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This editorial applies to a small but very important portion of our readership: those in Bossier City Council District 5, Caddo Fire District 8 and Caddo Sewer District 2. You have the opportunity to vote tomorrow.

Caddo voters in separate sewer and fire districts can head to the polls Saturday to vote on property tax propositions.

Early voting in elections to be held May 2 starts Saturday. Votes can be cast between 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday and Monday through April 25 at parish registrar of voters' offices.

Today is election day for several races in northwest Louisiana. In Bossier City, that means local voters will be able to choose three people to represent them on the Bossier City Council.

Phil and Karen Courville of Opelousas announce the engagement of their daughter, Heather Courville, to Albert Lambert Jr.

A man on trial for drug possession now faces even more charges after he left the courthouse during a lunch break.

A 39-year-old Caddo Parish man has been arrested on timber theft charges alleging he cut dozens of loads of timber and didn't pay the landowner.

A ceremonial concrete pouring was held in north Caddo Parish this afternoon in connection with the awarding of the contract to pave the first segment of the Interstate 49 extension north of Shreveport.

IDA - Interstate 49's north Louisiana terminus Monday rolled closer - at least ceremonially - toward Arkansas.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is about to take part in a concrete pouring ceremony near Ida at the Louisiana/Arkansas border.

They couldn't be home for Christmas, but more than 80 Army National Guard personnel from a Bossier City-based unit should be toasting the new year and eating good-luck black-eyed peas with loved ones as 2009 ...

IDA - State officials will celebrate progess on Intersate 49 north construction Monday in Caddo's upper reaches.