia, the Delta Baptist Association stretches for nearly 40 miles along the Mississippi River delta.

• Summit shows challenges of river region
  

  In just two years, the United States will have more jobs than workers to fill them, producing tremendous challenges and opportunities for the economically distressed Mississippi River Delta.

• Agency policies hinder restoration work
  

  BATON ROUGE - While conservationists battle to save valuable coastal marshes and barrier islands, they're running into conflicting laws and agency policies that make the job harder.

• Restoring the holiday faith
  

  One reason Polly McKaskle helped the Salvation Army this Thanksgiving has to do with tornados, 37 years in the past.

• Portion of I-20 to close on Dec. 1
  

  DELTA - The eastbound outside lane of Interstate 20 over the Mississippi River Bridge will be temporarily closed on Dec.

• Bond sale frees Delta to begin work
  

  Bonds to fund construction of the new Louisiana Delta Community College sold shortly after they went on sale late last week.

• Delta quickly took hold
  

  Few things have taken hold in these parts as spontaneously as Louisiana Delta Community College.

• Bridge gap to help schools
  

  Eight school systems in northern Louisiana rank among the bottom 20 in performance scores released Friday by the state Department of Education.

• Leaders discuss impact of poverty on education
  

  In Louisiana, about 28 percent of children are living in poverty. In the northeastern Delta, that number reaches nearly 70 percent.

• Delta looks for full accreditation
  

  Louisiana Delta Community College could become fully accredited with a positive finding by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

• Read
  

  'Upwards of 25,000 children die from hunger or hunger-related causes every single day, somewhere in the world,' according to materials produced by the Louisiana Baptist Agricultural Missions Fellowship.

• Agreement reached allowing Delta students to transfer credits to ULM
  

  University of Louisiana at Monroe President James Cofer and Delta Community College Chancellor Luke Robbins signed an agreement this morning that officially allows Delta students to transfer class credits for ...

• Easy 5 captured by Delta ticket
  

  An Easy 5 ticket sold in Delta matched all five numbers in Wednesday night's drawing and captured the $60,000 jackpot, state lottery officials said.

• Delta announces new workforce training program
  

  Business is good at Gardner Denver Thomas' plant in the Monroe Air Industrial Park, but it could be better.

• Smithsonian American music exhibit to visit Ferriday
  

  A major traveling Smithsonian exhibition on the roots of American music opens Oct.

• Outdoors Notebook: Squirrel season kicks off hunting activities for 2008
  

  What can we expect this coming weekend? As for lands open to the public in this area, Thistlethwaite Wildlife Management Area just north of Washington has historically provided the best odds at gray 'cat' ...

City Description

Delta is a village in Madison Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 239 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Tallulah Micropolitan Statistical Area. As the birthplace of Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a millionaire by her own business achievements, it has been included as one of 26 featured sites on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. Delta is located at 32°19′17″N 90°56′12″W / 32.32139, -90.93667 (32.321342, -90.936544). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 8.1 km² (3.1 mi²). 7.7 km² (3.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (4.81%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 239 people, 101 households, and 62 families residing in the village. The population density was 31.0/km² (80.2/mi²). There were 111 housing units at an average density of 14.4/km² (37.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the village was 94.98% White, 2.51% African American, 0.42% Native American, 0.42% from other races, and 1.67% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.35% of the population. There were 101 households out of which 32.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.5% were

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• Madison Parish
• Louisiana

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