A local retired businessman has been sentenced to five years at hard labor after threatening to burn down the Horseshoe Casino.

A Bossier City police officer was arrested early Wednesday morning on charges of unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling and simple battery.

Bossier City police arrested a Shreveport man last week after they discovered a large amount of marijuana and cash inside his car during a traffic stop.

Bossier City Mayor Lorenz “Lo” Walker finally made the announcement citizens have awaited for several weeks: the naming of a new chief of police to succeed retiring chief Mike Halphen.

A once-thriving local millionaire is being accused of hiding assets and living high on the hog after filing for federal bankruptcy protection, and his scorned wife is seeking justice by exposing him and his mistress for spending millions of dollars on luxury items, including a luxury yacht and a jet.

A prominent Shreveport attorney has been arrested on a sex crime following an investigation conducted by Shreveport police.

A local handyman has a family outraged after he allegedly took her for everything she had and even convinced her to take out loans. Police say he even put her house up for sale.

When you take your client’s money and use it for your own use, you can have your law license taken away forever. That’s what Shreveport City Councilman Calvin Lester found out the hard way.

The Shreveport Airport Authority is on the short end of a parking fee contract — to the tune of over $700,000. Unbelievably, the Airport Authority has allowed its parking lot vendor, Nationwide Parking Services of Shreveport, to fall 10 months behind in collecting the full amount of its share of the parking fees. This recent disclosure could be devastating to the financial stability of the Airport Authority.

Two Shreveport Police patrol officers are being credited with some great police work following the seizure of a huge quantity of drugs and the arrest of suspected local drug dealers.