Shreveport News

SHREVEPORT, LA A Shreveport man has pled guilty to defrauding a charitable foundation and soon face up to 20 years in prison.

Shortly after 8pm, a family traveling from Arkansas had their van catch on fire in north Shreveport.

An Ark-La-Tex man is now dead and two others recovering in Shreveport hospitals following a major accident Thursday night in west Shreveport.

A Caddo Parish jury found a Shreveporter guilty of second-degree murder in an October 19, 2007 shooting death, according to a Caddo District Attorney's office news release.

Shreveport police Wednesday booked a local man on burglary and kidnapping charges.

Shreveport Police detectives are looking for a local man they believe robbed another man at his home in southeast Shreveport last week.

If you're looking for one of the 'South's best diners,' look no further than Kings Highway.

Following is an excerpt from the letter selected as Mighty Pen Award winner for the month of October.

The wind-ripped steeple of Shreveport's First United Methodist Church and the accompanying extraordinary survival tale certainly set the tone for this year's observance of All Saints Sunday.

Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover is scheduled tonight to receive an award for his business savvy.

Meteorologists from the National Weather Service set out Friday tracking the paths of the previous day's tornadoes, getting visual confirmation of the weather alerts they'd issued via uprooted trees, downed power lines and at least 100 damaged homes.

BATON ROUGE - Instead of worrying about whether the state has too many state universities, Louisiana needs to concentrate on making the ones it has the best they can be, an out-of-state expert serving on a state review panel says.

Southwestern Athletic Conference Commissioner Duer Sharp has announced the men's and women's basketball tournament is moving to Shreveport, La.

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.