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WEBSTER CRIME

IT’S COLD PAT CULVERHOUSEpat@press-herald.com

Four teenagers who man-aged to elude authoritiesfrom Sunday afternoon untilMonday morning are now incustody, including one whoallegedly stole a vehicle inSibley and led police on achase through three parishesat speeds which at timesexceeded 100 m.p.h. in thewrong lane of a rain and sleetslickened Interstate 20.

Webster Parish ChiefDeputy Bobby Igo Sr. says thesuspect was captured onlyafter Sheriff Gary Sexton,who had been involved in thepursuit through Webster,Bienville and Lincoln parish-es, used a “PIT maneuver” onthe stolen vehicle to bringthe chase to an end shortlyafter 11:30 a.m.

PIT (precision immobiliza-tion technique) is a pursuittactic by which a pursuingcar can force a fleeing car toabruptly turn sideways, caus-ing the driver to lose controland stop.

Igo says the suspect’s vehi-cle rolled over after the PITmaneuver impact, landingupside down just off thehighway. He showed no signsof injury when taken intocustody, arresting officersconfirmed.

“The suspect got on Inter-state 20 heading east in thewestbound lane and stayedthere until he finally gotstopped about three or fourmiles east of Ruston,” Igosaid. “We firmly believe theweather is the only reasonsomeone wasn’t killed. If ithad been a normal day withthe normal amount of traffic,there could have been atragedy.”

Minden Police Depart-ment officers, who joinedparish deputies in the huntfor the runaways, pursuedthe stolen vehicle from Sibleyonto Interstate 20 around10:54 a.m. At the time, sleetand freezing rain was fallingand temperatures hoveredjust under the freezing mark.

“The road conditions wereterrible,” Igo said. “But offi-cers pursuing the suspectstayed with him.

It was a real example ofagencies assisting one anoth-er. Dispatchers were able togive us almost a play-by-playas the chase continued whilestill giving us reports of acci-dents, which seemed to beoccurring all over the placebecause of the icy condi-tions.”

Igo says two of the fourteenagers were juveniles andwould be sent to the statejuvenile facility. Names of the

BONNIE CULVERHOUSEbonnie@press-herald.com

Temperatures are on the rise today, according to the Nation-al Weather Service, but a wintry mix returns to the forecastlater tonight through Wednesday morning.

“Right now, it looks like Tuesday night could be a repeat per-formance,” meteorologist Joel Martin said. “It’s a problemknowing where the freezing line will be.”

Martin says winter storm forecasts are tricky.“It’s because water freezes at exactly 32 degrees Fahrenheit,”

he said. “It’s often difficult to predict exactly where the freezingboundaries will be at the surface and above us.”

Tuesday morning, City of Minden Public Works DirectorGeorge Rolfe said his crews sanded some streets overnight.

“We did a little bit of sanding on Pennsylvania Avenue,”Rolfe said. “But we don’t do state highways, like Homer Road.DOTD does that.”

Rolfe says the street department has been ready for possibleicy conditions since last week and once the temperature dropsto around 28 degrees Fahrenheit, the street department startsthe sanding process.

Winter swoops south, bringing snow, ice to Webster

Austin Sumner rides down a snowy, icy hill Monday afternoon after winter weather moved into the area. Bruce Franklin/Press-Herald

Snow and ice blanketed Minden Monday after an upper atmos-pheric storm moved through the area. Forecasters say anotherwintery mix may move through Wednesday. Bruce Franklin/Press-Herald

EscapedYCP

cadetscaught

One leads police onhigh-speed chaseacross 3 parishes

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Wintry mix expectedTuesday night

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FIND IT ONLINEView video of Austin Sumner andTracy Lee sliding down the snowyhill at press-herald.com.

two older teens have notbeen released, and thepair is currently being heldat Bayou Dorcheat Correc-tional Center. Charges arepending, Igo said.

Igo says the episodebegan when four malesleft the Camp Minden YCPfacility Sunday and head-ed west into BossierParish. There, police saythey stole a vehicle anddrove east toward Doylinewhere the vehicle crashedand escaped by runninginto a wooded area.

Around 2:15 a.m. Mon-day, the cadets reportedlybroke into a business inDoyline where they wererecorded on the store’ssurveillance system takinga variety of items includ-ing cigarettes and food.Deputies arrived at thescene of the burglary

quickly in response to analarm.

“The four fled to therailroad tracks in Doylineand headed east wherethey stole another vehicleon Mathis Road,” Igo said.“Apparently, an individualhad cranked a car prepar-ing to go to work andthese people came alongat that time. The individ-ual called quickly enoughthat our deputies wereable to get in pursuit ofthe vehicle.”

