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CAMEOS OF MINDEN Morris Busby: Dedicated educator PAGE 3 MINDEN RESS ERALD P -H www.press-herald.com October 21, 2015 | 50 Cents WEDNESDAY INSIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MINDEN CRIME today Woman Chamber recognizes helps ‘15 Under 40’ recipients brother hide gun, North Webster arrested Knights playing on TV Thursday Police say weapon used in attempted PG. 6 SPORTS murder case MICHELLE BATES [email protected] A Minden woman was arrested after police say she helped her brother hide a gun used in an attempted murder case. Sedricka D. Adams, 20, of the 800 block of Fincher Road, was arrested Monday, Oct. 12, and charged with a c c e s s o r y Robinson named after the fact Glenbrook student to attempted s e c o n d of the month degree mur- der. Her PG.5 bond was set LIFE at $5,000. ADAMS The Minden-South Webster Chamber of Commerce hosted it’s fifth annual ‘15 Under 40’ - sponsored by Chamber Champion TG Companies - banquet Tuesday evening at the Minden Civic Center. Webster Parish native Zazell M i n d e n Dubley spoke during the banquet while attendees enjoyed a meal catered by Roma Italian Bistro. Honorees police chief Steve Cropper included Kelli Carter, Minden High School; Kagnee Veitch, United Way of NWLA; Clint Smith, Minden Police says a 16-year-old juvenile Department; Tessa Cay Bryant, J.A. Phillips Middle School; LaTashia Upton, MD, The Women’s Clinic; Kenny was walking d own the street Balkom, Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries; Kelli Carter, Minden High School; Kagnee Veitch, United and a confrontation ensued Way of NWLA; Clint Smith, Minden Police Department; Tessa Cay Bryant, J.A. Phillips Middle School; LaTashia with some others who had Upton, MD, The Women’s Clinic; Bridget Bridges, Doyline High School; Kelly Copeland Paul, Minden Medical Cen- their vehicles parked in the ter; Shaun Lewis, Fibrebond Corporation; Leslie Williams Utley, Minden High School; and Mary Helen Simms, The street. Coordinating & Development Corporation. Tessa Cay Bryant was also named the 2015 young professional of the “This young man is a juve- nile, and made a statement year. Bruce Franklin/Press-Herald that he was going to kill one of the guys standing next to the car, pulls a gun out and shoots at him three times,” he said. “Two of the bullets Letter to the editor: struck the vehicle he was About Henry SeeGUN, Page 2 Burns OPINION PG.4 BALKOM BRIDGES BRYANT WEBSTER CRIME WEATHER Man TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK arrested CARTER FOX LEWIS MCCLARAN PAUL SHEPPARD for drug trafficking 88 65 MICHELLE BATES HIGH LOW [email protected] Partly cloudy. SPRINGHILL — A SIMMS SMITH UPTON UTLEY VEITCH WIMBERLY Springhill man who went to Winds SE at court found himself under 5 to 10 mph. arrest for distribution charges. AROUND THE STATE Yamon D’vork Thomas, CONNECT WITH US 44, of the 500 @mindenph block of Springbranch Louisiana unemployment rate falls Road in Springhill, was charged ASSOCIATED PRESS September, remaining below Louisiana's unemploy- adjusted to cancel out sea- September 2014's 6.9 per- ment rate remained above sonal changes — were with distribu- cent rate. the national average of 5.1 released Tuesday by the U.S. tion of a NEW ORLEANS — Schedule II The number of people percent. Labor Department. Louisiana's labor market was reporting having a job fell for A separate survey shows CDS. Bond THOMAS Vol. 47 No. 78 The number of unem- flat in September, with the fourth straight month. Louisiana payrolls fell 500 was set at unemployment and payrolls Unemployment stayed level from August to September, ployed Louisianans fell to $50,000. holding level. because 15,000 people left but remained slightly above 129,000, down slightly from According to the police The jobless rate stayed at the labor force, continuing a last September's level. August and 21,000 lower 6 percent from August to trend that began in June. Both sets of figures — than last year. SeeTHOMAS, Page 2 2 Wednesday, October 21, 2015 – Minden Press-Herald SECONDwww.press-herald.com FRONT RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE As Webb exits, Chafee, Santorum HIGHERCentenary EDUCATION College’s president leaving and others hold to ‘16 dream SHREVEPORT — Cen- exciting set of learning and tenary College in