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The remnants of Tropical Storm Earl have spun toward Nova Scotia, still packing high winds and rain but leaving little damage behind More>>
Sentencing has been postponed for 35 year old Satonia Small, the Shreveport mother facing a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for her conviction on second-degree murder in the death of her six year old daughter. More>>
Shreveport Police are investigating a police-involved shooting incident. It happened around 5:45 PM near Woodlawn High School at the intersection of Brushy Lane and Wyngate Blvd in the Cedar Grove residential area. More>>
Caddo deputies arrest a Texarkana, Arkansas man for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl. More>>
Police are investigating a shooting in Marshall, where one woman died. More>>
The four victims from Monday's quadruple homicide at the Fairview North Trailer Park were identified by authorities on Tuesday. More>>
Two people are hospitalized following a stabbing at a nightclub in east Lubbock. More>>
Shreveport Police have arrested a suspect in an early morning drive-by shooting. This happened just after midnight this morning. More>>
The Franklin Parish District Attorney's Office says a grand jury will consider allegations that Winnsboro's animal shelter kept dogs in illegal conditions. More>>
Authorities say a piece of human bone that was found near Saratoga in southwest Arkansas may be from a man who disappeared 18 years ago. More>>
Authorities say a woman intentionally ran down her husband with her car and rolled over him several times, killing the man. More>>
A former employee at the Caddo Juvenile Detention Center is accused of battering an inmate. More>>
By Brittany Pieper – email MANY, LA (KSLA) –An officer involved shooting in Many, LA is still under investigation. Sunday morning police responded to an early morning disturbance call at Middle Creek More>>
Shreveport Police are looking for a man in connection with a robbery at the Capitol One Bank in the 6100 block of Greenwood Road. More>>
The Calcasieu Sheriff's Department is reporting that there has been a quadruple homicide at Fairview North Trailer Park in Lake Charles. More>>
The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office reports Tuesday the arrest of a Bossier City teen for alleged check forgery. More>>
A sobriety checkpoint held over the Labor Day holiday weekend by the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office resulted in six arrests. More>>
A North Caddo, Louisiana doctor faces an alleged stalking charge, according to the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office. More>>
Four children and their mother escape a fire Monday morning at their home on the 1100 block of 10th Street. More>>
Associated Press - September 7, 2010 2:34 PM ET BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Bobby Jindal is ordering the flags at all state buildings to be flown at half-staff this week, to memorialize... More>>
According to a press release from the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office, Roark found a black duffel bag in the back of the vehicle. When asked about the bag, the two men said there was a meth lab inside of it. More>>
Associated Press - September 7, 2010 2:04 PM ET LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - A 26-year-old woman originally from Slidell is identified as the fourth victim of a quadruple killing in a trailer park... More>>
Associated Press - September 7, 2010 12:44 PM ET LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso says all four victims of a trailer park killing have been identified, but one... More>>
According to the crash report from the Missouri Highway Patrol there were a total of 18 vehicles involved. In the vehicles were 33 people. Out of those 33 people 26 were injured, 4 of them seriously. The crash happened around noon in the eastbound lanes of U.S. 60 near Essex in Stoddard County. More>>
A 2-year-old who slipped into a pool and nearly drowned Sunday is recovering at the hospital. The incident happened at a home off Chapel Hill Drive in Richmond subdivision near Watson. More>>
Police said Darrell Garner, 36, of Baker went to a hospital room inside Baton Rouge General Medical Center-Mid City, argued with his estranged wife and her boyfriend, and then shot both of them. More>>
The National Black Farmers Association announced Tuesday morning plans to ask the U.S. Senate to fund a historic discrimination case settlement. More>>
A dog was stolen from a popular pet store in Bossier City, Louisiana called Critter Company on Benton Road. More>>
Louisiana State Police identified the driver, male passenger and the Many, Louisiana police officer Monday, that were involved in a shooting early Sunday morning. More>>
A cigarette lighter is believed to have sparked a fire that forced an East Texas family to flee their home. More>>
The lights went out in parts of St. Bernard Parish Monday September 6th, and left the residents with quite a mess to clean up. More>>
Tyler Police are searching to find a pair of pick-up trucks that were shooting at each other as they drove down the road. More>>
Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s. More>>
If you frequently travel on LA 3132 in Caddo Parish, this traffic alert is for you. More>>
A fire official says 27 horses were killed in a fire near the Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in West Virginia. More>>
JACKSON, MS (AP) - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against a doctor convicted of molesting a 13-year-old Mississippi boy during a trip to the Independence Bowl football game in Louisiana in 2002. Hinds More>>
A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times. More>>
A former Army soldier seeking help for mental problems at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded him to surrender. More>>
A Bossier City animal control officer and a young girl are bitten after an apparent dog attack. More>>
At least two parishes are working together to combat a large brush fire along the shoreline near the Lake Bistineau Dam. More>>
Associated Press - September 6, 2010 3:24 PM ET LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso says four people were killed in a mobile home in a trailer park near Lake... More>>
Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday. More>>
GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes pill Avandia should be pulled from the U.K. market because of concerns that the drug can increase the risk of heart attacks, British drug regulators said Monday. More>>
Associated Press - September 6, 2010 5:55 AM ET HILLSBORO, Texas (AP) - A six-month old baby was killed when a van carrying a family lost control on Interstate 35 in central Texas and flipped... More>>
A team of NASA doctors and engineers recommended Friday that Chilean authorities regulate the day-and-night sleep patterns of 33 trapped miners, boost their Vitamin D intake and phase in an exercise program as their... More>>
President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he's trying to stimulate the sputtering economy. More>>
Engineers have hoisted a key piece of evidence in the BP oil spill to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and investigators will soon get their first chance to scrutinize the equipment in person. More>>
Detectives from Louisiana State Police Troop E are still investigating an officer involved-shooting that took place in Sabine Parish early Sunday morning, September 5th. More>>
Associated Press - September 6, 2010 8:04 AM ET MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Hermine is getting a little stronger in the Gulf of Mexico as it heads toward the coasts of Texas and Mexico. More>>
The Gregg County fair that draws in thousands to east Texas has a few changes from previous years. More>>
A Lufkin man is dead after a brief police chase in south Texas. More>>
The top health officer in Kansas says high schoolers need to get more sleep, even if that means starting classes later. More>>
A lawyer says a JetBlue flight attendant infamous for jumping down a plane's emergency chute in New York City resigned from his job and wasn't fired by the airline. More>>
Officials says at least 38 people have been killed, including some rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud. More>>
A boil advisory has been issued for the Springlake Mobile Home Park Water System in Blanchard. More>>
Labor Day takes on a whole new meaning for thousands of veterans returning to East Texas from Iraq. More>>
Nearly a dozen states have filed a legal brief in support of Arizona's controversial immigration law. More>>
Three years after Congress mandated it, the Army Corps of Engineers has set up a special council to oversee the agency's massive projects in Louisiana, such as those to restore the eroded coast and build a robust levee system. More>>
The first song Brooks & Dunn ever sang together has become their last. More>>
A government official said Friday that a scientist has been detained in Miami after screeners found a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb. More>>
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned Friday from the resumption of Mideast negotiations in Washington to confront internal opposition to his peace moves, just as his Palestinian counterpart faced harsh... More>>
Associated Press - September 3, 2010 7:14 AM ET LONDON (AP) - BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. More>>
Associated Press - September 3, 2010 6:54 AM ET SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - The first football game ever between two schools that are more than a century old and only five miles apart is helping to... More>>
Early Thursday morning, a taxi driver employed by Action Taxi picked up a couple at the Walmart on Barksdale Highway and dropped near an apartment complex on East Stoner just before 2 a.m. As he pulled up to the complex, the woman put a gun to his head and demanded money. More>>
A state appeal court rules that police outside their own jurisdictions can sometimes arrest people on DWI charges if the drivers are creating an immediate danger. More>>
An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. More>>
There's improvement in the condition of a worker burned eight days ago in an explosion at a gas company compressor station. More>>
