Bossier City News

More people face charges in connection with an ongoing investigation into multiple forgery rings in the Shreveport/Bossier City area.

The City of Bossier City is updating residents on many of the parish's weather-related issues and included helpful phone numbers to report damage and problems.

The Bossier-Shreveport Veterans Day parade is set for Saturday at 10 a.m. It will be at Bossier Parish Community College, 6220 E. Texas St.

The Dogwood Trail bridge and an intersecting portion of Stockwell Road will be closed for two weeks while emergency officials shore up levee reinforcements in that area and begin calculating the million-dollar tab for recovery efforts from the storms that hit Oct.

A 16-year-old girl was punched in the back of the head, raped and had her purse stolen by a man who approached her from behind as she was walking along Old Benton Road early Sunday morning, a Bossier City spokesman said.

Bossier Parish officials announced Tuesday morning that a previous evacuation advisory issued for some Bossier residents has been downgraded.

Twelve day care centers, including three in the New Orleans area, have lost their state operating licenses because of safety concerns, the state Department of Social Services announced Tuesday, as it wrapped up a new round of inspections.

Bayou levels not seen in almost two decades could hit the homes and neighborhoods near the Red Chute Bayou in south Bossier Parish.

Thursday's storm sparked a huge fire at a Bossier City town home complex. It all started when a power pole snapped in half along Benton Road north of Interstate-220. A fire then started at one of the buildings inside the Green Acres Place Town Homes.

Officials urged residents near the Red Chute Bayou levee in Bossier City to leave their homes Sunday as water continued to spill over the top and a breach seemed possible.

Bossier City Police Chief Mike Halphen says access to the northeast Bossier City neighborhoods in the vicinity of Red Chute Bayou and Flat River are restricted only to persons who reside in those areas.

Residents living in the vicinity of Red Chute Bayou and Flat River in northeast Bossier City have been advised of anticipated street flooding, say Bossier City Police officials.

Even the people who prepare and plan for storms like the ones seen Thursday are not immune to problems.

While residents in some Western and Plains states were digging out Friday after an early blast of snow, heavy rain and strong winds that toppled trees, power lines and church steeples lashed parts of the South, leaving one person dead.

Beckett Street at Benton Road is closed due to high water in Bossier City, and there are reports of street flooding in the vicinity of Shed Road and James Street.

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has issued a precautionary boil advisory for about 50 Bossier City homes.

RUSTON - Louisiana Tech University is getting $951,000 to help teachers learn how to excite students about cyberspace and science in general.

Interstate 20, near the 30-mile marker in Bossier Parish, is closed to traffic while crews clear trees that have fallen on the highway, according to Bossier sheriff's office.

Yes, Bossier City can help plug its $6.5 million budget hole by eliminating its projected 2010 city bus service payment of $768,000. And, yes, Councilman David Jones' proposal to save the jobs of the politically potent - police and firefighters - would come at the expense of those with the least ability to push back.

After an evaluation by federal authorities, the Bossier City Fire Department's bomb squad will maintain its accreditation for another five years.