DeSoto Parish Sheriff Office Sgt. Kevin Coleman didn’t expect an emergency call to come on his personal cell phone right before halftime of a high school football game. But it did. #TheGoodStuff
This week on #TheGoodStuff, KSLA News 12's Doug Warner shows how important it is to take care of good friends, especially when that friend is Matthew Martin from Haughton High School.
Members of the Green Oaks Giants football team decided to take a giant leap of faith before Wednesday's practice. They were baptized. Their decision comes as the team continues to come to grips with the shooting death of teammate Minnion Jackson.
On this week's #TheGoodStuff with KSLA News 12's Doug Warner: In the wake of Hurricane Laura, many stepped up to help others in need, including some driven by a personal passion close to their hearts.
This week on #TheGoodStuff with KSLA News 12's Doug Warner, a Bossier Parish teacher stitches together the perfect solution for students who are hearing impaired.
The ACS is hopeful this year’s White Out Cancer Gala will reach more people than usual during its first livestream fundraiser, co-hosted by KSLA's Doug Warner
On this week's #TheGoodStuff, KSLA News 12's Doug Warner once again joins forces with Real Men Wear Pink' to raise money in the fight against breast cancer.
On this week's The Good Stuff, KSLA News 12's Doug Warner shares how young Taylor's quick thinking helped save the lives of her mother and her soon-to-be-born sister.
A conversation is define as a 'talk between two people'. And as Doug Warner discovers in this week's The Good Stuff, a Shreveport police officer shows us how a hug can be an incredible conversation starter.
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Doug Warner shows us how a Shreveport teen is claiming victory against depression — all the way to the graduation stage.
This week on The Good Stuff with Doug Warner, the special message Airline head baseball coach delivered to his team shortly finding out the season was cancelled.
From the very first case of Coronavirus in Louisiana one month ago, as the number of patients began to rise, so did the number of people rising to the occasion to help others, along with comeback stories, giving us hope during this pandemic.
Students and teachers on both the Caddo Parish and Bossier Parish sides of the Red River, are eternally grateful for recent help after facing their own unique adversities.
Ask any police officer. There is no such thing as a routine traffic stop. “I’ve made thousands of traffic stops,” begins Corporal Christian Hicks, who just celebrated 17 years with the Shreveport police department earlier this month.
At least twice a week, after school Cpl. Rodney Bradley spends an hour or so with roughly two dozen Claiborne students, members of his 'Young Distinguished Gentlemen' organization.
Throughout the entire month of October, the contributions of workers with disabilities are honored with National Disability Employment Awareness Month. KSLA News 12's Doug Warner has this week's 'The Good Stuff'.
A Shreveport church is excited over their new-found attention after last fall's EMMY winning The Good Stuff broadcast on KSLA, highlighting the unique story behind its recent move into a larger church.
KSLA News 12 is nominated for 12 Emmy awards by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - Mid American region. Seven of those nominations are in association with Doug’s ‘The Good Stuff’ reports.
On this week's The Good Stuff, KSLA News 12's Doug Warner returns from Beaumont, Texas with a Texas-sized thank you from a family who received much needed help from many across the ArkLaTex after Hurricane Harvey.
On this week's #TheGoodStuff, KSLA News 12's Doug Warner takes us to a Bossier City neighborhood where three young lives continue to be honored through home ownership.
On this week's #TheGoodStuff with KSLA News 12's Doug Warner: a returning sophomore finds a way onto the football field even after doctor's told him he'd never play the game.
On this week's #TheGoodStuff with Doug Warner, last week’s EF-2 tornado northeast of Benton, Louisiana destroyed many homes. But it didn’t destroy the spirit of three youngsters who live along Butler Hill Road, 4-year-old triplets, Ruel, Finley and Ava.
14-year-old Jamie Willis is an incoming freshman at Benton High School. Just days ago, she found out she made the girls' soccer team. It's just the latest athletic accomplishment for this young teen who has had a pacemaker implanted in her body since she was 5-years-old.
With his high school and college degrees proudly on display inside his family's home, 26-year-old Tevin Persley is anxious to land his first significant job since graduating from Wiley College in 2017.
Shelli, a former local television news anchor and now in public relations at Horseshoe and Harrahs casinos, returns to the stage Friday night inside the Horseshoe Riverdome as a special guest performer.
It takes a lot to pull off the annual Dancing for the Cure, benefiting Susan G. Komen Foundation of Northwest Louisiana.Celebrity dancers, hundreds of supporters to buy tickets to the April 26, 2019 event, and, of course, the dancers.
It's back for a fifth consecutive year, with a whole new line-up of celebrity dancers. 'Dancing for the Cure' is slated for the night of April 26, inside the Horseshoe Riverdome.
And even now, a year and a half after 26-year-old Trey Auld’s tragic death, his family and friends gather often to continue the giving legacy Trey began long before becoming a first responder.
Just months after a triple bypass, Puffer kayaked from the northern tip of the Mississippi River in Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico. He did so to bring awareness for the need for clean drinking water in many rural areas of Honduras
Vona Weiss posted a twenty paragraph letter on her fundraising page, hoping others will truly understand the fight that still lies ahead for her son, 30 year old Ethan Weiss, a Shreveport native now living in California.
Brently had a dream. A bunch of dreams, really.“I asked him when was he going to put the walker down and walk,” begins Brently Miller’s father, Scott.“He said I’ll walk when I’m 7. And the day he turned 7, he put the walker down,” Scott fondly remembers.
Warrior Horse is a equine therapy program Kevin Russell first began developing five years ago. And later this week, it officially launches with a fundraiser kickoff inside the Horseshoe Riverdome.
November 22, 2018 at 10:30 in the morning.About the only traffic on the road at that point, mostly locals hustling across town for work or to meet family for a Thanksgiving Day meal.
At first glance, it looks like father of two Darryl Ware is just playing with one of his kids’ army men. “My initial reaction, to be honest Doug, ‘What in the world’,” wife Krystal says with a smile.
Our jobs at KSLA News 12 are not as difficult or life-altering as doctors, police officers, or fire fighters who traditionally work most holidays. But many of us here do have one thing in common with many of them. We all worked Thanksgiving Day.
Bossier Parish 17-year-old Gavin Roe had a busy 2018. He competed for a national championship with the Bucs fishing team, and helped lead the Bucs football team into the playoffs. But more impressive, is the team he formed in late October to help him mother in her fight against cancer.
It is both an eye sore and a sore spot with many who call Shreveport home."Basically, when the last team left here, they just put the gates on here and walked away," says local realtor Shayne Sharkey.
Common Ground has been serving meals and providing groceries, clothing and youth and adult ministries for the past 30 years. The program started by Grace Community United Methodist Church of Shreveport now is supported by various churches and organizations from throughout the city.
For many teenagers in uniform on a Friday night, whether they’re cheering on the fans or fighting for yards on the football team, it’s about creating the kind of memories that last a lifetime.