Deputies pursued thestolen vehicle east on La.Hwy. 164 to the intersec-tion of U.S. Hwy. 371 inSibley. While trying toelude capture, the driverof the stolen vehicleallegedly collided with adeputy’s vehicle and triedunsuccessfully to pushthrough the roadblock.

“They bailed out of thecar headed east along therailroad tracks that runsthrough Sibley,” Igo said.

After avoiding arrest,police say the group man-aged to cross Hwy. 164and headed north throughwooded areas where theywere spotted by residentson two separate occasions.Deputies took to thewoods in pursuit and cap-tured one suspect, thenused a K-9 officer to hunt

down another two. “After we had three of

them in custody, thefourth managed to getaway and stole the vehi-cle,” Igo said. “That madethree vehicles the groupstole while they were onthe run. We don’t know yetwhy they left, but I’venever seen any kids who

have left Camp Minden tryas hard to avoid capture asthis bunch.”

Igo says cooperationbetween the various lawenforcement agenciesfinally brought the episodeto an end.

“I can’t begin to thankall the officers who wereout here,” he said. “Min-

den police units were very

active in helping us, Sib-

ley’s police were assisting,

our reserve deputies were

out and our night shift

worked over. It was a total

effort and every single offi-

cer played a key role in

capturing these people.”

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MICHELLE BATESmichelle@press-herald.com

A California couple gotstranded in Minden afterAmerican Airlines can-celled their flight homeMonday morning.

Sara Hansen and herhusband Garret, were inMinden visiting withcousin Jenny Mourad tocelebrate their uncle’s 90thbirthday in Belcher overthe weekend. Their uncleis W.H. Greene, a decorat-ed World War II veteran.

The Hansens werescheduled to return toLodi, California, Mondaymorning but are still hav-ing a good time with theMourads.

“We’ve had an absoluteblast,” Sara Hansen said.“It’s been great. We haveenjoyed every minute ofbeing here. We had a greatflight in, a great few days,and now we’re just goingto enjoy this weather.”

Hansen says they arescheduled to fly out Tues-day night from Shreveport,but the family has beenseparated. One will gohome via Shreveport, theother from the Monroeairport. As for the weather,they are hoping it clearsup enough by then.

“We’re keeping our fin-gers crossed because weneed to go back to work,”

Sara Hansen said.She and her husband

own a farm where theygrow grapes for GalloWines. They also growtomatoes, beans, walnuts,wheat and alfalfa.

As for having some-thing to do over the week-

end, the Mourads havebeen keeping them busy.Mourad said they’d takenthem on a tour of Mindenand took them to Mon-roe/West Monroe to theDuck Commander ware-house, the site of A&E’s hitshow “Duck Dynasty.”

“We’ve had a great time;lots of food, visiting andreconnecting,” Mouradsaid. “Thankfully the har-vest was over, and theywere able to take sometime off and come for afamily event.”

Icy conditions have

caused several airlines tocancel and rescheduleflights out of Shreveport.American Airlines, the air-line the Hansens werescheduled to fly out withcancelled roughly 1,000flights.

The weather is expected

to deteriorate over the

course of the day, improv-

ing by Tuesday. The high

for Tuesday is 37 with a 30

percent chance of an icy

mix expected, according to

weather officials.

Kris Embree, Garret Hensen, Sara Hansen, dog Ralphie Mourad, Jenny Mourad and Kass Wixom pose for a picture after the Hensen’s flight to Cal-ifornia was canceled Monday due to winter weather. Courtesy Photo

CADETSContinued from page 1

STRANDEDCouple stuck in Minden due to bad weather

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“But, we just don’t seemany problems inside thecity limits with our streets,”he said.

After talking with the

city’s steam plant operatorearly Tuesday, Rolfe saidthere were few calls lastnight, and “to my knowl-edge we didn’t lose any-thing with our power.”

Rolfe says the city expe-riences more problemswith ice on lines and treesthan roads, but there is

nothing the city can do toprepare for it.

“One thing you can do iswatch the pine trees,” hesaid. “If the pine boughsstart sinking, you know iceis forming. Hopefully,that’s not going to hap-pen.”

WEATHERContinued from page 1

BONNIE CULVERHOUSEbonnie@press-herald.com

Months after the open-ing of a $500,000 visitor’scenter in November, theGermantown ColonyMuseum has become thevictim of mid-year budgetcuts handed down fromthe state.

Secretary of State TomSchedler announced lastweek that he will lay off 24full-time employees andreduce hours at museumsunder his control to cope

with his $930,000 portionof the budget cuts.

