SHREVEPORT, La. -- City Councilman John Nickelson aims to keep guns out of the hands of thieves by placing a mandate on gun owners.

BOSSIER CITY, La. -- Ray Adams had a couple of older brothers in World War II. One was in the Army and the other in the Navy. Ray wanted to go…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- The Army turned Leroy Palmer away twice because he barely weighed 100 pounds. So he started laying brick in Tennessee.

HAUGHTON, La -- Tom Kijak had worked under the hood of his ol' '49 Plymouth he bought with his paper route money growing up outside Philadelph…

ATLANTA, TX -- Gordon Pynes only planned to stay in the Army a couple of years after college ROTC. But the Berlin Crisis, followed by the Cuba…

BETHANY, La. -- Sometimes you need to give it a second chance. That's what John Walker did. He left college. Then he left the Army after a bri…

BOSSIER CITY, La -- Jim Merryman has given more than four decades of his life to serving our country. One of those years in the Air Force was …

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Not long after high school in Summerfield, Louisiana, and not long after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Claude Gulley made hi…

BOSSIER CITY, La. -- On this Valentines Day, meet Jim and Susan Ellstrom. They met their match in the Air Force.

HAUGHTON, La. -- Bill Whitten says he loved his time in the Marines. He loved being at war in Vietnam. But when he came home, he knew he had t…

HAYNESVILLE, La. -- As we celebrate African American History month starting in February, we meet a World War II veteran from Haynesville. A.D.…

BOSSIER CITY, La -- Jessie Hilton says he wanted to find a way out of that cotton patch where he grew up near Bastrop, Louisiana. He found it …

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Thirty years ago at this time, the U.S. had launched the air war against Iraq in Operation Desert Storm.

DOYLINE, La. -- Some of you may know him by his stage name of Danny Alan, a gospel singer and songwriter, and poet. Before achieving that fame…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Medford Carter was rocked with a surprise while he was assigned to Barksdale Air Force Base. Across the way in Shreveport, …

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Bruce Allen did not know J.C. Williams was a fellow veteran when they first met. But that bond helped form a meaningful fri…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Frostbite. That'll hurt. Could even cost you a hand or a foot.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Prayer. A good luck charm. Whatever it took, Charles Sherrer used it to come home from the Korean War, and one of the most …

SHREVEPORT, La. -- As a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Screamin' Eagles in 1967, Steve Best thought he knew what he was in for at the hei…

COUSHATTA, La. -- The gift of patriotic themed quilts brought tears to the eyes of a former Marine.

BENTON, La. -- Charles Evans had a job to do in World War II: help build a base for some specialized aircraft on an island in the south Pacific.

BOSSIER CITY, La. -- As we prepare to celebrate Veterans Day, we'd like you to know about five brothers who all served in World War II. "The F…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Bill Wilson was tired of the family farm in Marion County, Texas. Same with the surveying crew he'd worked with as a teenag…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Running the mess hall operation sounded like safe duty during the Korean War. Until Horace Mann found out where that kitchen was.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Jim Graves of Shreveport was on glide path to retirement from the U. S. Air Force Reserves.  As a colonel, he was on his la…

ELM GROVE, La. -- Dale Hubbard was part of a band of brothers who joined the Marines. His older brother went in before him. Two younger brothe…

QUEEN CITY, Texas -- Growing up during World War II made John Fox dream of becoming a pilot. It would become a tough journey, with no college …

HALLSVILLE, Tx -- When Sid Stafford signed up for the Army, he figured he'd just serve for a year. Then the attack on Pearl Harbor happened. A…

ATLANTA, Texas -- Bobby Smith was training for anti-aircraft artillery. Then the Korean War ended in 1953. And the Army found a new job for him.

ATLANTA, Texas -- It happened fast for Alleck Bohuslav. He went from farm boy in south Texas, to the Phillipines as a crew chief in the Army C…

TEXARKANA, Texas -- Ben Nash will soon celebrate a big birthday, turning 101. We went to visit so he could tell us about when he was not yet 2…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Bobby Edwards remembers when his family had to use the back door of restaurants, and had to step aside on sidewalks.

BOSSIER CITY, La. -- People who join the military will tell you that the military becomes family. Frank and Holly Junge took that to heart.

DODSON, La. -- Born on the 4th of July, World War II veteran Wayne Skains just celebrated his 95th birthday. But he has memories of when he wa…

COUSHATTA, La. -- Jim Brown Jr. roamed the high seas amid tensions in the Middle East during some of his long Navy career.

BOSSIER CITY, La. -- After about a three-month break due to the coronavirus, our Hometown Patriot series is back. And so is Pleasant Burns. He…

MARSHALL, Texas -- If given the choice of whether to go back into a war zone, what would you say? For Ted Beauchamp, it was a quick yes during…

KEATCHIE, La. - It was a busy 13 months for Jerry Wilcoxen in the Vietnam War. The Marine fought in 22 campaigns, including what he calls "the…

IDA, La. -- Officially, Rich Arnold and his Army unit were not in the Vietnam War. But indeed they were -- in a secret operation against the enemy.

Don Wooten pulled a hat trick in the Vietnam War. He flew three different aircraft. But he remembers that one time in one of those planes when…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Tommy Williams was a youngster growing up in Highland, playing some basketball outside, when a sight and a sound gave him a…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- He fixed it all, from aircraft to chow hall equipment. And for some of his Air Force career, Elbert Minniefield was our mil…

BOSSIER CITY, La. -- Gordon Blackman flew a hundred mid-air refueling missions in the Vietnam War. But one of them turned into a surprise resc…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Jim Holden admits he was headed down the wrong path as a teenager in Hoboken, New Jersey. He would take a turn that landed …

SHREVEPORT, La -- As we open African American History Month, let's meet Versa Clark. He joined the Air Force right out of the now closed Georg…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- We're celebrating another happy 100th birthday for a veteran in our area. Odis Bullard of Shreveport served during World War II.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- It helped having a stepdad who was a World War I veteran. Bob Potter was prodded from a two-room schoolhouse out in Wyoming…

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Glen Kinsey turned wrenches in his dad's auto body shop growing up. So the Air Force put him to work doing heavy maintenanc…