Shreveport News Archives

Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency after storms caused at least one death, road and home flooding, power outages and wind damage in northwestern Louisiana.

National Weather Service officials in Shreveport believe a tornado or tornados skipped from southwest Shreveport to north Bossier Parish in about a one-hour period this afternoon.

A Carencro business owner is celebrating being crowned Mrs. Black Louisiana. Juanita Prejean, owner of Big Poppa's Fitness Gym, competed this past weekend in Shreveport for the title.

Patrol officers responded to a weather related incident involving a vehicle and a church steeple.

Emergency personnel tend to a man whose vehicle was crushed after the steeple on top of First United Methodist Church fell on his car at the intersection of Common and Texas streets during stormy weather.

SHREVEPORT -- As people tally the damage from Thursday's tornadoes, thousands remain without power and there's an ever-increasing threat from rising waterways.

Over 2 feet of snow blankets Denver Oct. 29: The slow-moving autumn storm dumped 36 inches of snow in parts of Colorado, closing schools, disrupting flights and icing roads.

Shreveport firefighters and police are prying a man from a car crushed by the falling of First United Methodist Church in downtown Shreveport.

Starting at 10am today the city of Shreveport will distribute sand bags to Shreveport area residents at the following locations: David Raines Recreation Center 2920 Round Grove Lane Southern Hills Recreation Shreveport Streets and Drainage Facility 3800 Block of Mansfield Road The Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security recommends that only those ...

BATON ROUGE - The current sales tax imposed on gasoline is not providing enough revenue to finance needed highway construction and repairs, a legislative panel was told Wednesday, so an alternative source or increased funding is needed.

An early-morning car chase through Shreveport ends in a crash, shutting down one elementary school and leaving hundreds of residents without power.

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BATON ROUGE - Grambling State University could be facing some shake-ups in its course offerings and how it markets itself to increase enrollment.

Shreveport Police have arrested a local man for illegal possession of stolen things and are now looking for other possible victims.

Shreveport Fire Department, in conjunction the Caddo-Bossier Citizen Corps, is seeking volunteers for a new Reserve Fire Corps Program, Fire Chief Brian Crawford announced today.

BATON ROUGE - Ten percent of all of the current oil and gas exploration in the United States is centered in a corner of northwestern Louisiana, home to what's known as the Haynesville Shale.

The only thing is, we're not sure why he went. To be more precise, we do know that he wants to protect jobs at GM's Shreveport plant that builds Hummers.

In the year since the national economic meltdown began, Louisiana has lost 19,500 non-farm jobs, with manufacturing taking the brunt of the recession-fired unemployment, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported Friday.

Shreveport Police have charged a Converse woman in connection with several theft cases.

SHREVEPORT - Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator say a Mooringsport man has been arrested by deputies on charges he allegedly raped two girls aged 10 and 11 at the time of the attacks.

The complete totals are in and the numbers are even "bigger and better" as the City of Shreveport is now set to receive a total of $6,374,089.80 in mineral lease bonus payments.

Armed with about 75 domestic violence-related warrants, more than 50 law enforcement officials hit the streets of Shreveport well before daybreak Wednesday.

The 103rd year of the State Fair of Louisiana is underway. Sheri Smith, general manager at Holiday Inn in west Shreveport, says the annual fair is 1 of the top 10 events for the hotel and gives them a 45 to 50 percent bump in capacity each fall.

Shreveport Police detectives are investigating a homicide that occurred this morning outside of a west Shreveport home.

Andrew Long Chesson Jr., the chief academic officer for the LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport has been confirmed as dean of the school.

KSLA News 12 has learned that a City of Shreveport employee involved in a controversy surrounding the cities car boot program has been given an ultimatum.

The first company in this region to offer compressed natural gas conversion kits for fleet vehicles has opened in Shreveport.

A Shreveport homeowner used his handgun to stop a home invader who kicked in his front door and came to his bedroom.

Shreveport Police officers are still investigating a kidnapping and rape that occurred last week in west Shreveport.

