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West Monroe is a city in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States.

It is situated on the Ouachita River, across from the neighboring city of Monroe.

The two cities are often referred to as the Twin Cities of northeast Louisiana.

Its population was 13,065 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Monroe Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The mayor, Dave Norris, a Democrat, has served since July 1, 1978, and was unopposed for a tenth term in the municipal election in 2014.

Monroe (historically) is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

it is the parish seat of Ouachita Parish.

In the official 2010 census, Monroe had a population of 48,815.

The municipal population declined by 8.1 percent over the past decade; it was 53,107 in the 2000 census.

After a recheck in 2012, the Census Bureau changed the 2010 population from 48,815 to 49,147.

Mayor Jamie Mayo, however, maintains that the Monroe population is more than 50,000 and indicated that he will pursue a continued challenge to the count.

The News-Star is the principal newspaper of Monroe and northeastern Louisiana.

Its circulation area ranges over some dozen parishes from Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish, on the west, to Tallulah in Madison Parish on the east, to the Arkansas state line on the north, and to Ferriday in Concordia Parish on the south.

The newspaper is a Gannett Company publication.

A newspaper is a serial publication containing news about current events, other informative articles about politics, sports, arts, and so on, and advertising.

A newspaper is usually, but not exclusively, printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint.

The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers.

As of 2017, most newspapers are now published online as well as in print.

The online versions are called online newspapers or news websites.

Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly.

News magazines are also weekly, but they have a magazine format.

General-interest newspapers typically publish news articles and feature articles on national and international news as well as local news.

The news includes political events and personalities, business and finance, crime, weather, and natural disasters; health and medicine, science, and computers and technology; sports; and entertainment, society, food and cooking, clothing and home fashion, and the arts.

Infotainment is a neologistic portmanteau of information and entertainment, referring to a type of media which provides a combination of information and entertainment.

The term can also refer to the hardware/software products and systems which are built into, or can be added to vehicles in order to enhance driver and/or passenger experience.

According to many dictionaries, infotainment is always television, and the term is "mainly disapproving".

However, many self-described infotainment websites exist, which provide a variety of functions and services, many of which include the several increasingly popular social media websites and applications being used daily by billions of users worldwide.