One man is in the hospital and another in custody after a late night shooting in Sabine Parish. More>>
The government has opened an investigation into possible steering problems in the 2011 Hyundai Sonata. More>>
Ferrari says it is recalling 1,248 of its 458 Italia supercars after reports of fires breaking out in five of the luxury vehicles in several countries. More>>
Tyler Police say a woman shot and killed her landlady today before turning the gun on herself on Tuesday. More>>
A Tyler, Texas man is behind bars after being accused of stealing a car, hitting another vehicle, fleeing the scene, and breaking into someone's home. More>>
Some men claiming to be good samaritan's are actually crooks according to Police. More>>
A man miraculously survives after an attempt to end it all in New York. More>>
The Coast Guard rescues four people after their plane crashes in the Gulf. More>>
The Texas Avenue Community Association is hoping to restore an area they say is vital to the region's history. April Dahm is president of TACA. She says she fell in love with Texas Avenue when she first drove down it. More>>
If you, or someone you know, are in need of clothes for school, a local church is helping out this fall. More>>
A charge of felony theft is going to a woman that allegedly stole jewelry from an east Texas jeweler. More>>
A federal judge who overturned the Obama administration's initial six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling has rejected the government's bid to have the court challenge thrown out. More>>
When Josilyne Horne heard that SWEPCO wanted to cut her beautiful Magnolia Tree down because of the power lines she felt sad. More>>
Mother of six, Martha Ellis says any technology to help prevent children from dying in hot cars would be helpful. Thanks to scientists from GM and NASA, that technology could be on its way to consumer vehicles. More>>
A man who railed against the Discovery Channel's environmental programming for years burst into the company's headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said. More>>
Police in suburban Washington say they're talking with a gunman who has taken hostages at the headquarters of the Discovery Channel networks. More>>
Caddo Sheriff's deputies arrested a Keithville teenager in the alleged rape of a 12-year-old runaway. More>>
Several Ark-La-Tex families sent the most important men in their lives to Iraq in March as combat troops. Even though the president announced the end of the combat efforts there, their boys aren't coming home. More>>
Local Army wives were told their husbands would lose combat pay in Iraq, but the Department of Defense says they were misinformed. More>>
Tyler Police are continuing to search for two men accused of assaulting a woman after rear-ending her car. More>>
A Shreveport man is charged with first degree murder after attempting to kill an SPD officer at the Greyhound Bus Station... More>>
A new boil advisory is in place for customers of the Village Water System in the Haughton area. More>>
An East Texas man is under arrest for having two wives. More>>
President Barack Obama is declaring Operation Iraqi Freedom to be over with the end of the U.S. combat mission, and says it's now time "to turn the page" to give the Iraqi people full responsibility for their own security. More>>
A Hathaway man recently came across something we see everyday...a utility pole - but this utility poll appeared to him differently than most. More>>
An inmate attempting to escape from a jail in Texarkana has died. Anthony Lewis, 30, fell five stories after trying to lower himself from the top of the Bi-State Justice Center. More>>
In a major drug bust in Shelby County, Texas, police have arrested 23 people. Among the arrested was the daughter of the Shelby County Sheriff. More>>
Some Centenary College students have come up with a new Android application using geo-tagging that draws its inspiration from the insect world and allows users to communicate in a whole new way. More>>
Officials with the Eagle Water System in Keithville, Louisiana rescinding a boil advisory that had been in place for some of its residents, Tuesday. More>>
Authorities in Texarkana, Arkansas released the name of an inmate who died after attempting to escape and Ark-La-Tex jail. More>>
Bossier City police report the arrest of a Bossier City for alleged rape of a 12-year-old boy. More>>
Nearly a month after a man was shot and killed by his own step-father following an altercation, the step-father is expected to head to court today with a possible plea of self-defense... More>>
Victor Stewart (Source: Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office)The Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office reports Monday the arrest of a Shreveport teen for alleged rape of two young boys ages 9 and 10. More>>
Caddo Parish is investigating an aggravated rape case, involving a teen. A 15 year-old boy is accused of raping an 8 year-old family member. More>>
The Texas Department of Public Safety is offering a $1,000 reward for information on an alleged sex offender who escaped custody over the weekend.
