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Anyone who’s taken out a loan or bought a home with a mortgage knows they have to pay interest on the amount of the loan. The same is true for municipalities like the city of Shreveport.

Community Renewal operates 11 Friendship Houses in six Shreveport-Bossier City neighborhoods: Allendale In one of Shreveport’s distressed areas, with a large number of crime and unemployment. In 2022, two Friendship Houses opened and had an immediate impact on the crime rate and the education levels of youth in the neighborhood. Barksdale Annex In 2003, the first Barksdale Annex Friendship House opened, and taxi drivers returned a short time later. In 2009, the second Friendship House opened. Today, civic groups, faith groups, businesses and other groups work with the Friendship House to continue the renewal of the neighborhood.

The Caddo Parish Grand Jury returned five indictments, four for second-degree murder and associated crimes, in its session ending Thursday, Dec. 14.

Caddo Sheriff’s detectives arrested a 17-year-old juvenile for an attempted carjacking in Hosston, said Sheriff Steve Prator.

The officers involved in two separate deadly shootings that happened in Shreveport earlier in the year have been cleared by a grand jury, the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office reports.

Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington administered the Oath of Affirmation in a swearing-in ceremony for seven new deputies that have joined the Bossier Sheriff’s Office team.

A local Shreveport nightclub owner was arrested over the weekend in an apparent attempt to defend himself in a dispute over money with a rap artist.

On Tuesday, Dec. 12, the city of Shreveport's 2024 budget was adopted by the city council. The council made several amendments to the budget proposed by the Arceneaux administration. Many of these will, no doubt, be revisited next year as the city's financial posture becomes more of a reality.