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US Attorney Alec Van Hook talks about the DOJ's plan to help a number of high crime cities - Shreveport included - lower the increasing level of violence.

US Attorney Alec Van Hook talks about the DOJ's plan to help a number of high crime cities - Shreveport included - lower the increasing level of violence.

US Attorney Alec Van Hook talks about the DOJ's plan to help a number of high crime cities - Shreveport included - lower the increasing level of violence.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- A former Shreveport businessman who defrauded investors and financial institutions in a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court. Hell be sentenced Jan. 4 to

More than thirty years after discovering Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) as the first maternally inherited disease associated with homoplasmic mtDNA mutations, we still struggle to achieve effective therapies. LHON is characterized by selective degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and is the most frequent mitochondrial disease, which leads to blindness young people, in particular males. Despite the causative mutations are present in all tissues, yet only a specific cell typ...

Former megachurch pastor and presidential adviser Kirbyjon Caldwell enters prison

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, people with intellectual or developmental disabilities are seven times more likely to be sexually assaulted or raped — and the likelihood is 12 times greater for females. Melissa Van Hook chairs the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council. During a Zoom call with educators, she talked about the challenges facing these families. "What was discovered was that individuals and families are not receiving the information they needed to...

Owings used the benefits to pay for personal expenses and fund his coin collecting hobby.

Getty Images Last Tuesday, Jason Cabot prepped for an abdominal surgery: he fasted for 24 hours and drank three tablespoons of intestine-cleansing milk of magnesia. But until he showed up at 5:30 a.m. the next day at Scripps Mercy Health in San Diego, he had no idea if the surgery was going to happen. Scripps Health, a large health system in California, on May 1 experienced a "disruption" to its IT systems, which has since been tied to malware discovered on the health systems computer network....

SHREVEPORT, La. -- A Shreveport trauma surgeon will spend 21 months in prison and pay more than $200,000 in restitution following his sentencing Wednesday in U.S. District Court, acting U.S.