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American Muslims have launched a new web site they hope will defuse hostility over a proposed Islamic center near ground zero. More>>
An inmate fell five stories to the ground from the rooftop of Bi-State Justice Center , which is Texarkana's District Court. He fell after somehow scaling an enclosure topped with barbed wire. More>>
"It is a religion that promotes pedophilia, sex with children, " said comment Dr. Robert Jeffress during a taped church segment in Dallas. More>>
A Thibodaux police officer has been arrested in the alleged rape of a 22-year-old Nicholls State University student. More>>
A jury is hearing testimony in a civil case that accuses a New Orleans police officer of choking a man to death following a traffic stop. More>>
Some displaced Katrina victims from New Orleans lost their homes again in an apartment complex fire in Austin, Texas, on the fifth anniversary of the hurricane. More>>
Alabama's and Mississippi's governors are telling federal officials the Gulf coast states deserve more from oil wells drilled in the Gulf because the states are assuming great risks. More>>
The Sibley Water System is experiencing water problems and are asking customers to take precautions. More>>
The body of a Maine climber who fell 1,000 feet to his death in the Canadian Rockies more than two decades ago has been found in a melting glacier. More>>
Hollywood is finishing its summer with record revenue but the lowest actual movie attendance in five years. More>>
Government scientists say more women will be giving birth by C-section for the foreseeable future. More>>
Food and Drug Administration investigators have found rodents, seeping manure and even maggots at the Iowa egg farms believed to be responsible for as many as 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning. More>>
The toxicology report on the driver who caused a fatal Interstate 30 crash back in November 2009 returned Monday. More>>
Texarkana, Arkansas police investigate a two car accident Monday morning, which injured four people. More>>
On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Barack Obama is pledging his administration will stick with the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast until the job of rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina is done... More>>
Starting today West 70th street will be closed to thru traffic between Broadacres and Westport Avenue. More>>
Police in Lufkin are working to find more information on what led to two fatal shootings over the weekend. More>>
An innocent bystander is dead after an argument between two people ends in gunfire over the weekend. More>>
The 33 trapped Chilean miners who have astonished the world with their discipline a half mile underground will have to aid their own escape - clearing thousands of tons of rock that will fall as the rescue hole is drilled, the engineer in charge of drilling said Sunday. More>>
The death of a 13-year-old motorcycle rider at Indianapolis Motor Speedway cast a shadow over Sunday's races at the historic track and prompted mourning competitors to defend the development system for the dangerous circuit. More>>
Police say five people were killed by a man who entered a home in an Arizona community and started shooting, then fled with his two children. More>>
A man escaped severe injuries after the horse he was riding was hit by an on-coming car. More>>
The fright flick "The Last Exorcism" and the heist thriller "Takers" are in a photo finish for the top spot at the weekend box office. More>>
Ecuadorean officials say a bus has run off the road and plunged down a cliff, killing at least 36 people. More>>
Five years after Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast, people are pausing to remember and to mourn. More>>
President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor says that people who falsely believe the president is Muslim are the "enemy" and "psychopaths." More>>
Former Shreveport mayor James C. "Jim" Gardner, known as "Mr. Shreveport" and the city's "first citizen," has died. More>>
An American held captive for seven months in North Korea stepped off a plane in his hometown Friday, looking thin but joyful as he hugged the former president who had helped win his release and family and friends surrounded him in a group embrace... More>>
Police have arrested a woman in connection with a house fire in which a 2-year-old boy died... More>>
Hurricane Danielle has weakened a bit, and the now-Category 3 storm far out over the Atlantic is expected to keep losing strength. It is still expected to bring dangerous rip currents to the U.S. East Coast.... More>>
Associated Press - August 27, 2010 5:14 AM ET MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Danielle has become a Category 4 storm far out over the Atlantic. Danielle's maximum sustained winds increased... More>>
