Two adults and six children were able to escape a mid-afternoon fire without injury. Firefighters were called to the 2800 block of West Maple just after 3:45 and arrived to find heavy smoke and flames coming from the rear of the house.
State health officials have confirmed 13 more cases of West Nile virus infection in Louisiana during the past week. More than half of those cases were confirmed here in Caddo Parish.
A boil water advisory will be in effect from 10 o'clock tonight (Thursday) until it's lifted by state health officials for residents and businesses along a portion of Benton Road.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal spent most of the day today surveying the Texas-Mexico border in McAllen, TX, and getting briefed on border activities by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Six more West Nile virus cases have been confirmed in Louisiana this week. The Department of Health and Hospitals says three of those new cases were the most serious neuroinvasive disease and all three of them were here in Caddo Parish.
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The Breitbart Report is reporting that a number of illegal immigrants are being transported by federal agents utilizing vans rather than using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) buses.The theory is the vans fly under the radar, while the large buses draw too much attention from local residents.
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