The Shreveport Little Theatre will present "Advancing the Actor: The Workshop, an Acting Course for Adults." from 5:30 to 8 p.m. today, Tuesday and July 30 at the Bossier Historical Center, 2206 Beckett St., Bossier City. The workshop is a three-day course for adult actors to increase performance energy, enhance onstage skills in a fun, creative atmosphere and learn new professional techniques for theater and film. Exercises in improvisation, voice, movement, theater and film audition technique, monologue and scene work will be covered. The workshop is open to beginning and advanced actors. The cost is $125, which includes all materials. A student discount is available. Ellen Lindsay received her B.A. in theater from Tulane University and her master's of fine arts in acting from LSU. She has studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Los Angeles, the Stella Adler Conservatory — New York University, T. Schreiber Studio, and Manhattan School of Music in New York. For more information and to register, call Lindsay at (318) 226-3622 or visit the workshop Web site at advancingtheactor.com.

CAMARILLO, Calif. - A national survey shows gas prices have dropped a fraction below the $4-dollar mark.

Southern Hills Business Association will have a meet the candidates event from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at its conference center, 9701 Baird Road in Shreveport.

MANY, La. (AP) _ Retired Sabine investigator Ted DeLacerda hopes the facial reconstruction will be the key to providing the final piece in the puzzle of identifying a man whose remains were pulled from a parish well in 1986.

A Shreveport police officer suffered minor scrapes and bruises after running into a ditch early Sunday.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ Officials say new findings on how education and health traits are largely determined by the age of 5 are so striking that the state plans to host a symposium on the issue this year. State Representative Hollis Downs and eight other state and local policy-makers attended a two-day conference on the issue at Harvard University in June. State officials are now in early talks on how the new findings can help Louisiana combat daunting education, health and other problems. The meeting was hosted by the Center on the Developing Child, which does research on how an infant and toddler's early years shape their quality of life. Downs said the study could pave the way for new laws and other changes designed to detect learning problems much earlier.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ Here are the winning numbers selected Sunday in the Louisiana Lottery: Pick 3 4-4-9 (four, four, nine) Pick 4 4-2-5-5 (four, two, five, five)

BATON ROUGE — Like other elected and many appointed officials, judges in Louisiana will have to open their financial books to the public next year but unlike other officials, the requirements are self-imposed.

The Bossier City Police Department will need $100,000 to upgrade an outdated electrical system that has started frying police computers, city officials say.

Planning against cyber threats has taken an International flavor at Barksdale Air Force Base last week, with high-level visitors from major allies conferring with local leaders.