Shreveport

Chief Fire Safety Officer Scott Wolverton tells KEEL News the cause of the fire has been determined to be electrical in nature.  He says a power strip that had a battery charger plugged into it overheated and caught fire, causing the two-alarm fire Monday.  

Wolverton says the fire investigator estimates $20,000 in property damage to the city-owned warehouse.

A warehouse located near McWillie and Claiborne Avenues in Shreveport, near LSU Hospital burns. 

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Just after school let out Tuesday, a bus that had just left Southwood High School was involved in an accident on Walker Road, near Cedar Creek Drive.

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44-year-old Derek Daniel was arrested Wednesday outside Sam's Town Casino where detectives say he was metting a 14-year-old girl for sex.

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Shreveport Police detectives are investigating a purse snatching that occurred Thursday afternoon in broad daylight in downtown Shreveport.  But, police need your help in identifying and apprehending the suspect, and they're willing to pay up!

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Police detectives investigating a purse snatching that occurred Tuesday night in west Shreveport are releasing surveillance photos of a possible suspect.

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Travis Street will be closed between Edwards Street and Marshall on Thursday, Dec. 1, from 9 a.m. to noon.

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CHRISTUS Schumpert is once again calling all “Miracle Babies,” who have overcome the odds of prematurity and developmental problems in the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for the annual NICU Christmas Reunion.   The event will be Sunday, December 11 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Schumpert cafeteria. 

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The LSU Shreveport family will be taking part in several holiday activities, beginning with the lighting of the Christmas tree in the Dr. Lacy and Edie Williams Circle of Excellence Plaza at dusk on Wednesday, November 30. 

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Shreveport Caddo Parish Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a male suspect who brutally raped a female victim last night in west Shreveport.

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“Aluminum Overcast,” the Experimental Aircraft Association’s restored B-17 bomber, will descend upon Shreveport Downtown Airport in Shreveport, Louisiana on November 29-30 for one of nearly 70 tour stops scheduled for its 2011 “Salute to Veterans” national tour.

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