Monday, May 20 2013 1:27 PM EDT2013-05-20 17:27:33 GMT
CHRISTUS Health Shreveport-Bossier is holding a news conference at 1 p.m. at CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center. KSLA News 12 will stream it lived on ksla.com. More >>
CHRISTUS Health Shreveport-Bossier is holding a news conference at 1 p.m. at CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center. More >>
Sunday, May 19 2013 1:35 AM EDT2013-05-19 05:35:45 GMT
Tree limbs still cover the ground on Barron road in south Caddo Parish, all thanks to a supercell thunderstorm that produced a downburst with winds up to 105 miles per hour.More >>
Tree limbs still cover the ground on Barron road in south Caddo Parish, all thanks to a supercell thunderstorm that produced a downburst with winds up to 105 miles per hour.More >>
SWEPCO outage update, 10 a.m. Wednesday:
As of 6 p.m. Wednesday 6,000 SWEPCO customers remained without power in the ArkLaTex, that's more than half of the original outage.
A winter storm packing heavy wet snow and gusty winds Christmas afternoon through the night has impacted SWEPCO's service area with widespread damage to company power lines and equipment, with the I-30 corridor from Mt. Pleasant to Texarkana, and the DeQueen/Nashville area especially hard hit.
The peak of the outages for this storm occurred at 7 a.m. Dec. 26, with 16,900 customers impacted across SWEPCO. As of 10 a.m., there were 15,000 customers without power, with the majority of those in Mt. Pleasant (includes Mt. Vernon/Winnsboro/Pittsburg/Naples/Daingerfield), with 8,000 outages. The DeQueen and Nashville area had about 1,400 outages.
Estimated Times of Restoration (ETRs), or 95 percent of those customers who can take power, for these areas are: New Boston: Midnight Wednesday Texarkana: Midnight Wednesday (peak of outages was 2,900 at midnight Tuesday.) DeQueen: Noon Thursday Nashville: Noon Thursday Mt. Pleasant: Midnight Thursday (rural areas)
There are currently 256 full-time employees (32 line crews and 14 tree crews) dedicated to this storm recovery, with the majority of those working in the Mt. Pleasant to Texarkana to DeQueen areas.
Experts say the officer who killed a Long Island college student and a home invasion suspect on Friday was confronted with a split-second choice.More >>
The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer.More >>
Tuesday, May 14 2013 12:47 PM EDT2013-05-14 16:47:12 GMT
HOUSTON (KHOU/CBS) – Neighbors near a prostitution sting said customers came so often they affected the flow of traffic. Two juveniles were among the female sex workers, and more than 100 other peopleMore >>
Vice officers made dozens of arrests in the last two weeks during an operation they called the Bissonet Initiative, named for the street the sting took place.More >>
It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.More >>
It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.More >>
Friday, May 17 2013 11:38 PM EDT2013-05-18 03:38:31 GMT
Hours after SPD Chief Willie Shaw fired police Sgt. Matthew Prunty for violating department policies, the union that represents Shreveport Police has vowed to fight the disciplinary action.More >>
Hours after SPD Chief Willie Shaw fired police Sgt. Matthew Prunty for violating department policies, the union that represents Shreveport Police has vowed to fight the disciplinary action.More >>
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