Category: News

  • National report highlights Louisiana’s progress in closing the K-12 digital divide

    National report highlights Louisiana’s progress in closing the K-12 digital divide

    Baton Rouge — Gov. John Bel Edwards today announced that 100 percent of K-12 students in Louisiana now have access to high-speed broadband on par with the Federal Communications Commission’s minimum bandwidth goal of 100 kbps per student, which ensures expanded opportunities for teaching and learning in Louisiana’s classrooms. “If we expect our children to…

  • Troop G locates double homicide suspect

    Troop G locates double homicide suspect

    Webster – A traffic stop Tuesday afternoon has led to the arrest of a double homicide suspect from Alabama.    On October 22, 2019, Louisiana State Police was advised to be on the lookout for a 2019 Kia Optima that was possibly being driven by 48-year-old Aaron Gess.  Gess was wanted by the Alabama Bureau…

  • More choices and stable premiums for ‘Obamacare’ next year

    More choices and stable premiums for ‘Obamacare’ next year

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers will have more health insurance choices next year under the much-debated Obama health care law and premiums will dip slightly for many, the Trump administration announced Tuesday. President Donald Trump was elected on a promise to repeal “Obamacare.” But despite his repeated efforts the program has stabilized three years into his…

  • Shreveport man arrested for human trafficking

    Shreveport man arrested for human trafficking

    Bossier- Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington says a Shreveport man has been arrested for human trafficking following a months-long investigation that stemmed from a prostitution arrest back in May. Demarkeo D. Foster, 31, of the 1400 block of Acorn St. in Shreveport, was arrested in Shreveport Monday afternoon on a human trafficking arrest warrant and taken…

  • Learning skills for the 21st century

    Learning skills for the 21st century

    Project Reclaim teaches kids about website design with new Chromebooks The members of Project Reclaim are all set to start their web design classes after receiving 15 new Chromebooks this Saturday at the Minden Housing Authority.  The idea to start having web design classes at Project Reclaim came when Ron Anderson, Director of Project Reclaim,…

  • Flu season is upon us: helpful tips to prevent spreading

    Flu season is upon us: helpful tips to prevent spreading

    With October nearly ending flu season draws closer and closer, and given our past two flu seasons being worse than the years before, it’s best to get flu vaccines earlier rather than later. Flu is one of medicine’s most unpredictable foes. When asked why people should get the flu vaccine, local pediatrician Dr. Elizabeth Phillips…

  • Louisiana moving forward with industrial hemp program

    Louisiana moving forward with industrial hemp program

    David Jacobs The Center Square Louisiana officials hope the federal government will approve the state’s industrial hemp program by Jan. 1 so they can begin issuing licenses. If all goes according to plan, Louisiana farmers will begin planting the new crop this spring. Though the federal government is not expected to issue its rules until…

  • Echo: Robert Floyd Kennon

    Echo: Robert Floyd Kennon

    I have often been asked why Minden has no visible signs to recognize us as the hometown of Governor Robert Floyd Kennon. It isn’t as if every community in Louisiana can lay claim to a governor as a native son. Since statehood, forty-three men and one woman have been elected governor of Louisiana. (Thirteen other…

  • Edwards seeks Louisiana runoff support from Abraham voters

    Edwards seeks Louisiana runoff support from Abraham voters

    BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards is targeting his new advertising for northeast and central Louisiana, trying to attract support from voters still bristling over intraparty Republican fighting that lambasted their local congressman. The Deep South’s only Democratic governor released a new TV ad Monday for the Monroe and Alexandria regions, highlighting…

  • Minden Weekend Roundup

    Minden Weekend Roundup

    Will Phillips Minden Press-Herald  Minden was busy this weekend with a variety of events taking place all over town, such as the Highway 80 Sale, the Minden Maker’s Fair, and the 5th Annual Louisiana Jet Rally.  Countless antique shops and thrift stores took part in the bi-annual Highway 80 Sale this weekend, most setting up…