Haughton News

CADDO & BOSSIER PARISH, LA It's been weeks since the storms rolled through the Ark-La-Tex. Today FEMA and Governor Bobby Jindal's assessment teams hit the streets to see if the areas affected add up enough to get federal assistance.

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.

Troop G LEOs "Back To Work" LOUISIANA STATE POLICE COURTESY LOYALTY SERVICE November 11, 2009 LEOs "Back to Work" With all the police, fire and EMS tools now cleaned up and dried out from their heavy use in helping manage our recent high water incidents, local first responders assembled all over again for a different reason.

An appellate court has reversed the negligent homicide convictions of three former employees of a northwestern Louisiana youth shelter who were convicted in the 2005 death of a 12-year-old Haughton boy.

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Former NFL tight end Mike Barber mixed Jeff Foxworthy-style jokes with humility to entertain and inspire Thursday at the 28th annual Shreveport-Bossier Mayors' Prayer Breakfast.

First the planning commission, then bad weather, but after a couple of delays the giant cross is now up in Haughton.

Meteorologists from the National Weather Service set out Friday tracking the paths of the previous day's tornadoes, getting visual confirmation of the weather alerts they'd issued via uprooted trees, downed power lines and at least 100 damaged homes.

The Northwest Louisiana Chapter of the Red Cross has closed its shelter at a Haughton elementary school.

We begin our trip high above the Ark-La-Tex near the Wallace Lake area, just south of Shreveport.

STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL'S OFFICE: Following severe weather in North and Southwest Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal has issued a statewide emergency declaration today to assist in the deployment and staging of state assets to support affected parishes in responding to the emergency.

An aerial view of flooding around Wallace Lake and Red Chute Bayou shows just how difficult the situation is for the people living near both bodies of water.

Share + Oct 30, 2009 6:30 am US/Pacific SHREVEPORT, La. 1 of 1 A tornado was responsible for the destruction of a steeple from a prominent church in Shreveport, La., on Oct.

The steeple has fallen from the top of the First Methodist Church in downtown Shreveport.

High school marching bands from Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas are scheduled to compete in the 2009 Northwestern State University Marching Contest Saturday at Turpin Stadium on the NSU campus in Natchitoches.

Bossier Sheriff's deputies need the public's help in finding a Haughton man wanted for domestic abuse battery.

The Louisiana attorney general and the Office of the Inspector General are investigating the state's largest police retirement system, whose ownership of Louisiana golf courses has been under fire for years.

The Louisiana inspector general and the state attorney general are jointly investigating the Municipal Police Employees Retirement System, an attorney for the system said Monday.

John Maynard had a few tricks up his sleeve Oct. 3 when he introduced the Krewe of Atlas Court.