Meg Casper, spokesper-son for Schedler’s office,says the GermantownColony Museum will openonly one day a week – Sat-urday – as opposed to theformer three days a weekschedule.

“Everybody was treatedthe same – everybody wasreduced by two days,”Casper said. “Only twomuseums were open fivedays a week – the Old StateCapitol in Baton Rouge

and the Louisiana StateExhibit Museum in Shreve-port. They will be cut tothree. All others werealready at three days aweek. They will now beone.”

Cuts and layoffs willtake place April 13.

“In the case of a full-time employee, they arelaid off and then can behired back as a part-timeemployee,” Casper said,explaining that museumemployees are civil serviceand require that approval

before layoffs take place.Germantown Colony

Museum has one part-timeemployee, curator JeanDoerge.

Because so much of theSecretary of State’s spend-ing involves electionexpenses that happenedearlier in the year, Schedlersays he is limited in wherehe can cut.

He said nearly half thespending reduction will besavings from Jindal’s agree-ment to postpone the spe-cial election for a state

education board seat untilOctober when other elec-tions already were sched-uled. Schedler’s plan alsoinvolves eliminating anelections outreach divisionand putting a hiring freezein place for parish regis-trars of voters’ offices.

The remaining $119,000cut involves the museums,forcing the layoffs andreduced hours. Schedlerexpects the cut to be car-ried over into next year,when the state has evendeeper budget problems.

“This will likely be a per-manent change unlesssomething unexpectedhappens during the budgetprocess,” Casper said.

Communities trying tokeep the museums openare being encouraged tooffer ideas.

“Anyone or any groupthat has a specific interestin assisting our museumsor outreach efforts in anyway should step forwardnow,” Schedler said.

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MICHELLE BATESmichelle@press-herald.com

As the Camp Mindendialogue committee’s tech-nical work group met againto hash out more details onhow to choose a methodand company to dispose ofmillions of pounds of M6propellant, some goodnews came their way.

Dialogue committeefacilitator Doug Sarnoannounced as of Mondaymorning, the U.S. Army iswilling to sit at the tableand offer its expertise.Sarno said he hopes tohave them on the next con-ference call Wednesday.

“It was as early as todaythat the Army is on board,”he said. “That’s good newsthat the Army is nowengaged with us, that theywill be on the call Wednes-day and they certainly willbe helping out preparingthese materials, providinginformation and helpingus move forward.”

However, there is stillsome concern about the

trustworthiness of theirexpertise. Dr. Brian Salva-tore, a chemistry professorand dialogue committeemember, said he was con-cerned about the leewaybeing given to the Armynow that they have agreedto come to the table. Healso said they would not bebluffed.

“It sounds like we’regoing to give them a lot ofleeway in getting up tospeed here,” he said. “Iunderstand that they’regoing to be somewhat inthe dark, because they will-ingly did not take part inthese discussions. Howev-er, when they come intothese meetings, they areregarded as the experts.We’re not going to givethem days and weeks tosay, ‘Well, we’re just gather-ing information.’ They’reexpected to come to thesemeetings with experts,with the know-how…TheArmy isn’t going to come inas an interested observer.They’re going to come in asan active participant.”

Frances Kelley, with

Louisiana Progress Actionand dialogue committeemember, also asked if anACWA member would beamong those from theArmy at the table. TheAssembled ChemicalWeapons Alternativesassessment is the processused by the Department ofDefense Explosives Safety

Board to certify alternativetechnologies to dispose ofchemical weapons andother stockpiled munitionsin the 80s.

In answer, Sam Cole-man, representing the EPAon the dialogue commit-tee, said the Army will beproviding experts whohave or are working on this

specific project at CampMinden.

“I would like to still askthat we have one of theACWA program managersbe asked to be available,”Kelley said. “I am con-cerned that these technicalexperts from the EPA thinkof the experts on openburn, open detonation, onincineration, and it justseems like it would be fairthat we would have expertson the advanced treatmenttechnologies providingadvice and the expertise todescribe those technolo-gies and help us have theinformation to evaluatethis technology.”

Kelley said she wouldkeep pushing on this as theexperts are not comingfrom the community, butrather the EPA and theArmy. The community is ata disadvantage because ofthis, she says.

“I’m going to keep push-ing on this so that we arecomfortable with theseexperts to talk about thetechnologies we are inter-ested in learning about,”

she said. “I don’t mean tobe difficult, but I will keepasking the difficult ques-tions.”

Sarno says since theyjust received word thatmorning that they’d bewilling to join the commit-tee, he has no other detailsto offer at this time.

