 01/12/10 Services for Ret. Msgt William Stanley Anders, USAF, will be held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, January 13, 2010, at the chapel of Hixson Brothers, Pineville with Reverend Bart Walker officiating. Burial will be at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, under the direction of Hixson Brothers, Pineville. Military graveside services will be provided by personnel from Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City. Mr. Anders ...
 01/11/10 Baseball coach Paul Mainieri is disappointed Jones won't be with the baseball team
 01/10/10 The special lives, challenges and circumstances of "brats," the self-proclaimed name of children who grow up in military families, will be explored in special free showings of the documentary "BRATS: Our Journey Home" in local screenings next week.
 01/08/10 A Chesapeake Operating employee has been named as the person killed in a natural gas explosion on the southeast side of Barksdale Air Force Base Wednesday night.
 01/08/10 The arctic front has arrived in North Texas bringing wind chills in the teens.
 01/07/10 It occurred in the southern part of Bossier Parish near Barksdale Air Force Base's fence but miles from the base's inhabited cantonment, runway and weapons storage area.
 01/07/10 An explosion rocked Barksdale Air Force Base Wednesday afternoon, killing a civilian and causing a fire near the base fence. Base officials say the explosion in an underground natural gas pipeline occurred at approximately 5:20 p.m. in the East Reservation area of the base property.
 01/05/10 A massive wave of hiring is about to sweep North Carolina as part of the 2010 census. The federal government plans to hire 24,000 temporary census takers, 2,500 of whom will be based at the Fayetteville field office earning $13.50 an hour.
 12/22/09 Currently Operational On A Number Of Fighter Aircraft The successful completion of phase 2 of the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod B-52 integration program at Barksdale Air Force Base, LA, was announced by Lockheed Martin Monday.
 11/14/09 Middle East expert at Barksdale Air Force Base offers local agencies peek inside Middle Eastern culture, thought.
 11/14/09 The owner's goal was to make the house like it was when it was built in Moss Point, Miss., in 1900, before it was shipped in 1914 to New Orleans.
 11/12/09 Calvary Baptist Academy students light candles in honor of the 13 killed in the shootings last week at Fort Hood, Texas, and write notes to the victims' families.
 11/11/09 Connie Barnes, a West Monroe High School teacher and mother of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Matthew Ryan Barnes, stood quietly and full of emotion in a special Veterans Day Memorial Ceremony to honor her son and seven other young men who were killed in action in wars in Vietnam and Iraq.
 11/07/09 SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Second Lt. Matthew Swartz recently received the Combat Systems Officer certificate for Advanced Electronic Warfare from Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
 11/06/09 A shooting at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas that left 11 people dead and 31 wounded Thursday has caused Barksdale Air Force Base to be put on alert.
 11/05/09 Barksdale Air Force Base has heightened security after a mass shooting Fort Hood in Texas.
 11/05/09 Military bases across Louisiana are under tight watch after the shootings in Fort Hood, Texas.
11/05/09 Four veterans from World War II to Operation Desert Storm shared their experiences before a packed hall of the American Legion Walter E. Coulter, Jr. Post 1941 in La Grange.
 11/01/09 Veterans Day will be a special occasion for Benton's Dale Whipple, who will spend it in the nation's capital, honoring fallen comrades in Arlington National Cemetery. Across the area, dozens of events will mark the day and days leading up to it and beyond.
10/28/09 Dynamic Fuels, the $150 million alternative fuel project under construction in Geismar, will get a special $30 million tax break in a deal approved by a state board Tuesday. |