Gunfire shatters the peace of a Saturday afternoon in the Martin Luther King Jr. neighborhood, killing 47-year-old Lonzell Armstrong and leaving police puzzling over the city's latest homicide.

In what may be a first for a major city, Shreveport starts putting burials in its public cemeteries online.

A new law, part of Gov. Bobby Jindal's health care legislation package, allows mental health exams for an involuntary commitment via interactive television.

One of the world's leading technology development companies soon will come on board the fledgling Cyber Innovation Center as a platinum sponsor in a public ceremony Wednesday in Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker's conference room.

Children and adults lined up early to get a summertime treat at Shreveport's free ice cream party Friday, then settled in as dark fell to watch a family-friendly movie.

The Bossier and Caddo registrar of voters offices wrap five days worth of voter drives that add about 90 people to the local rolls. Today also is election day in some areas; see whether you have some decisions to make.

States should be able to determine their own fuel efficiency standards, Sen. John McCain said Friday. The domestic auto makers strongly oppose the policy, which a dozen states are pushing, as a job-killing proposal that would seriously harm the industry.

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama will be trailed by an army of American journalists when he visits Europe and the Middle East next week, a media tail on a political comet in an important moment of the 2008 campaign.

A 29-year-old Pelican man convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old was sentenced this week to three years of home incarceration, with specific directions from the judge that he could only leave to go to church and work, according to a news release Friday from Assistant District Attorney Richard Z. Johnson Jr.