The next hour and a halfwas spent talking about amyriad of issues related tomoving forward in findingan alternative method,including key considera-tions for the analysis andthe focus of the dialoguecommittee.

The next meeting will befrom 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.,Wednesday, Feb. 25. Thetechnical work group willgather again to continuetheir discussions beforemeeting again with the fulldialogue committee onFriday via conference call.

For the Wednesdaymeeting, the public candial in at 1-866-900-8984,conference ID 92058188.On Friday, the conferenceID number will be92058899.

STOP THE BURN RALLYRESCHEDULED FOR MARCH 3

The Stop the Burn Community Rally has beenrescheduled for March 3.Beginning at 7 p.m., the rally is set to take place atthe Minden Civic Center with Lt. Gen. Russel Honore,of the Green Army, as the featured speaker. Comingin from Baton Rouge, Honore has become a voice forthe people of Louisiana to stop toxic waste frombeing dumped in this state.He will encourage the public to keep up the pressureto make sure the millions of pounds of M6 propellantat Camp Minden is disposed of properly.

LOUISIANA BUDgET

CAMP MINDEN CLEANUP

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letter to tHe editor

FOR yEARS, PEOPLE assumed encyclopediashad to be created by professionals. Then Wikipediafounder Jimmy Wales attempted to create an ency-clopedia without central planners.

That sounded like a terrible idea to the old gate-keepers — people who hired experts to carefullyfact-check and edit every encyclopedia entry. Whenthey heard that Wales would crowdsource an ency-clopedia, one Encyclopedia Britannica editorsneered, “The user who visits Wikipedia is a visitorto a public restroom.”

But today research shows thatWikipedia is as accurate as Ency-clopedia Britannica. Wikipedia isnow the sixth most visited web-site, and the hardcover Encyclo-pedia Britannica no longer exists.

“It’s a bit sad in a way,” saysWales. “I love Britannica. But Ilove candles, too, and I surewouldn’t give up my electriclight.”

When I say Wikipedia is crowd-sourced, I mean that millions ofreaders edit the entries. Theirpower to correct things is weighted according to thereputation they acquire from the “crowd.” Withoutbeing paid, this army of amateurs takes pride ofownership. They work hard to keep their entriesaccurate.

After model/actress Anna Nicole Smith died,someone changed her Wikipedia entry to some-thing vulgar. It was fixed within minutes.

The amateur editors specialize, says Wales.“There is a group of people who say, look, we’ve gotall these entries about bridges, we want to makesure they’re all really good, because we love bridges;we’re bridge fanatics. I mean, who knew bridgefanatics exist?”

But they do. So do fanatics who want to getthings right about Roman history, bacteria, spynovels and so on.

That this could be accurate without strict centralplanning is hard to grasp. Even Wales started outthinking that some kind of planner was necessary.He hired a Ph.D. in philosophy to edit a more cen-tralized online encyclopedia, Newpedia. It failed.

But Wikipedia, without a central plan — just afew simple ground rules — flourished.

Wales likens the lesson to economist FriedrichHayek’s insights about why decentralized, free-market decisions are wiser than centralized, social-ist planning: The crowd possesses “local knowl-edge” that experts can’t begin to replicate.

Many of today’s most popular websites —Google, Indiegogo, Facebook — thrive because theygave more control to users than to the founders.They also help users get things done without rely-ing on gatekeepers at publishing houses, main-stream media or colleges.

Defenders of government and central planningoften say that there are some things we just can’tleave to individuals, things that require governmentcentral planning, such as road building. But oftenthat’s not true either.

In Britain, a highway was damaged by heavyrains. The local government promised to repair it.“After three weeks, they said it’s going to be threemonths. After three months, they said a year,”entrepreneur Mike Watts told me.

Mike’s wife then told him he should build theroad. Although he had no road-building experi-ence, he agreed to try. He went to the local pub andpersuaded a farmer to let part of his land be usedfor the project.

Government said it would take a year to rebuildthe road. On TV one bureaucrat said, “you can’t justdo what you want ... (Everything must) conform tohighway standards!”

But Mike built his “private road” in just 12 days.He paid for it by collecting a $3 toll. Drivers cheer-fully paid because Mike’s road saved them so muchtime. (British private toll roads like this are wherewe got the word “turnpike.” Private tollbooth oper-ators would lift a “pike” to let the horses through.)

After Mike started giving interviews about thesuccess of his road, the local government gotembarrassed and quickly finished work on its road.Mike had to shut down. He at least managed tobreak even.

Both he and Wikipedia are reminders thathuman beings can still do great things, big andsmall, when they stop waiting for permission fromabove.

