Crime

A mobile home in Keithville, La., appears to be a total loss after catching fire Wednesday night., The double-wide mobile home at the corner of Vardaman and Berry roads, sustained heavy damage, easily visible from the road.

Two juvenile escapees from group homes, Jordan Cannon and Anthony Mandigo Jr., are back behind bars and moving through the criminal justice system.

A Sabine Parish woman who promoted her alleged use of drugs via a Snapchat post remains in jail following her arrest last week on multiple charges, Sheriff Aaron Mitchell said in a news release.

A Shreveport man who was killed in a motor vehicle collision in Greenwood early Thursday, Dec. 28, has been identified.

Bossier Parish sheriff’s detectives have arrested Benton man for possessing pornography involving juveniles.

A juvenile fugitive who has been on the run since his escape from a group home on Sept. 8 is back in custody.

Despite a decline in homicides in 2021 and 2022, Shreveport experienced a total of 74 killings in 2023, the second-most since at least 2010, according to the Caddo Parish Coroner's Office.

In a surprising and inexplicable display of political expediency and hubris, Governor John Bel Edwards has done something that people like me never thought he would do. He pardoned 40 murderers and has yet to explain his reasoning.