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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Wednesday joined Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) in introducing the Animal Cruelty Enforcement (ACE) Act, which would establish an Animal Cruelty Crimes Section within the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Violent crimes have dominated the news in recent months, and it sometimes seems as if nothing is being done successfully to stem the tide of violence in our community and in our nation.

I attend Northwest Louisiana Council of Governments (NLCOG) meetings. I am interested in how our Infrastructure system became so fouled up. Best I can tell, COGs were formed by the federal government back in the 1900s to give small, dysfunctional governments some control over larger dysfunctional governments outside in other parishes.

Expect to see a new patriotic look when attending upcoming basketball games at CenturyLink Center. “It was time to refurbish our basketball floor after years of use,” says Rebecca Bonnevier, ASM Global general manager of CenturyLink Center. “We are steadily and carefully planning for our future events and needed to replace worn boards, add a sleek shine and update the look of it.”

The Caddo Sheriff’s Office Personnel Division will hold a recruitment event from 9 a.m. until noon Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Sheriff’s Re-Entry Facility, 1121 Forum Drive, next to the Caddo Correctional Center.

Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington says a skull found in the water at a Highway 160 bridge near Ivan Lake on June 19 has been positively identified.

Violent crimes detectives with the Shreveport Police Department have jailed a man believed to be responsible for the armed robbery of a pizza delivery driver in west Shreveport last Monday evening and the stabbing of a man earlier this morning.

Shreveport police are searching for a woman believed responsible for the stabbing death of a man in west Shreveport Monday night.