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A man who was caught on camera stealing from another person’s garage was arrested last week on a charge of burglary.

A man was arrested after he committed a battery on his pregnant girlfriend last week.

A woman was arrested for theft last week after she stole a couple of appliances from an apartment.

~BOSSIER PARISH~

Patrick Mahomes signs 10-year extension, largest sports contract … ever

How was your holiday weekend? Ours was filled with family, fun, food and fireworks. We had our entire crew home for a week. We played games, went swimming, did cooking, had dance contests, movie watching.. It’s not the events that matter as much as the time spent together.

The City of Shreveport collects various taxes, fees, assessments, fines and other items which generate revenue to its coffers. By far the greatest of these deposited into the general fund is the 2.75% sakes tax.

“Economic forces eventually conspired against South Park Mall. As AT&T and GM began pulling out of Shreveport, South Park Mall began to feel the effects. Montgomery Ward closed in 1999. JC Penney closed the following year. Crime, or at least the perception of crime, at the mall was an issue. A teenager was shot in the head in the mall parking lot in 1999. And in 2000, a 73- year-old man was the victim of an armed robbery in a mall bathroom. The mall's decline eventually led to its demise.” — Excerpts from an article published in The Times July 19, 2019, that spoke to the closing of two malls in the Shreveport- Bossier Area.