Shreve- growth challenges for me." port soon will be looking Lake Highland Prepara- LAURIE KELLMAN require a miracle. major GOP presidential can- recent three months. for new leadership. tory School serves 2,000, In no particular order, didates. Pataki, 70, also is stuck Centenary President, pre-K through 12th grade Associated Press here's a look at the other can- Jindal, 44, released a with no measurable support Dr. David Rowe, students. didates who you may have book Tuesday, "American in this week's preference announced Tuesday in a Rowe was Centenary's WASHINGTON — Their forgotten are running for Will," which he said is meant polls. He told the Concord news release that he is 30th president and he fundraising power is waning president — those who have as a "call to arms" for conser- Monitor in New Hampshire leaving next year to lead helped develop the schools' — if they ever had it. Their demonstrated a sustained vatives and last week that he prefers to Lake Highland Preparatory support in preference polls inability to raise cash or rise an effort to focus on things he can con- School in Orlando, Florida. Centenary in Paris pro- couldn't drop much lower. beyond the low single digits revive his trol, and remains optimistic He will remain at Cente- gram and its "Do More in Some don't get invited to the in national polls. s t r u g g l i n g because of his bipartisan nary through July 1, 2016. Four" program which debates in prime-time. Those They're still in it to win it, c a m p a i g n . record as governor. In a message to the encourages students to that do get asked afterward, hoping to win the favor of a The book campus, Rowe said leading earn a Bachelor's degree on live television, when they major donor or catch fire in retells the REPUBLICAN in a "different educational and Master's degree within plan to quit. an upcoming "undercard" story of his RICK SANTORUM sector" poses a "new and four years at no extra cost. The first of these longshot debate. c o n v e r s i o n The former U.S. senator candidates for president At a time when the top from Hin- JINDAL from Pennsylvania, who lost dropped out of the 2016 race candidates in each party have duism to his bid for re-election in Port of Iberia companies on Tuesday, when former been able to raise at least Catholicism 2006, saw the $608,000 he Virginia Sen. Jim Webb — eight figures each fundrais- as a teenager and describes had collected by June 30 who entered the race with an ing quarter, the following the religious beliefs he's drop to $390,000 over the to hire new workers email — told reporters he candidates haven't cracked made a cornerstone of his following three months. was withdrawing. $1 million. campaign. Santorum, 57, registers at Surrounded by campaign 2 percent in one of this NEW IBERIA — Two ic is testing welders at its signs, Webb insisted he's not REPUBLICAN REPUBLICAN week's new polls and at 0 fabrication companies say east yard at the Port of necessarily out. He said he BOBBY JINDAL GEORGE PATAKI percent in the others. 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A favorite among The Advocate reports ponents will be barged to shot campaign for the Demo- $255,000 in the second and barely registers in conservatives, Santorum Dynamic Energy Services Lake Charles. cratic nomination into a quarter of the year to national polls out this week won nominating contests in International President Dynamic's second proj- $154,000 over the most presidential quest that would among the 15 remaining 11 states in the 2012. Emile Dumesnil told port ect will be piping for the officials Tuesday that Sasol deepwater Shell Appomat- Ltd. has awarded Dynamic tox project. someone that could be with he’d used the night before to shooting itself. fabrication parts of its $8 RamFab, a company him for his well-being,” he try to shoot this guy,” the Adams was placed under billion ethane cracker new to the Port of Iberia, GUN said. “They couldn’t make chief said. “Investigators arrest by Capts. Dan Weaver project being built in Lake also has been awarded part Continued from page 1 contact with his mother, so made contact with the juve- and Marvin Garrett and Offi- Charles. of the Sasol ethane cracker his sister comes with him, nile and his sister again, and cer First Class Ben Allen. Dumesnil says Dynam- project. standing next to and the Ms. Sedricka Adams.