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Charges include DWI, bank fraud

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Name: Christopher Alec Champion Age: 48

Keeping calm in times of crisis important for kids

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Vital to a child’s sense of wellbeing are parents who act competent to provide adequate provision and protection under any and all circumstances.

Potentially postponed conference causes job panic

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DEAR HARRIETTE: I have been planning a conference for my business for almost a year now. In the midst of this coronavirus scare, many conferences are being canceled, and I am getting worried. My company counts on this conference as its primary source of revenue each year.

Two Tigers named Class B first team All-State selections

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Simsboro High School seniors Jakemine Abney (above left) and Kalep Crane (above right) have both been named first-team selections on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Class B All-State Basketball as announced this morning. Simsboro was the Class B runner-up after falling to Doyline in the title game by the overtime score of 85-83 on March 14 in Lake Charles. Both Abney and Crane averaged 23.0 points per game on the season. Leader file photos

‘Forever Friends’ crucial in times like these

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Frank Sinatra had his “Rat Pack,” Elvis “The Memphis Mafia,” and Taylor Swift has her “Squad.” All are close-knit friends who stick together through thick and thin. This writer has her own version of such a crew, one that has been through every high and low you can imagine. Meet the “Rejects.”

38 positive for coronavirus at Rikers, New York City jails

The board overseeing New York City’s jails urged officials to start releasing vulnerable populations and those being held on low-level offenses as the coronavirus outbreak hit the notorious Rikers Island complex and nearby jails — infecting at least 38 people. Another inmate,

Governor issues Stay at Home order

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Gov. John Bel Edwards on Sunday issued a statewide Stay at Home order to further combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Louisiana. It will go into effect at 5 p.m. today.

Officials: Quarantine rumors are ‘fake’

Local and state emergency preparedness officials are trying to quell rumors that people are about to be quarantined in their homes for two weeks and that the Louisiana National Guard (LANG) has been deployed to enforce that.

CHURCH NEWS

Editor’s Note: Because of coronavirus, many local churches have temporarily suspended public corporate worship and gone to online, social media and other ways to keep their congregations and th

Allegiance Health to acquire NLMC

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The Shreveport-based Allegiance Health Management is in the process of acquiring Northern Louisiana Medical Center.