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Recruitment has opened for Louisiana Economic Development’s SEBD Roundtables for small business owners participating in Louisiana’s Small and Emerging Business Development Program. Beginning in July and August, the innovative peer-topeer learning program will convene groups of 12 to 15 business leaders for a yearlong experience of collaborative learning and problem solving.

Keen Independent Research firm will conduct the disparity study funded by the city of Shreveport, Caddo Parish and the Caddo- Bossier Port Commission.

Over a period of a few hours, the Bossier City Police Department received four complaints about a phone scam in which callers are posing as Bossier City Police Department officials.

Nolan Washington, aka “Slim Thug,” 35, of Shreveport, was sentenced to 120 months (10 years) in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for drug trafficking.

Caddo sheriff’s deputies arrested an unlicensed Shreveport contractor after failing to complete a home improvement job costing the victim thousands of dollars, said Sheriff Steve Prator.

Detectives with the Shreveport Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit have made an arrest in connection with the murder of a woman in south Shreveport.

A Shreveport man is behind bars again after Caddo sheriff’s narcotics agents found methamphetamine, guns and drug paraphernalia in his home, said Sheriff Steve Prator.

Violent crime is literally killing Shreveport and its citizens. State, parish and city elected officials, the business community, criminal justice professionals, colleges and universities, churches and other places of worship, the media and our citizens all have a part to play and must work as a team if we expect to reduce violent crime.