Benton News

The Bossier Police Jury created its first sewer district Wednesday, appointed the district's board, which voted to change the district into a consolidated water and sewer district and recommended the Police Jury approve the new district, comprised of police jurors.

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The Louisiana inspector general's office is investigating why a $500,000 check from lot sales in Olde Oaks neighborhood near Haughton went missing for months instead of being paid into the pension fund to which it was owed.

Antonio Rivera and Amanda Pittmon are overcomers. When Antonio was 2, his parents died and his sister later abandoned him in a New York subway.

Ranging in look from country cousins to punk rockers, a most unlikely group today at LSU Shreveport all had two things in common.

Calvary Baptist Church will have a special service at 10 a.m. today to honor soldiers killed and wounded last week at the Army's Fort Hood in Texas.

A public hearing is on the agenda for the City Council's regular meeting, set for 3 p.m. in chambers at Government Plaza, 505 Travis St.

Senior citizens with Medicare cards may get free flu and pneumonia shots from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Hirsch Memorial Coliseum as part of Senior Day at the State Fair of Louisiana in Shreveport.

Recent floodwaters have gotten more than just local human residents stirred up. Mosquitoes appear to have been extra active following October's record rains.

RonStroope shot this video on October 29. He saw the dark funnel clouds over downtown Shreveport as he approached the church.

Veterans Day will be a special occasion for Benton's Dale Whipple, who will spend it in the nation's capital, honoring fallen comrades in Arlington National Cemetery.

Shreveport's downtown YMCA was damaged Thursday afternoon as fallout from a tornado ripped tiles from the roof of the landmark building built in 1924.

If you know of any street flooding or street closures, please email us at ksla@ksla.com . Shreveport: Fairfield Ave.

Sandbags are available to Bossier Parish residents beginning at 8 a.m. today in anticipation of flooding from heavy rains that likely will set a new record for precipitation in October.

The Shreveport-Bossier City area once again exhibited its better side for the 40 nationally qualified anglers who competed here over the weekend for the Academy Sports + Outdoors Women's Bassmaster Tour Championship.

Voters in parts of eight northwest Louisiana parishes can head to the polls today for elections ranging from tax increases and renewals to filling council posts.

When the Academy Sports + Outdoors Women's Bassmaster Tour Championship casts off Friday out of the Cypress Black Bayou ramp in Benton, don't expect the throngs of visiting media and hours of ESPN television coverage that the Bassmaster Classic attracted here in February.

For those who follow the Women's Bassmaster Tour, this weekend's Tour Championship has been relocated.

Many people in north Bossier Parish woke up to rising floodwaters. Other families woke to the smell of sewer water.

N. BOSSIER PARISH, LA - A North Bossier Parish resident complained of water and sewage seeping into her home from the recent rain.