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It is with great sadness the Bossier Parish School Board shares news that District 8 Representative Kenneth Wiggins, its longest serving board member, has passed away at the age of 87.  

Mr. Wiggins was first appointed to the board in 1995, then went on to serve the District 8 constituency for more than three decades as an elected board member. 

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Attorney General Liz Murrill announced today that the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (LBI) uncovered a Medicaid and SNAP fraud scheme involving more than $156,000 in fraudulently obtained government benefits, resulting in the arrest of one suspect and the arrest of a former Louisiana Department of Health employee who had previously been considered a fugi...


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Wanda Coy Goodman
April 10, 1960 — June 2, 2026
Service: Saturday, June 6, 2026, 1pm at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, Shreveport.

Dr. Dwight Vernon Hart
September 11, 1947 – June 2, 2026
Service: Saturday, June 6, 2026, 6:30pm at Aulds Funeral Home, Shreveport. 

Chloristeen Armstrong-Mayfi...


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Bossier Schools has announced that Kimberly Gray of W.T. Lewis Elementary School has been selected for the 2027 cohort of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) Teacher Leader Fellows Program.

Gray is one of 14 educators from across the country chosen to participate in the program, wh...


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A project to improve a section of LA 530 in north Caddo Parish continues to make significant progress.

DOTD announces that the final layer of new asphalt paving has been applied to LA 530 from LA 538 to I-49, marking a milestone for the $4.7 million project near the town of Oil City.

The contractor will now being working on paving the existing driveway tie...


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