Mansfield News

MANSFIELD - A pro-business stance won out over residents' concerns Monday when the Mansfield Board of Aldermen rejected the denial of a zoning request for a proposed eye clinic.

PELICAN - Friends of the Pelican Branch Library will have a book sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the DeSoto Library branch, 145 Jackson Ave.

One zoning request was nixed and another approved during a public hearing the Mansfield Planning/Zoning Commission held Wednesday afternoon.

MANSFIELD - The realignment of U.S. Highway 171 through Mansfield is offering the opportunity for more commercial development in the city, and the first two moves come before the Mansfield Planning/Zoning Commission on Wednesday.

State officials are asking oil and gas operators to help ensure that water drawn from domestic wells is not being used for industrial purposes, particularly in the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells.

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.