Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Louisiana will hold a local fundraiser Sept. 6 at Church of God-South Park, 2419 Meriwether Road. The event, a garage sale, will start at 9 a.m.

Longtime community volunteer and District 5 Caddo School Board member Lola May has endorsed Ramon Lafitte, former Chreveport City Attorney, for Caddo District Judge. The election is Oct. 4.

District 6 Caddo Commissioner Herschel Brown was killed Saturday in a rollover wreck in Shreveport.

Celebrity or not, no one parks in the fire lane.

When a house in the 1400 block of Harvard Street recently burned, killing an elderly man, it took firefighters almost 13 hours to find the victim's body buried in the charred debris.

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal's veto of 60 percent of local projects state lawmakers placed in the budget raised their hackles, but his latest order requiring more before they can get their legislatively funded money is causing even more of a split between the two branches of government.

Membership in the East 80 Oil and Gas Coalition has grown to more than 500 members and 23 coordinators in less than a month, according to a news release.

There were rumors of big celebrity cyclists coming from all parts of the United States and hundreds of motorcyclists were certainly in evidence in Bossier City as Harley-Davidson celebrated its 105th Anniversary with the Ride Home.

Actor John Goodman may have put it best Saturday night when he said the James Burton & Friends concert was "so hot it could make the swamp boil."

Shreveport Community Church will have a grand opening and ribbon cutting for Kid City, the SCC Coffee Bar and other renovations at 10:30 a.m. today at the church, 5720 Buncombe Road.