John Stossel is host of “Stossel” on Fox News andauthor of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails,but Individuals Succeed.”

Reduce bloated government

The bloat of government needs tobe reduced and a good place to start isthe Department of Homeland Securi-ty.

The weeping, moaning, threats,and fear-mongering coming fromWashington about funding DHS aremerely political theater designed toscare politicians into keeping this lessthan worthless department going andgrowing. DHS has become a readilyaccessible lobby to badger Congresswith claims that public safety is at riskunless DHS spending is increased inevery federal budget.

Before there was a homeland secu-rity department sheriffs, police chiefs,mayors, fire departments, etc. han-dled the essential government func-tion of local security. They are stillcapable of doing so without a DHS.

Grants for local public safetyequipment are also no reason forDHS's continuing existence. Withouta federal DHS there would still be twofederal programs to help local lawenforcement get equipment. Alsothree U. S. government departmentsgive resources to local police depart-ments.

The DHS, a knee-jerk reaction to9/11, was supposed to eliminateduplicative internal security efforts

and coordinate them. It hasn't.Instead DHS has politically muddledthe mission of Immigration and Cus-toms Enforcement (ICE), thus helpingPresident Obama thwart immigrationcontrol and bordersecurity.

Disgusted anddemoralized bordercontrol profession-als are pleading forDHS to stop theirpolitical interfer-ence and allowthem to do theirborder security jobs.

Further evidenceof DHS's wastedexistence is the fed-eral DHS reportissued Friday, Feb. 20. DHS insinuatesthat the American political right con-tains threats that should be feared asmuch as Muslim terror.

This absurd idea affirms that DHSis nothing but a political tool of Pres.Obama's administration. DHS's non-sense seems timed to give credence tohis recent delusional speeches inwhich he tongue-lashed Christians forthe crusades of 1,000 years ago.

It is obvious that Obama with DHSconnivance wants to boost his credswith American Muslims by shiftingthe onus for radical Islam's blood-lustto American conservatives and Chris-tians.

Meanwhile many American Mus-lims are going the Mid-east to joinISIS in burning, beheading, andbutchering other Muslims, Christiansand all Westerners they can lay theirhands on.

Fanatical Muslim sleeper cells andmilitary-style training camps areoperating in the U. S. but HomelandSecurity is not competent to projectany push-back against these domesticterrorists-in-waiting and in training.DHS is so bound up with political cor-rectness that they will not profile like-ly homeland Islamic terrorists.

Transportation safety comes underDHS's purview. The TSA should berevamped so that grandmas in wheel-chairs and babies in cradles are notpatted down before boarding air-planes as they are now. Systems ofprofiling and lists of security-clearedfliers must be set up to relieve free andpeace-loving Americans from the has-sle and personal privacy invasionsimposed in hysterical governmentattempts to avoid offending anybody.

The Department of HomelandSecurity as it exists is little more thana sinkhole for money and a politicalarm of Pres. Obama's fundamentaltransformation of America. It shouldbe done away with.

Gerald Holland510 9th St NE

Springhill, LA 71075

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GeRAlD

hollAnD

john

stossel

The Advocate,Baton Rouge,on sad end ofthe Nagin era:

The sad remainders ofthe Ray Nagin era were set-tled in U.S. District Courtwith the sentencing ofFrank Fradella, bag man tothe mayor who thought hewas a rock star and endedup in the pen for petty cor-ruption.

Fradella was a devastat-ing witness against Nagin,who is now serving a 10-year sentence. The NewOrleans businessman whopaid most of the bribes wassentenced to a year and aday in prison on Wednes-day by U.S. District JudgeSusie Morgan.

Under a plea deal with

the government signed in2012, Fradella faced a maxi-mum of five years in prison.He was the last figure in theNagin corruption case to besentenced, and his punish-ment is the same as the onedoled out to RodneyWilliams, another star wit-ness who testified againstthe mayor.

As the case wound itsway through the courts, thepeople of New Orleans hada right to feel betrayed byNagin and his cronies. But itis one of the ironies of thecase that Fradella’s faithfulpayoffs to Nagin never gothim the big score he wasafter: a huge contract tooversee a redevelopment,perhaps of the decrepitMarket Street power plantor the flooded Six Flagsamusement park.

Showering the mayor

with “gifts” and free granitefor his family’s countertopbusiness was a symptom ofthe rot that ran throughNagin’s City Hall, even as adeeply wounded communi-ty needed every bit of lead-ership and integrity that themayor ought to haveoffered.

