Tuesday, May 22 2012 12:33 AM EDT2012-05-22 04:33:12 GMT
Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade is reminding Texas voters they have until Friday, May 25th to vote early in the May 2012 primary elections. More >>
Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade is reminding Texas voters they have until Friday, May 25th to vote early in the May 2012 primary elections. More >>
Monday, May 21 2012 10:47 PM EDT2012-05-22 02:47:09 GMT
What started out as a criminal trespass call, ended up with a Texarkana man facing numerous charges with the Texarkana, Texas Police Department Monday.More >>
What started out as a criminal trespass call, ended up with a Texarkana man facing numerous charges with the Texarkana, Texas Police Department Monday.More >>
NEW BOSTON, TX (KSLA) -
Workers began setting up a new security system on Friday at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston.
Bowie County Sheriff James Prince says the idea of improving security started in October 2010, six months before the death of Bowie County Sheriff's Deputy Sherri Jones. Jones was shot in April with her own gun by an inmate that she was escorting from a hearing.
"What we are trying to do right now is do everything we can to protect the citizens of Bowie County and anybody that comes inside this courthouse," says Prince.
Prince says a $154,000 federal grant allowed them to install several cameras, alarms and other security equipment. Money has also been set aside to hire additional security employees.
Prince added that although the county is making the courthouse more safe, what happened to Jones will never be forgotten.
"Well, it will always be in the officers's minds what happened here in the courthouse when Sherri was murdered and it is something we will carry with us for the rest of our lives," says Prince. "As far as deputy Jones when she was killed, the equipment we are installing now would not have prevented her murder."
Prince says crews are working almost around the clock to get the surveillance cameras up and he hopes to have all the courthouse changes finished by the end of the week.
Monday, May 21 2012 2:49 PM EDT2012-05-21 18:49:25 GMT
(RNN) - Now the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, so you have to take the good and take the bad – take them both and there you have television show theme songs that everyone knows and loves. TVMore >>
Will Smith rapped the entire theme song to his '90s sitcom Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on a British talk show along with the audience. We all have those theme songs we know and love.More >>
Monday, May 21 2012 6:07 PM EDT2012-05-21 22:07:28 GMT
A wreck involving a Rapides Parish school bus and an 18-wheeler has shut down a major intersection and forced police to re-route traffic in downtown Shreveport.More >>
Traffic is flowing again through a major downtown Shreveport intersection, after a wreck involving a Rapides Parish school bus and an 18-wheeler early Monday afternoon. More >>
Sunday, May 20 2012 11:58 PM EDT2012-05-21 03:58:30 GMT
For rising star and Shreveport native, JC Jones, a performance at the blue goose music festival meant more than a show. "It was really important to me to perform at home, because I really wanted to sendMore >>
For rising star and Shreveport native, JC Jones, a performance at the Blue Goose Music Festival meant more than a show. The festival was canceled unexpectedly Saturday night before performances began. More >>
Monday, May 21 2012 10:10 AM EDT2012-05-21 14:10:07 GMT
(WMC-TV) – Facebook is apologizing to the mother who was temporarily banned from posting photos to the popular social networking site. Heather Walker spoke with Action News 5 after she was temporarilyMore >>
Facebook is apologizing to the mother who was temporarily banned from posting photos to the popular social networking site.More >>
Monday, May 21 2012 5:06 PM EDT2012-05-21 21:06:35 GMT
(RNN) - A Cartersville, GA, man has become the third case of necrotizing fasciitis to make headlines in recent weeks, coming just weeks after a 24-year-old Georgia woman lost her foot and both handsMore >>
A Georgia man has become the third case of necrotizing fasciitis to make headlines in recent weeks, just as two women are being treated for the condition in southern hospitals.More >>
Sunday, May 20 2012 9:30 PM EDT2012-05-21 01:30:06 GMT
NATCHEZ, Mississippi – Facility staff, along with local and state law enforcement officials and officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) are in the process of quelling an inmate disturbance atMore >>
Prison officials and Federal Bureau of Prisons are attempting to calm a riot that began early Sunday afternoon.More >>
Monday, May 21 2012 10:07 PM EDT2012-05-22 02:07:26 GMT
One person was injured, families are being evacuated and US 190 is shut down at Bueche Road between Port Allen and Erwinville due to a chemical fire.More >>
One person was injured, families were evacuated and US 190 is shut down at Bueche Road between Port Allen and Erwinville due to a chemical fire.More >>
Monday, May 21 2012 1:01 PM EDT2012-05-21 17:01:06 GMT
(CNN) – There is new trouble for the former International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He could soon face new charges in the alleged gang rape of a Belgian prostitute during a party atMore >>
He was indicted by a French court for his role in what has been termed the "Carlton Affaire," an alleged prostitution ring in North France.More >>
Bowie County Sheriff James Prince (far right)
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