Shreveport authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying the gunman or gunmen who opened fire at a July 4th block party that resulted in four deaths and seven injuries. Council member Tabitha Taylor expressed her sadness and anger.
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Gunfire erupted in Shreveport’s MLK neighborhood around midnight Tuesday night. About 200 people were at the annual event.

South of New Orleans, the Corps of Engineers plans to build an underwater dame in the Mississippi River to keep salt water from the Gulf of Mexico from advancing upstream. Corps spokesperson Ricky Boyette says low river levels on the Mississippi is allowing the saltwater to move upstream…
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Boyette says it’s a project they’ve done before.

TRIP a national transportation research group, says Louisiana traffic fatalities jumped 21-percent from 2019 to 2022, costing an estimated 37-billion dollars in economic and quality of life costs….
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Governor John Bel Edwards was in Bunkie this morning to break ground on the largest high-speed internet project to date that’s funded by the GUMBO program. According to the governor’s office, the project will bring high-speed affordable internet to 91-hundred households and 535 small businesses in Avoyelles Parish.