The wages of sin came toabout $200,000 in cash andgifts over several years,including $112,500 in ninemonthly “consulting pay-ments” Fradella made tothe mayor after his exitfrom City Hall. Fradella alsotestified to providing theNagin family’s granite busi-ness with two truckloads offree granite and other pay-ments of $50,000 in cashthrough a third party.

In return, Nagin vouchedfor Fradella with bankers,helping him land a $40 mil-

lion line of credit, and hetried to help him get a big-ger redevelopment con-tract, Fradella said —though none ever material-ized.

Fradella pleaded guiltyto one count of conspiracyto commit bribery and onecount of false certificationof financial reports, each ofwhich carries a maximumpenalty of five years.

Failure at double-deal-ing was rarely so compre-hensive or expensive. Butthe real price was paid bythe people of Nagin’s cityand state who looked tohim for guidance and sawinstead a hucksteringprima-donna in one of thegreat crises of the 300-yearhistory of New Orleans.

Online: http://theadvo-cate.com

editorial roundup

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 — Minden Press-Herald 5

Tuesday, Feb. 24

Linda Weaver Clarkewill teach a seminar onimportant elements ofwriting family historyfrom 3 until 5 p.m. inthe Stewart Center atthe Webster ParishLibrary on East andWest Street.

Thursday, Feb. 26

Adult Christian Educa-tion Class from 6:30until 8 p.m. at St.John’s EpiscopalChurch, 1107 Broad-way. Topic for secondweek: Jesus in Galilee(Mark 1:16-4:34).

Parent PARCC testinformation night will beheld from 6 until 7:30p.m. at the DoylineHigh School cafeteria.Parents can learn waysto assist a child with thetimed PARCC test,express concerns andask questions aboutupcoming Phase I andPhase II, learn strate-gies to assist their childwith PARCC tests andthe implications of “opt-ing out.” call 318-745-3673 for information.

Sunday, March 1

Mayflower BaptistChurch will host a 27thanniversary honoringPastor J. J. Jones at2:30 p.m. Special guestwill be the Rev. Billy Tar-get, Pastor of the Ever-green Missionary BaptistChurch of Shreveport.

AroundTown

MHS

Darling

crowneD

Karlee Osbon, cen-

ter, was crowned

2015 MHS Darling

Saturday night. She

was joined by third

runner-up Peyton

Woods, left, Little

MHS Darling Addison

Fields, first runner-up

Ke’Adria Miller and

second runner-up

Victoria Williams.

Osbon won evening

gown competition

and tied with Miller in

the interview compe-

tition, while Miller

took honors as Peo-

ple’s Choice.Bonnie Culverhouse/Press-

Herald

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Andrew Stevenson racedtoward the warning track incenter field at almost a fullsprint.

He flung out his left handin search of the wall, threwup his gloved right hand andhoped the baseball found hismitt.

Of course, it did. It usual-ly does.

Stevenson’s third-inningcatch in LSU’s 16-2 winover Boston College doesn’tseem so important in a 14-run victory. But it saved tworuns, preserved the Tigers’four-run lead at the time andhelped a rookie starter getout of a troublesome inning.

Thing is, it may havebeen Stevenson’s lessimpactful play of his explo-sive weekend in the Tigers’three-game series sweep ofBoston College.

Stevenson had two triplesin one game Saturday. Hehad an RBI triple in theseries opener Friday after-noon. He stole back-to-backbases in Friday’s nightcap ofa doubleheader and eventu-ally scored on a sac-fly— itwas a line drive to short cen-ter field. He used his speedagain to score on a wildpitch in Saturday’s seriesfinale.

Throw in that eye-pop-ping catch in center fieldand the junior fromYoungsville is developinginto LSU’s most versatileplayer. His competition forthat title — shortstop AlexBregman — even admits it.

“I think he’s the fullpackage,” Bregman said.

LSU (6-1) is nearlyhalfway through its four-week non-conference sched-ule, and its offensive, defen-sive and base-running lead-ers are beginning to emerge.

Catcher Kade Scivicquehas a team-leading threehome runs and seven RBIs,and outfielder Jared Fosteris batting .545. Bregman andsecond baseman KramerRobertson have made a hostof sticky plays, andScivicque has gunned downthree of five runners.

But only one guy hasshined in each of those threeareas: Stevenson.

He’s second on the teambatting at .360, is first intriples with three and has yetto commit an error in theoutfield. The speedster hasbeen a menace on the basepaths, too.

“Boy, he’s electric,”coach Paul Mainieri said.“He’s an exciting player.”

He batted 5-for-9 on theweekend, a stat with a storybehind it.

