Bossier City News

Sunday 28 Jun Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 01:32AM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com-SHREVEPORT, La.

Hundreds of people, including elected officials representing the state, packed the Bossier Civic Center on Tuesday to watch Bossier City's mayor and council members be sworn into office and listen to the mayor's inaugural address.

Papa Murphy's Take 'N Bake Pizza offers all the tastiness of a home-cooked pizza with none of the work.

A guilty plea and life sentence have ended a case in which two men were accused of kidnapping and raping a Houston woman, then putting her in the trunk of her rented car and setting it on fire while she was still alive.

A Bossier City man wanted in connection with the armed robbery of Family Dollar in the 2700 block of Barksdale Boulevard surrendered to authorities this morning.

Flames in a Bossier City nursing home maintenance room sparked a chain of events that kept emergency personnel on their toes all day Saturday.

An Ark-La-Tex company dropped by the KSLA News 12 studios Thursday to make a donation to the News 12 Fan Drive.

The House and Senate will spend much of Wednesday taking care of unfinished business left over from Monday.

It's business as usual on Waller Avenue in Bossier City, the business of Monday morning.

"Keep On The Watch" is the theme of a District Convention for Jehovah's Witnesses taking place in Bossier City over the weekend.

The Bossier Parish Police Jury tackled issues that included natural gas pipelines and one juror's request to cut down more trees in part of the parish, but first Police Juror Wanda Bennett had stern words about a proposed publicly assisted housing project near the Louisiana Boardwalk.

BATON ROUGE - A Senate committee has approved a tax break for individuals or companies that convert vehicles so they burn so-called "clean-burning" fuels instead of gasoline.

Bossier Parish is moving toward creating zoning across the parish, which might not sound like the most exciting of topics - until an oil company clear-cuts the land behind your house.

MANSFIELD - The Mansfield Board of Aldermen at a meeting this week voted to ask the state Mineral Board to handle the lease of mineral rights on a five-acre tract behind the Wal-Mart Supercenter on state Highway 509.

A 75-year-old Bossier school bus driver is accused of having sexual contact with two teenage boys who live near him and once rode his bus.

With hurricane season now 11 days in, local and state emergency response agencies have designated at least eight buildings as storm shelters in Shreveport and Bossier City.

Bossier City had a quick workshop Tuesday, but not before Fire Chief Sammy Halphen once again paid respects to the late Chief Frank Maxwell Smith, Bossier City's first, paid fire chief, who passed away Sunday.

The flags at the Bossier City Fire Department's stations and training center will continue to fly at half staff through Thursday in tribute to the city's first paid fire chief.

Papa Murphy's, a take-and-bake pizza chain, will open its first Louisiana store Tuesday at 2624 Beene Blvd.

Bossier Parish and Bossier City are preparing to work on several major road expansions, forcing local officials to consider expropriating - forcibly taking - land from several property owners.