Mansfield News

MANSFIELD - Louisiana Oil & Gas Association President Don Briggs got a personal tour today of a number of DeSoto Parish's roadways that are disintegrating under the weight and volume of truck traffic generated by the Haynesville Shale play.

Fit and hardy, Gary Lee Littrell stalked the halls of Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shrevepot on Thursday probably much the same way he paced south the jungles of South Vietnam 40 years ago as a sergeant first class advising our South Vietnamese allies.

A man whom police say admitted to running over his girlfriend with a vehicle has been charged with negligent homicide, a news release states.

NEAR MANSFIELD - DeSoto sheriff's deputies are at a natural gas well site on Cotton Belt Road, where a worker reportedly has had his arm amputated while working on the rig.

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

Apollo Elementary will celebrate its 40th birthday from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the school at 2400 Viking Drive in Bossier City.

Tens of thousands of dollars were either spent or obligated during Monday's City Council meeting on projects that included expanded parking and a new fire truck.

BackAlley Community Theater will present "God and Country," a program of patriotic and gospel music, at 7 p.m. Nov.

Whenever anyone asks me where Ia m from, I simply say, a oe Louisiana . Ita s a nice place to be from ." Hopefully, they get it.

A tornado touched down in Louisiana Thursday, leaving damage along its path, the National Weather Service said.

MANSFIELD - It's not often that a dirt contractor says he's glad it's raining. But Dennis Bell was among the few who didn't mind last week's rain.

BATON ROUGE - Eight schools around the state that were on the verge of being taken over by the Recovery School District will find out next month whether their improvements are sufficient to remove restrictions on their operations.

The city of Shreveport and the DeSoto Police Jury appeared to be a combined $5.7 million richer thanks to Wednesday's mineral lease sale in Baton Rouge.

The DeSoto Parish Police Jury appears to be $1.6 million richer thanks to today's mineral lease sale in Baton Rouge.

RINGGOLD - "Louisiana History: Perspectives on the Pelican State" will be presented from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays starting Oct.

It took a Taser and four Shreveport police officers to take into custody a man authorities say assaulted two officers.

MANSFIELD - Mansfield aldermen on Monday gave the go ahead for engineers to proceed with a water improvement project that taxpayers started paying for last year.

MANSFIELD - The search is on for a Mansfield man whom authorities say was selling marijuana out of a pink Dora the Explorer backpack.

MANSFIELD - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal awarded the state's Veterans Honor Medal to 79 veterans, primarily from DeSoto, during a ceremony Thursday at the DeSoto Multicultural Community Center in Mansfield.

MANSFIELD -- DeSoto EMS is nearing an end to a three-month trial of a manual CPR device and likely will purchase at least two for the four taxpayer-funded ambulances that serve the parish.