Rickey Johnson expects to get a check for $150,000 sometime this month.

Shreveport police now say a woman in west Shreveport, who initially said she was shot by two strangers asking about a dog, actually shot herself in a shoulder. The unidentified victim's husband drove her to the hospital. Police say she will undergo a psychiatric exam.

A Caddo Parish woman is spending her 12th wedding anniversary behind bars after being arrested for trying to have her husband killed, the Caddo sheriff's office says.

Richard Lamar Sepulvado was arrested last year after pulling a gun on a Sabine sheriff's deputy.

A woman sought in a June robbery in Shreveport has surrendered to authorities, leaving one person still being sought, police say.

A single-vehicle truck accident overnight resulted in many Times readers not getting Living sections in their papers today.

Shreveport police are searching for two men who beat and robbed another in the Highland neighborhood late Wednesday.

A state district judge says he plans to announce Sept. 5 whether he will throw out any of the statements made to investigators by five Angola inmates implicated in the slaying of a security officer.

Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested a public elementary schoolteacher suspected of "cyberstalking" a 14-year-old boy.

Five Shreveport Fire Department veterans are in the running for the fire chief's post.