While firemen fought a grass fire that was started by a car fire, a distraught man sat on a pickup tailgate looking at the blood on his hands and telling his story to Minden police officers.
In the first of two wrecks on Allen Drive Thursday afternoon, Melvin Jones, a kidney transplant patient, said he was running an errand for someone when he lost control of his vehicle. The vehicle overturned then burst into flames.
September first will be the first official day on the job for the new superintendent of Webster Parish schools.







