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Shreveport police domestic violence investigators have a man behind bars for charges stemming from a Wednesday morning domestic violence incident turned shooting.

Trina Chu is a candidate for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. She is challenging incumbent Jeanette Garerrt.

Shreveport lawyer and judicial candidate Trina Chu has been suspended from the practice of law in the wake of criminal charges that, as a law clerk for an appeals court judge, she hacked into compu

Trina Chu is a candidate for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

The newly painted Bossier City water tower is up for Tank of the Year by Tnemec Company, Inc.

In a year of fighting a global pandemic, historic protests for racial equality, and the rapidly approaching presidential election, America needs journalists to bring them critical reporting. The events of this year have led to significant increases in traffic to news publisher websites, as Americans look to local journalists to inform them about the news and events in their communities. People trust and appreciate their local news publishers. But publishers are also losing tremendous advertising revenue because of the pandemic. And at a time when the public wants and needs quality news and information more than ever, the major tech platforms still refuse to compensate most news publishers, even while they pay creators for the ability to distribute music and lots of other kinds of content. Combined, these challenges have left numerous publishers across the country in danger of shuttering before the end of this election cycle, with even more disappearing before the next crisis.

Sadly, the killing of three black men in Shreveport this past Monday night is a continuing trend. A few days prior to those killings, two black men were killed and another was wounded, and prior to that a black man was killed, and his friend was gravely wounded.

Maybe you think it is too early to start thinking about my driver’s license renewal two months in advance. I think this is an often overlooked major event. I keep up with when my renewal comes up and whether it is a time that I can just do by the computer. If so, hooray! But if it is one I have to actually go into the DMV and get a new picture I start getting really, really nervous!