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Shreveport Police Sergeant discusses Centaur parade safety/traffic/parking.

After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and following the debate over guns and schools, Bossier schools have taken positions on what they feel is the best way to keep students safe.

Happy New Year! Along with that comes the plea to remember that what goes up, must come down. It's like physics and gravity and stuff.

Sign Up Saturday...what a fun event! Lots of folks turned out from 10 to 2 Saturday to check out great health, safety and sign-up info for the kids. My good friend Margaret met my little girl and me at the Bossier Civic Center for it. Though Emma wasn't exactly the "target age" for the activities, she still had a great time...

I know it's been said before, but it bears repeating...be SAFE this July 4th! Local police and firefighters have tips on what you need to do to keep from being hurt, or hurting others, while you're celebrating.  Police Sgt. Bill Goodin says police officers will be working hard to make sure everyone's following laws and city ordinances and being respectful of others...

You can now buy and discharge fireworks in Bossier City. Today through July 5th, you can set off your fireworks between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. Tents that have popped up all over town earlier this week are stocked today and ready for business ...

While the government says school buses are the safest mode of transportation for students, it’s been a dangerous past few months for buses in East Texas.

Fireworks are already being sold and allowed to be discharged in Shreveport.  That started at noon on December 15th.  In Bossier City, fireworks can't be sold or discharged for the upcoming holiday until Friday, the 23rd.  You can shoot off fireworks in Shreveport until 10 p...

The Shreveport Police Department will be putting additional officers out on the street to specifically target those violent criminals who would commit armed robberies.

Not a whole lot of tickets written yesterday at a Bossier City checkpoint. The police department conducted the checkpoint in the 700 block of Barksdale Boulevard from 2 to 6 yesterday afternoon. It focused on seat belt use. Officers checked just over 280 vehicles and issued 17 citations to motorists who weren't wearing seat belts -- and one to a motorist who failed to have a child in the proper sa