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KREWE SOBEK JOYOUSLY CELEBRATES ITS XX ANNIVERSARY

BATON ROUGE, La. – Clean, renewable energy able to power 12,000 homes is coming to north Caddo Parish in the form of a solar power plant near Hosston, according to Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell. The 72-megawatt “Rocking R” solar facility near the Louisiana 2 exit off Interstate 49 will be built by D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments and the power sold to SWEPCO in a long-term agreement, according to a plan approved unanimously by the Louisiana PSC. “SWEPCO has been a leader among Louisiana electric companies in using renewable wind power from Oklahoma, Texas and other states,” Campbell said. “This North Caddo project brings more clean and economical energy to SWEPCO customers along with jobs in construction and investment in Louisiana. It is also a power-purchase agreement, meaning SWEPCO will make no profit on the sale of the solar power to its customers.”

Celebrating its centennial year, South Highlands Elementary Magnet School is entering a new century with a title only it can hold. Last Friday, the school was named by the U.S. Department of Education as a 2022 National Blue Ribbon School, making South Highlands the only school in north Louisiana and the first public elementary school in the state to earn the honor three times.

This week is Extra Yard for Teachers Week across the nation, and the Independence Bowl Foundation is proud to announce that in conjunction with Extra Yard for Teachers and a grant from the Louisiana Department of Revenue, the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl has donated $45,986 to local teachers.

A Bossier sheriff's school resource officer performed a heroic act last week when he saved the life of a middle school student who was choking.

A woman who was shot and mortally wounded in Shreveport's Mooretown neighborhood late Friday, Sept. 16, has been named by the Caddo Parish Coroner's Office.

The following mugshots are those of persons arrested in Bossier Parish for violent or sexually related crimes from Sept. 1-20. All were booked into the Bossier Maximum Security Facility.

Shreveport police have arrested and charged a man that they suspect shot a driver in Shreveport last week.