Minden News

The city of Minden is considering a substantial pay raise for its police and firefighters.

Minden Police are looking for a man. He's not in trouble; officers are trying to determine whether he is alive.

Minden police say they're frustrated by a case involving human body parts that were found in a drainage ditch last month.

The Humana Fourth of July Senior Citizen Fan Giveaway is scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon Thursday at several Wal-Mart stores.

Looking over the Webster Parish landscape on a sunny summer day, one might get the impression Bayou Dorcheat is nothing more than a narrow lake bounded by the gnarled knees of cypress trees.

Parts of a body found in a creek in Minden last week are those of a man, a medical examiner has concluded.

Municipal officials in this area will gather here Thursday, June 26, to learn how this year's special and regular legislative sessions have impacted the state's towns and cities.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development considered bids totaling more than $62 million at its May 28 public bid opening.

The National Weather Service Doppler Radar in Shreveport indicates a 65-mile wide area of scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms extending to the north from Oak Grove to near Ruston, Minden and Avinger, ...

A few Ark-La-Tex children made a deadly discovery. Minden Police detectives say the kids found a human leg while fishing in a creek.

MINDEN - A 4-year-old contract setting the per diem rate for parish prisoners at Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center that expires June 30 has put the sheriff and police jurors at the negotiation table.

Ma Wrench, who will be honored by Soundview Health Center this week, shows off T-shirt that says, "It's a sin to look this good at 102." They call her "Ma" Wrench, and she is an elegant grandmotherly type.

MINDEN -- Land leases, road closures and condemned properties are high on Tuesday's agenda of the Webster Parish Police Jury meeting.

NATCHITOCHES - Just before his trial was set to begin, a Natchitoches man pleaded guilty to drug charges this week.

A 16-year-old girl was killed when the four-wheeler she was riding on rolled over on top of her.

' Promise Hospital of MissLou is promising to be more centrally located with its new $16 million long-term acute care hospital in Vidalia, near the Louisiana/Mississippi border.

A Minden, Louisiana man is accused of stealing some serious money from some local businesses.

With one year of experience in her current position at HBW Insurance & Financial Services, Inc., Ms. via Press Release News From 24-7 Press Re...

“So it was pretty productive night”

HOMER - About 450 cars passed through the Claiborne Parish sheriff's DWI checkpoint during a 31 2-hour span Friday night, with two drivers being arrested on driving while intoxicated charges, Sheriff Ken Bailey ... via The Shreveport Times

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne P. Joiner of Monroe, La. are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Andrea Lea Joiner, to Joseph Wesley Hamm, son of Mr. via News-Star