After the 6-3 loss toNicholls State onWednesday, coachestweaked Stevenson’s swing.They quieted his hands.He’s more still when swing-ing through the ball.

“I was able to see the ballbetter and it just kind of paidoff,” Stevenson said. “Notas much movement. I hadtoo much movement goingon making me late for theball.”

Mainieri describes thedifference in his contactwith the baseball as movingfrom soft to “jumping off hisbat.”

Two of Stevenson’striples were line drivesdown the right field line anda third bounded to deep cen-ter. The lefty had a single upthe middle and anotherthrough the left side of theinfield.

He hit over the weekendlike that guy who, shocking-

ly, led LSU in batting lastseason – a year after hitting.193 as a freshman.

“After his freshman year,he made some adjustmentsyou saw last year,” Bregmansaid. “I think he’s made evenmore adjustments. Hesquares the ball up. And, bythe way, he’s probably thefastest center fielder in thecountry and, by far, the bestdefensive center fielder inthe country.”

He might challenge forLSU’s stolen base title thisyear. After all, he’s been thefastest player on the teamthree years running.

New hitting coach AndyCannizaro, a base-stealingguru from his days at

Tulane, is pushing LSU’sspeedsters — Bregman,Stevenson, Mark Laird, JakeFraley, Jared Foster — toswipe more bags.

Through seven gameslast season, the Tigers were5-of-9 in stolen bases. Thisyear through the first seven?LSU has 11 stolen bases on12 attempts. Stevenson, 9-for-14 in steals all of lastyear, is 2-for-2.

“I love stealing bases. Itgives you a little rush,” hesaid.

Stealing, hitting triples,making mouth-gapingcatches. What’s next?

“You’ll see him hit a fewhomers too,” Bregman said.“Just wait.”

NEW ORLEANS(Reuters) - Domestic bat-tery charges against NewOrleans Saints linebackerJunior Galette have beendropped, prosecutors saidon Friday, even as a relat-ed civil suit against thefootball player was filedby his alleged victim.

Galette was arrestedlast month and chargedwith beating a 22-year-oldwoman in one of a stringof recent high-profiledomestic abuse casesinvolving NFL players,including MinnesotaVikings running backAdrian Peterson and for-mer Baltimore Ravensrunning back Ray Rice.

NFL CommissionerRoger Goodell, amid pub-lic pressure, in Auguststrengthened the league'spenalties against suchcrimes.

Prosecutors in the New

Orleans suburb of Kenneron Thursday determinedthat the evidence againstGalette was insufficient toshow a crime had beencommitted, Kenner CityAttorney Michael Powersaid.

In addition to droppinga misdemeanor domesticviolence charge againstGalette, prosecutorsdropped a simple batterycharge against Galette'scousin, codefendantTerrance Banks.

Also on Thursday,Galette's alleged victim,who has described herself

as his live-in assistant,filed a lawsuit against thefootball player accusinghim of physical, emotionaland sexual abuse.

It also alleges thatGalette allowed an uniden-tified Saints player togrope her as other team-mates watched.

"This young lady hasbeen severely trauma-tized," said her attorney,Joseph Raspanti. "Sheseems to be a classicexample of an abusedwoman."

Galette's attorney,Ralph Whalen, on

Thursday provided to localmedia a letter sent lastmonth by Raspanti offer-ing to forego a lawsuit inexchange for a $2 millionpayment to his client.

Raspanti said the letterwas confidential and thatWhalen should not havemade it public. Whalen didnot immediately respondto a message seeking com-ment.

NFL spokesman BrianMcCarthy said in a state-ment that the case is stillunder review.

The Saints declined tocomment.

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With only four gamesremaining in the regularseason, the SoutheasternConference men’s bas-ketball tournament isstarting to come intofocus.

It is for some teams,anyway.

In a not-so-shockingdevelopment, top-ranked and unbeatenKentucky has officiallyclinched a double-byeand won’t have to playuntil the quarterfinals ofthe March 11-15 tourna-ment at BridgestoneArena in Nashville,Tennessee.

On the other end ofthe spectrum, Missouri,which has lost 13 con-secutive games sincetopping LSU in over-time in its conferenceopener on Jan. 8, will beplaying on the first dayof the tournament whenthe bottom four seedsfight for the right to playanother day.

Almost everythingelse is in play at thispoint, even the possibil-ity of LSU having a shotat securing one of theother three double-byesawarded to the top fourteams in the final stand-ings.

LSU, which claimeda much-needed 70-63win over Florida onSaturday in the PeteMaravich AssemblyCenter, is currently tiedfor fifth with Georgiawith 8-6 records.

