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Posted 42 minutes 16 seconds ago
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Leslie Spoon hit the water this morning with anglers from FLW Tour. 

Tonight on KTBS 3 Sports, you'll hear from them.

Posted 43 minutes 20 seconds ago
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 A Bossier City discount store was robbed Monday night by a machete-wielding man, police said. One person has been arrested.

  Colby Seth Friedman, 28, of Shreveport, faces armed robbery charges in connection the the holdup of the Family Dollar Store in the 2200 block of East Texas Street just before 8 p.m. on Monday.

  Police said Friedman walked up to a check-out stand and ordered the cashier to give him $20. No one was injured and the man left with the $20, police said.

  Police began investigating and got information about three hours after the holdup that a suspect was just down the street at a motel. Friedman was arrested at the Siesta Motel.

Tagged As: Friedman, robbery, machete, Bossier, store

Posted 52 minutes 47 seconds ago by SHERRI TALLEY stalley@ktbs.com
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A black wreath hangs on the front door of the Shreveport Green offices, where Yvonne Lee worked as an executive.

Meanwhile, next door, at Osborne Funeral Home, there is a memorial service for Lee that began at 11 a.m.

Lee was murdered last week as she drove a teen worker home.  Police have made an arrest.

Posted 1 hour 39 minutes 37 seconds ago by Associated Press
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Federal investigators are sorting through the latest two church fires in east Texas to see if they were set intentionally.

The fires were reported within an hour of each other Monday night at churches about three miles apart in a rural area northwest of Tyler, about 85 miles southeast of Dallas.

No injuries were reported at Dover Baptist Church or Clear Spring Missionary Baptist Church.

U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesman Tom Crowley said Tuesday it's too early in the latest investigation to reach any sort of conclusions.

The fires Monday night follow seven arsons at houses of worship in the region this year. A January blaze in central Texas also was ruled an arson.

Posted 1 hour 53 minutes 39 seconds ago by Associated Press
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An abstinence-only study that allowed students to explore the drawbacks of having sex at early as age 12 has attracted praise from some Texas educators.

Texas law requires an emphasis on abstinence when it comes to sex education in public schools.

Details of the new study are in this month's issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

David Wiley, president of the American School Health Association, is a Texas State University professor who did a 2009 study that was critical of most sex education programs in Texas.

Wiley says the new research in the Philadelphia area offered eight hour-long sessions, safe-sex classes, classes using both approaches, and classes in general health behavior.

Wiley says it proves "when you do it the right way, using medically accurate information, you get better results."

Tagged As: abstinence, education, Texas, schools

Posted 2 hours 2 minutes 5 seconds ago
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The Caddo Sheriff's Office is currently investigating a shooting that occurred in the 6500 block of Green Briar Lane near Blanchard.

Patrol deputies were contacted early this morning by personnel at Willis-Knighton Bossier, who said a victim was at the hospital with a gunshot wound. The victim, Rodney Whiteside, was later transferred to LSU Hospital.

Whiteside was shot once in the right thigh and pistol whipped. His injuries are not life threatening.

A preliminary investigation revealed that Whiteside and the shooter were acquaintances and were involved in an argument early this morning, which led to the shooting.

Sheriff's detectives picked up a suspect in the case and are currently conducting interviews.

Tagged As: shooting, Green Briar Lane, Caddo, Blanchard

Posted 3 hours 2 minutes 41 seconds ago
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    An executive for Shreveport Green who was murdered last week will be remembered today at a memorial service.

  The memorial service for Yvonne Lee is set for 11 a.m. at Osborn Funeral Home chapel in Shreveport.

 Lee was shot as she drove a teen worker home. Police have made an arrest.

Posted 3 hours 7 minutes 20 seconds ago
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    Residents in parts of the Mid-Atlantic are bracing for a second wallop from old man winter.  Up to 20 inches of snow are forecast for Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. beginning Tuesday.  Samantha Hayes has the latest.

Posted 3 hours 9 minutes 55 seconds ago
Posted In: Homepage, News - Local, News - First News, Sports - Saints - Red Beans and Rice

    The Saints are back in the Big Easy!  Fans have welcomed home the world champs and they're ready to celebrate their sweet Super Bowl success with a parade!  KTBS'3 Ed Walsh is in the Crescent City gearing up for the big event.
    And stick with KTBS 3 for complete coverage.  We'll air the parade on our 24 Hour News Channel and right here on ktbs.com.  Ed Walsh will also have live reports of the parade on KTBS 3 News at 5:00 and 6:00.

Posted 6 hours 34 minutes 17 seconds ago by The Associated Press
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       BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A New Orleans area legislator wants to applaud the Super Bowl-winning New Orleans Saints with a Louisiana license plate.  Sen. A.G. Crowe, a Republican from Slidell, says he's proposing the creation of a specialty license plate to honor the Saints and their "Who Dat Nation" followers.  The bill will be considered in the legislative session that begins March 29.  Crowe says the plate would bear the fleur-de-lis, the state seal and the phrase "Who Dat Nation."  He says he'll talk to NFL officials to avoid problems with copyright laws.  Specialty license tags cost $50 to $60 more than regular plates, with additional money going to administrative costs and to a specific charity or cause.  Crowe says he hasn't yet picked the "worthy cause" that would get the Saints plate money.