Shreveport News

By MELINDA DESLATTE / Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. -- Attempts to raise tuition at Louisiana's public colleges appear dead for the session, despite concerns about repeated rounds of budget cuts to schools.

The Louisiana House gave final passage to the bill by Shreveport Rep. Barbara Norton with a 90-1 vote Tuesday, sending it to the governor's desk.

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The act of buckling up, studies have shown, remains the most effective means of preventing injury and death in an automobile crash.

A Louisiana-based restaurant chain has agreed to pay more than $100,000 in back wages to 135 chefs and servers following a Labor Department investigation.

Not even a week ago, an East Texas business was hit hard by a tornado. And now Five Starr Builders in Waskom is bracing for more.

The Lafayette Consolidated Council approved the 30-Day Amnesty Program. The program gives a break to delinquent traffic ticket holders.

Insights into Physician Satisfaction : Deloitte's annual survey of physicians reveals checkered attitudes about the future of medicine and the use of EHR technology.

The National Weather Service is Shreveport has issued a tornado watch for northwest Louisiana until 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Christus Health will close Sutton Children's Medical Center in Shreveport as it moves services from Christus Schumpert St.

Louisiana's ethics board says an LSU Board of Supervisors member can serve on the governing board and also lead a private group that wants to take over operation of LSU's Shreveport hospital.

Hi, we're the graduating 8th grade class of Southfield Middle School in Shreveport, LA.

Some families come together over Sunday dinners. Others utilize the holidays for family bonding.

"As those figures, the sales tax revenue began to decline and the number of people in the parish, our spending needed to come into check," says District 2 school board member Neil Henderson.

A tiny device that can recharge cell phone batteries in as little as 30 seconds won 18-year-old Eesha Khare a major science award that will help fund her college education at Harvard University.

Shreveport Fire Officials tell KTBS 3 News that a tank fire was the result of a seal rupture on the Jewella side of the refinery.

A man sought in connection with a shooting Sunday afternoon that left another man wounded has surrendered, Shreveport police said.

Frederick Gipson, 33, was arrested Saturday night on one count of second degree homicide for the shooting of 20-year-old Buford Johnson.

The Gardens of the American Rose Center at Shreveport temporarily has closed its gates as a result of severe storm damage today.

I recently accompanied my father to the Shreveport VA hospital for his tests and appointments.