Benton News

Calvary Baptist Church will have a special service at 10 a.m. today to honor soldiers killed and wounded last week at the Army's Fort Hood in Texas.

A public hearing is on the agenda for the City Council's regular meeting, set for 3 p.m. in chambers at Government Plaza, 505 Travis St.

Senior citizens with Medicare cards may get free flu and pneumonia shots from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Hirsch Memorial Coliseum as part of Senior Day at the State Fair of Louisiana in Shreveport.

Recent floodwaters have gotten more than just local human residents stirred up. Mosquitoes appear to have been extra active following October's record rains.

RonStroope shot this video on October 29. He saw the dark funnel clouds over downtown Shreveport as he approached the church.

Veterans Day will be a special occasion for Benton's Dale Whipple, who will spend it in the nation's capital, honoring fallen comrades in Arlington National Cemetery.

Shreveport's downtown YMCA was damaged Thursday afternoon as fallout from a tornado ripped tiles from the roof of the landmark building built in 1924.

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

Sandbags are available to Bossier Parish residents beginning at 8 a.m. today in anticipation of flooding from heavy rains that likely will set a new record for precipitation in October.

The Shreveport-Bossier City area once again exhibited its better side for the 40 nationally qualified anglers who competed here over the weekend for the Academy Sports + Outdoors Women's Bassmaster Tour Championship.

Voters in parts of eight northwest Louisiana parishes can head to the polls today for elections ranging from tax increases and renewals to filling council posts.

When the Academy Sports + Outdoors Women's Bassmaster Tour Championship casts off Friday out of the Cypress Black Bayou ramp in Benton, don't expect the throngs of visiting media and hours of ESPN television coverage that the Bassmaster Classic attracted here in February.

For those who follow the Women's Bassmaster Tour, this weekend's Tour Championship has been relocated.

Many people in north Bossier Parish woke up to rising floodwaters. Other families woke to the smell of sewer water.

N. BOSSIER PARISH, LA - A North Bossier Parish resident complained of water and sewage seeping into her home from the recent rain.

Sons of Italy and St. Jude Catholic Church will hold their second annual Bocce Ball Tournament on Sunday from 1 p.m. until at 3800 Viking Drive, Bossier City.

Stockwell Place Elementary principal Tim Thompson, who was arrested Sept. 18 on misdemeanor DWI and other traffic charges, requested retirement Friday from the Bossier public school system.

A Bossier Parish elementary school principal is still working after being arrested near Benton on a series of misdemeanor charges, including drunken driving and speeding.

Executive Women International of Shreveport-Bossier City will hold its monthly meeting at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at DiamondJacks Casino Resort, 711 DiamondJacks Blvd., in Bossier City.

Bossier sheriff's investigators are asking the public for help identifying and locating a man who stole some beer and tried to rob Red River Travel Plaza in Elm Grove on Thursday night.