Shreveport News

Shreveport Police detectives are investigating a shooting that sent a local woman to the hospital Saturday morning.

Apple pie. Fireworks. Stormy Daniels. It was an unusual Fourth of July mix in Shreveport and Monroe, as the adult film star brought her self-titled "listening tour" to some of the more conservative parts of Louisiana.

The shooting of a man at a park in southeast Shreveport, the beating of a man by his co-worker at a local auto dealership and the discovery of a slain woman and her 3-year-old son inside their west Shreveport residence are among the 16 homicides that have chilled the community this year.

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is a few weeks away from recommending a new federal judge for the Western District of Louisiana.

Shreveport police are searching a SporTran bus for two men who robbed a gas station on Linwood Avenue just before 11 a.m. today but were fired on by the clerk.

Members of the board that oversees Shriners Hospital in Shreveport are discussing a partnership with LSU Health Sciences Center in hopes of keeping the Shriners facility open.

The federal Department of Health and Hospitals is giving Louisiana $411.7 million in Recovery Act grants to 24 community health centers around Louisiana.

Shreveport Police have made an arrest in the city's 17th homicide of the year. 22 year old Antonio Gladney was shot at at the Raceway on Hearne Avenue in Shreveport on June 19th after a confrontation at a Bossier City nightclub earlier that night.

The company said Tuesday the contract sustains about 150 jobs at Boeing plants in Wichita and Oklahoma City and at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, La.

The Shreveport Fire Department and Caddo Fire District 5 are working to forge a stronger partnership that leaders of both agencies say will enhance local residents' safety.

Porn star Stormy Daniels kicks off a second "listening tour" this week at a gun store in Lafayette as she publicizes a possible run for U.S. Senate.

A guilty plea and life sentence have ended a case in which two men were accused of kidnapping and raping a Houston woman, then putting her in the trunk of her rented car and setting it on fire while she was still alive.

A man who was shot outside of a Shreveport gas station on June 19 has died. Antonio Gladney, 22, died at LSU Hospital in Shreveport about 3:45 p.m. on Saturday, said Bill Goodin, spokesman for Shreveport Police Department.

BATON ROUGE - While approving funding that reduced cuts to higher education and health care, state lawmakers also included $34 million to fund select projects in their districts.

An Ark-La-Tex park became the sight of an attempted murder early Saturday morning.

In a potential blow for Louisiana, the Chinese government is likely to reject a bid by one of that nation's industries to buy the Hummer unit of General Motors Corp., according to a report by China National Radio.

Representatives of Lowe's Home Improvement Store and Shreveport firefighters went door to door in Shreveport's Cedar Grove neighborhood and installed more than 100 smoke detectors free of charge today.

A two-vehicle accident at Hearne Avenue at Corbitt Street late today sent eight people to two Shreveport hospitals, with none of the injuries life-threatening, firefighters say.

In the days after reports that General Motors Corp. will allow its Shreveport operations to close by no later than summer 2012, hope persists that Chinese manufacturer Sichuan Tengzhong will rush to the rescue.

A permanent video record of a recent performance by Shreveport rapper Hurricane Chris on the floor of the Louisiana Legislature is making the Internet rounds.