Minden News

MINDEN - The Webster Parish Office of Homeland Security is asking property owners who have experienced storm or flood damage to their homes or structures over the past few weeks to start reporting damages beginning Friday.

Maggie Mae Thornton Renfro already holds a distinction that has kept her on the record books for more than a year.

Several matters that crop up often at Webster Parish Convention & Visitors Commission meetings were hashed out in greater detail Tuesday when members gathered for a noon work session.

MINDEN - Dozens of roads throughout the region are closed today because of high water.

MINDEN - Webster sheriff's deputies and local Livestock Brand Commission inspectors are questioning whether a headless calf discovered earlier this month is part of a ritual killing.

Sallie Baker, Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, John Dillinger and a host of ghosts will be joined by hobos, freaks, zombies and aliens as Cultural Crossroads hosts "Moon Over Minden" tonight and Saturday at The Farm.

MINDEN - A weekend insurance checkpoint in Webster resulted in the arrests of two people, one on drug charges, according to information from the parish sheriff's office.

BackAlley Community Theater will present "God and Country," a program of patriotic and gospel music, at 7 p.m. Nov.

MINDEN - Recent heavy rains, broken up with some rays of sunshine, have not slowed down Webster Parish sheriff's investigators, as more than 16 people have been arrested in recent days on charges that include distribution of narcotics, felony carnal knowledge and aggravated burglary, according to a news release.

MINDEN - A new startup company broke ground Tuesday and should begin moving dirt this week for construction of a two-line resin coated proppant facility that will market its product to oil and gas operators in the Haynesville Shale and other natural gas plays across the United States.

The Shreveport Police Department needs the public's help in finding a man who has not been seen since Sept.28. Stanley Hendrick, 49, last was seen getting in a taxi about 3 p.m. that day while leaving a nursing home in the 1500 block of Glen Oak St.

Anne Elizabeth Epperson and Michael Paul Coplen are pleased to announce their engagement and approaching marriage.

"The Grapes of Wrath," which is part of a 21-parish commemoration of the Great Depression, will be shown outdoors tonight at The Farm, 417 E. Union.

Saturday begins the annual Week Without Violence, through Oct. 24, by the YWCA of Northwest Louisiana.

DUBBERLY - The village of Dubberly is not going without fire protection despite an administrative house cleaning that took place Tuesday night within the fire department, fire and village officials assured residents today.

Heavy rains flood northwest Louisiana roads and highways as a warm front moves north from the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast.

This season's final Night for the Museum history program will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

A Minden man has admitted to having sex with an 11-year-old girl for at least a year, Webster sheriff's officials said today.

The Webster parish chief assistant D.A. is out on bond after Bossier City police arrested him on domestic abuse and intimidation charges.

MINDEN - Because of the threat of severe thunderstorms later today, Night Out in Minden has been postponed until Nov.