“We had a really good run,” Flett said of Humpfrees. “A lot of bands from Baton Rouge and New Orleans played there. Dallas and Austin bands played there. Delbert (McClinton) played there. Stevie (Ray Vaughn) played there. The Fabulous Thunderbirds played there.

“It said, ‘Congratulations! You’ve been named a finalist for Opus Prize, which is one million dollars,’” said McCarter. “I was then expecting to read something like, ‘Just send us $10,000, and the million dollars is waiting on you.’ I thought somebody out of Lagos, Nigeria, is sitting in a café typing this thing out.

Finally, there is a very optimistic forecast for the Shreveport-Bossier City MSA. The COVID-19 shutdown laid a heavy blow on this MSA, causing a loss of 22,600 jobs (-12.6%) overnight. By June 2022, the MSA had recovered 82% of those jobs (much better than the statewide recovery of only 68%).

This is the story of two sisters and their husbands who did just that. Sanela Tomic and Anela Majstorovic are sisters. Bosnian by birth, they were enjoying a good life in the former Yugoslavia. In 1992, their story took a dramatic turn, as did the story of their homeland.

Senior Day offers free parking and admission to the Senior’s Expo with exhibitor booths, entertainment, free health screenings, flu and pneumonia shots (with Medicare card), COVID-19 vaccine shots, contest game shows, educational presentations and door prize drawings for eligible attendees who visit 80% of the exhibitor booths.

“Everybody is real excited about meeting over there,” Jones said. “It’s a new building. It’s something fresh in town. Seeing folks that used to meet at the brewery – everybody is looking forward to that. There’s an excitement. There’s a buzz around town about it coming back up.

reservations for Cypress by the Revenir went live on Sept. 28, well before the anticipated Nov. 3 opening date, over 600 reservations were taken in two hours.

His family’s suffering. “I was probably 11 or 12, and I remember her having to go through the surgeries. I remember she got breast cancer, went through everything, then it came back. I just remember watching her and my dad and my brother. It was just a very tough time for our family.

Go to any of the leading candidates’ websites for Shreveport mayor, and you’ll learn their priorities, or those issues they say their administration will be focused on, if they are elected into office. Crime reduction. Education. Economic development. Community reinvestment.

We all want healthy bodies, and perhaps even more, we want healthy brains. Unfortunately, there is no pill that a doctor can prescribe to keep our brains at peak performance. Still, there is real hope if we focus on where some of the most exciting Alzheimer’s disease successes in research have been achieved: prevention!.

While the pandemic was challenging to most students’ education, one small positive was that rates of bullying appeared to have gone down. Now that students are back in the classroom, bullying is expected to return to prepandemic levels.

The bivalent vaccines are a combination of the original vaccine strain and the Omicron BA.4/5 variant, the dominant circulating form of SARS- CoV-2. Two mRNA vaccines are available now as bivalent booster doses: the Pfizer bivalent vaccine is for individuals age 12 years and older; the Moderna bivalent vaccine is recommended for 18 years and older.

It can happen to any baby in any family. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the unexplained death of a baby younger than 1 year of age, takes a devastating toll on parents and families. They often are left with despair, anger, deep sadness and unanswered questions.

THROUGH EVERY WEEKEND IN OCTOBER: NIGHTMARES AT NECROMANOR HAUNTED HOUSE:.

Craig Ferguson was the special guest for the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.