Power was restored to all of SWEPCO's customers who were without power this morning More>>
A man with what appeared to be a "drawn on" beard walked in the back door of the NewBridge bank on College Road and robbed it Thursday morning. More>>
Trestle where incident happened early FridayA man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a "ghost train" in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning. More>>
Entergy Arkansas, the state's largest electrical utility, is warning customers to be on the watch for scam artists offering help in paying electricity bills, but actually simply after money for themselves. More>>
The Louisiana Hospital Association says a campaign at more than 65 hospitals around the state has helped increase Louisiana's organ donor registry by 250,000 people - more than 15 percent - since last August. More>>
A water main break in one Shreveport neighborhood has forced the closure of Woodlawn High School for Friday. More>>
KSLA News 12 has just confirmed reports of a major fire in downtown Nashville, Arkansas. More>>
"She just wanted to go swimming with her little friends; she just drowned," says Christina Atkins, her mother. More>>
The boil advisory has been lifted for customers of the Jenkins Community Water system. More>>
A jury composed of 10-12 jurors has found Satonia Small guilty of 2nd degree murder in her daughter's death in a house fire, after she was allegedly accused of leaving her kids home alone back in 2007. More>>
By DAVID MERCER Associated Press Writer Millions of eggs from the Iowa farms at the heart of a massive salmonella recall are not destined for the garbage but for a table near you. More>>
Four people were arrested in Bossier Parish on Wednesday night on several charges that range from the promotion of prostitution to distribution of drugs to money laundering to racketeering More>>
A Shreveport native works to help military families after deployments. More>>
Fifteen people have been injured after a JetBlue Airbus made a hard landing in California, blowing four tires and catching fire, sparking an evacuation from the plane at Sacramento International Airport Thursday afternoon, CBS News Station KOVR-TV More>>
The Shreveport Police Department needs the public's help to find a woman who has not contacted her family since July 1, 2010. More>>
Two campuses for one of the main hospitals in the region will be undergoing some major changes. Christus Schumpert Health Systems announced Tuesday that they will trim down services at their St. Mary Place Campus to focus on the Sutton Children's Hospital, Women's Health Services and their Cancer Center More>>
A man hunt is underway right now in Shreveport for multiple suspects involved in burglaries... More>>
A manhunt is underway at this hour for a Hot Springs County, Arkansas escapee. More>>
A Huntington, Texas man forgot to drop his 3-month-old daughter off at daycare and found her in his car nearly seven hours later, according to a Lufkin Police investigation. More>>
A Texarkana, Texas child drown last night, even though the child was under adult supervision. More>>
A college student who did volunteer work in Afghanistan is charged with slashing a New York City cab driver after asking him whether he was Muslim. More>>
A Texarkana man is injured overnight while on the run from Police on a stolen motorcycle. More>>
There were many side effects to hurricane Katrina's damage, we quickly realized while covering it that gas was one of them. More>>
A federal jury has convicted an Iowa woman of illegally accessing President Barack Obama's student loan records. More>>
Exactly one year after a devastating fire destroyed the Shreveport Regional Arts Council's headquarters, the council announced its new permanent home with a big public festival. More>>
A 12-year-old Trinity boy was killed Tuesday night during a pursuit with law enforcement. More>>
A child that was near drowning is now at a Dallas hospital recovering this evening. More>>
Elora and Jeremy Edward didn't think they would ever live anywhere besides New Orleans, but when Hurricane Katrina hit everything changed. Now, they call Shreveport home. More>>
A Huntington man forgot to drop his 3-month-old daughter off at daycare and found her in his car nearly seven hours later, according to a Lufkin Police investigation. More>>
A BP vice president says critical time was wasted in the hours after the Gulf of Mexico well explosion trying to learn what changes had been made to a device meant to prevent oil from leaking from the blown-out well. More>>
15-year-old Jessica Jarrell is new on the pop music scene, but her message is one we've heard sung about time and time before…teenage love, but only this time it comes with a surprising ending. More>>
Associated Press - August 25, 2010 1:54 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairmen of the presidential panel investigating the Gulf oil spill are expressing disappointment that the Obama... More>>
