The News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana • Page 8

THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2007 THE NEWS-STAR WWW.THENEWSSTAR.COM MILESTONES Monroe. Matthew Burial will be in St. Cemetery, Mangham. Jerry W. Bennett, 60 LOTTERY Jerry Winston Bennett of Wednesday Pick 3: 4-9-9 Monroe, owner and operator Wednesday Pick 4: 2-9-0-4 of Bennett Roofing, died Wednesday Cash Quest: 24-26- Tuesday.

Services are 2 p.m. 28-43 Friday at Kilpatrick Funeral Wednesday Powerball ($34.4 Home, Monroe. Visitation is 5- million): 6-7-16-34-42 8 p.m. today at the funeral Powerball: 23 Power Play: 2 home. Burial will be in Wednesday La.

Lotto Mulhearn Memorial Park 4-7-8-16-21-24 Cemetery, Monroe. BIRTHS Jimmy D. Berry 69 MARION Jimmy D. Berry GLENWOOD an oil and gas company April and Justin Hales, a girl, owner, died Monday. Emory Lynn.

Graveside services are 2 p.m. Amanda and Jeffrey Hataway, a boy, Ryder Benjamin. Linville, under the direction of today at Liberty Cemetery, Jennifer and Andrew Shoemaker, Mulhearn Funeral Home, a boy, Cameron Stephen. Sterlington Road, Monroe. ST.

FRANCIS Angel Eddins and Edwin Burks, a Robert J. Clark 66 boy, Edwin Demontae. RAYVILLE Robert James Amy Minor, a boy, Corey La'Trail. Clark a truck driver, died Wednesday. Services are 2 p.m.

DEATHS Friday at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Rayville. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at Earline Armstrong, 77 the church and 10 a.m. until Earline Armstrong of service time Friday at the Monroe, a nurse's aide, died church. Burial will be in Wednesday.

Services are 1 p.m. Stevenson Cemetery, Rayville, Saturday at St. Matthews under the direction of BrownBaptist Church, Mangham. Holley Funeral Home, Visitation is 1-6 p.m. Friday at Rayville.

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Michael News-Star Carroll High School graduate Samantha Clay, right, has her gown looked over one last time prior to the ceremony on Wednesday. Final surge of emotion In the end, you can't fake it PHOTO GALLERIES See more graduation images by going to thenewsstar.com Seniors of Richwood High School attend Arely D. News-Star Francesca Neal gets a hug from Diona Ricks as they wait to march in Ouachita's Parish Alternative Center's graduation ceremony at ULM's Brown Auditorium Wednesday. Terrance News-Star the graduation ceremony at Fant-Ewing Coliseum in Monroe on Wednesday. One-vehicle LOPE'S PLANT NURSERY 150 Henry West Monroe, La.

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night on Little Loutre Road in Troopers said Otty was not Union Parish. wearing his seatbelt at the State police said Brian Otty, time of the crash. 45, of Truxno, was driving a State police are awaiting 1995 Ford Ranger eastbound results of toxicology tests that when he ran off the left side of will determine whether alcothe road, overcorrected and hol was a factor in the wreck. hostage scenario ends peacefully By Stacy Temple A West Monroe man was being treated at a local medical facility after holding his mother hostage and threatening to harm himself. The Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office Special Weapons and Tactics Team and hostage negotiators were called to a home shortly before 1 a.m.

Wednesday in the 100 block of Westwood Drive in western Ouachita Parish. Sgt. Mike Goyne and Specialist Marsha Hebert were hostage negotiators at the scene. Goyne said the 50-year-old man held his 84-year-old mother hostage in their home and fired a shotgun into the ceiling. the SWAT team arrived, the woman managed STAFF CONTACTS News Editor: Mark Henderson, 362-0350 Assistant Managing Editor: Eleanor Rushing, 362-0263 Sports Editor: Nick Deriso, 362-0234 to escape out of a window and around two hours later, the man surrendered to hostage negotiators.

Maj. Royce Toney, head of investigations, said names are not being released because the man was not charged. Instead, he was taken to LSU Health Sciences Center in Monroe to undergo 72-hour treatment for a possible mental illness. The female victim was released to a family member after being checked by American Medical Response, who were at the scene as well. Toney said the negotiators handled the situation in a timely manner and it was resolved successfully.

"Because of SWAT training and crisis intervention training, this situation was resolved without loss of life on either side," Toney said. Accent Editor: Fred Phillips, 362-0256 Business Reporter: Greg Hilburn, 362-0288 thenews.star.com.