Two people are dead, multiple others injured, after a shooting in Shreveport overnight. Shreveport Police say it happened in a vacant lot on Poland Street around where a crowd of people was gathered around one this morning. We’re told multiple victims were hit by gunfire, with two victims dying at the scene. Others were taken by ambulance and private vehicles to Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport. So far, there’s no word on suspects.
A Calcasieu Parish jury has found a southwest Louisiana man guilty of murder in the brutal death of a 72-year-old woman in 2023. District Attorney Stephen Dwight says after 43-year-old Christopher Cater killed Sheila Ortega, he drove around with the woman’s body for a month…
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It took just over an hour for a jury to convict Cater of first-degree murder and unlawful disposal of remains. He will face sentencing on an identity theft charge October 7th.
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The longtime face of New Orleans Mardi Gras is calling it a career. Arthur Hardy, the longtime publisher of the Mardi Gras Guide magazine, says after a half century, the 2026 edition will be his last.
The Mardi Gras Guide is now published by Georges Media and will continue to bear Hardy’s name.
We are looking at a dry weekend across the state and abnormally dry conditions have developed across south Louisiana and along the Arkansas border. State Climatologist Jay Grymes says nearly half of the state is on the verge of drought conditions according to the Drought Monitor…