LSU and Georgia aretwo games behind TexasA&M and Ole Miss,who are in a third-placetie at 10-4 — just onegame behind second-place Arkansas.

The bad news forLSU is Arkansas, A&Mand Ole Miss all wonSaturday to help thosethree teams maintaintheir cushion over theirnearest pursuers.

The good news is theTigers play two of thosethree teams in the finaltwo weeks of the sea-son.

After visiting Auburnon Tuesday night, LSUwill host Ole Miss onSaturday and Tennesseeon March 4, then closeout the regular season atArkansas on March 7.

As a result, LSU canfinish anywhere fromsecond to 12th in thejumbled-up league eventhough it’s guaranteed tobe penciled in no worsethan sixth by winningthree of its last four.

Of course, the Tigersare concentrating on thenorth end of that sce-nario.

Since the Tigers arethree games behindArkansas with fourgames remaining, LSUis likely playing for thethird or fourth seed eventhough the 18th-rankedRazorbacks have TexasA&M, Kentucky andLSU in front of them.

Still, with two set-backs against TexasA&M, giving the Aggiesthe edge in a two-teamtiebreaker, the Tigershave a better chance ofcatching Ole Miss,whom LSU beat inOxford on Jan. 14.

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Growing up in thesouth, I have alwayslooked forward to springand all it affords those wholove to get into the out-doors to enjoy what theGood Lord has provided.

For me, that alwaysmeant that I’m spoolingnew line on my reels, get-ting them cleaned andlubricated, checking mytackle boxes taking inven-tory of what lures neednew hooks and skirts andwhat needs to be replaced.Springtime means thatbass, crappie and breamare headed for the shallowsto spawn and wild horsescouldn’t keep me away.

At least, that’s what thespringtime outdoors meantto me until 1992 whenagainst my better judgmentI gave in to the gentle armtwisting of a fellow out-door writer to give springturkey hunting a try.

As it turned out, that tripover to Alabama for my

initial foray into springturkey hunting was a life-changing experience.

Admittedly, it didn’tfeel natural to be sitting inthe woods clad head to toein camouflage cradling myshotgun with purple mar-tins twittering far abovethe flowering dogwoods.Sitting in my boat on a lakecasting into pollen-fleckedwater would have feltmuch more normal.

Something happened onthat April morning underthe dogwoods in ruralAlabama, though, thatchanged all that. My guidecalled in a mature longbeard that came in gob-bling, strutting, spittingand drumming, I squeezedthe trigger and I wasimmediately and foreverhooked. Each spring since,bedded bass and bluegillshave taken a back seat towild turkeys and I’ve trav-eled the country fromFlorida to South Dakota;

Texas to Connecticut chas-ing these amazing birds.

Hunting wild turkeys isone of my passions; mak-ing sure we continue to

h a v ethem inour partof thecountry isano the r.T h a t ’ swhy ittook verylittle per-s u a s i o nfor me tosign on as

a committee member ofmy local National WildTurkey Federation(NWTF) chapter, theNorth-Central Louisianabunch of good old guysand gals.

Being a turkey hunterbut refusing to supportefforts on their behalf issomething like somebodyhanding you the keys tonew pick-up truck but

you’re not willing to buythe gas to make it go. Thetruck won’t run withoutfuel; wild turkeys won’tprosper without the help offolks willing to supportwith their dollars projectsnecessary to make surethey do.

This is why becoming amember of your localchapter of the NWTF isvitally important. How doyou do that? It’s easy;make plans to attend anannual fund-raising ban-quet and you’re on board.

Our North-CentralLouisiana chapter banquetis on the calendar and it’sonly a few days away.Thursday February 26 isthe date of the event to beheld at the Ruston CivicCenter. Doors will open at5:30 to give attendees timeto browse among the tanta-lizing array of merchandiseto be auctioned off fol-lowed by dinner at 7:00.

If you’ve never attended

a banquet, you’re in for atreat. In recent years, thename of these annual fund-raising banquets has beenchanged to add somethingvitally necessary to protectand defend the tradition ofhunting. These meetingsare now called HuntingHeritage banquets with theadded goal of helping usprotect our SecondAmendment rights.

At this year’s banquet,you’ll enjoy a deliciousmeal, you’ll get to talkturkey with your buddiesand have the opportunity tohead home with a valuableprize or two.

Best of all, you’ll feelgood knowing you didyour part to assure thefuture for wild turkeys.

Glynn Harris Outdoorsis proudly sponsored byDSK, Ltd. of Minden.

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NWTF banquet set for Thursday in RustonL O U I S I A N A O U T D O O R S

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