NEW ORLEANS - Three cities in Louisiana and one in Mississippi are among 41 regional Veterans Day sites named by Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.

The Shreveport Police Department and the West Peak Neighborhood Association will be hosting a bicycle rodeo this Saturday as part of an ongoing commitment to educate our children and keep them safe.

A tip from a confidential informant led police to the man they call the 'Family Dollar robber.' They arrested Jerry Moore, 24, early Wednesday at a residence in the 100 block of Carriage Square in Bossier City after receiving information about the recent robberies of Family Dollar stores in Shreveport, police said during a news conference.

Days of heavy rain cause problems in north Louisiana. In East Carroll Parish, about 2.7 miles of the east-bound lane of Louisiana Highway 582 have been closed indefinitely because part of the roadway is sliding.

Heavy rain and winds continue to lash northwest Louisiana, causing power outages and flash flooding throughout the area.

Shreveport police need help identifying a man who robbed a Family Dollar store Saturday in west Shreveport .

Connecting flight delays in California are temporarily grounding Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover's trip to China.

ALEXANDRIA - The Rapides Parish Police Jury voted unanimously today to hire Dennis Woodward of Ruston to be the new parish engineer/public works director.

It seems that word of Insomniac's extremely likely followup to Resistance 2 has emerged not from the gaming industry, but Hollywood.

Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover is slated to leave Monday for China, where he will tout the region as a place for environmentally friendly business and to keep Hummer manufacturing alive.

Shreveport police are investigating a home invasion in which two armed men ran away empty-handed. It happened just before 4 a.m. Thursday, when two men awoke the occupant of a residence in the 6500 block of Clift Avenue in the city's Morningside neighborhood.

Landing a steady job amid a moribund economy can challenge the best of us. Factor in a disability, and the task might seem insurmountable.

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's death toll from swine flu rose to 20 Friday, as health care providers this week started doling out the first round of 26,000 doses of a vaccine against the virus.

General Motors is now one step closer to selling off the Hummer brand to Chinese company Tengzhong.

An armed man whose speech is "very proper" forced a 14-year-old girl into a dark, four-door sedan at Midway and Orla streets in Shreveport as she walked to her school bus stop about 6:50 a.m. Wednesday then raped at a house, police say.

Shreveport Police officers are investigating a kidnapping and rape that occurred this morning in west Shreveport.

After years of a moribund economy, Monroe will add jobs at the fastest pace in Louisiana in 2010 and 2011, while New Orleans will stagger through its post-Hurricane Katrina recovery with the slowest employment growth.

Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover isn't above a little celebrity rubbernecking. During a news conference Tuesday, he recalled a 2008 visit to the set of "Soul Men" at the Strand Theatre.

The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating a rash of recent cattle killings.

Due to the threat of inclement weather both Shreveport and Bossier City has postponed the 2009 National Night Out.

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has declined a challenge to the way the death penalty is imposed in Louisiana, rejecting an appeal by a woman convicted for her role in a brutal New Year's Day attack on a retired minister.

A former Shreveport Police officer terminated by Chief Henry Whitehorn back in June has been arrested on one count of molestation of a juvenile following his indictment by a Caddo Parish Grand Jury.

Shreveport Police detectives are looking for a local man wanted for striking a patrol officer with a vehicle.

Shreveport Police say there's still no sign of the suspect who sped away from a traffic stop, crashing into a Shreveport City Marshal's car in the process.

Shreveport Police need your help in locating a man wanted in connection with a carjacking.

Shreveport Coca-Cola Bottling Company's new warehouse and distribution facility will more than double its docking capacity when it opens next fall.

HOLLY BEACH, La. - Before two hurricanes hit in three years, a collection of modest beach houses and trailers along the Gulf known as the "Cajun Riviera" drew thousands for summer weekends of crabbing, beer drinking and kids playing in the surf.

The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office says a 38-year-old firefighter from Shreveport has been arrested for stealing more than $500 his department collected for charity.