Jeffrey Ferrell
News Director/ProducerOriginally from the Pacific Northwest, and a graduate of the University of Washington, Jeff began his on-air broadcasting career 35 years ago in the Black Hills of South Dakota as a general assignment reporter.
Jeff has worked in several regions of the country, from the Great Plains to the Midwest… and from the northeast to the southwest, before coming to Shreveport back in 2000 with his wife and four kids, where they have lived ever since.
Throughout his more than three decades of news reporting, Jeff has covered everything from the crack cocaine epidemic of the early ‘90s outside Chicago, to prolonged droughts in Oklahoma and paralyzing blizzards in Pennsylvania… and from devastating gulf coast hurricanes to severe flooding.
Jeff graduated with a master’s degree in history from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in March 2023, and had just entered into a doctoral program until Red River Radio came calling, with a great opportunity to serve as news director at the public radio network.
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Governor Greg Abbott’s declaration directs the Texas Division of Emergency Management to increase 24-hour operations at the Texas State Emergency Operations Center. Tropical Storm Watch now in effect in Texas & Louisiana. -
After bringing the rate of uninsured Arkansas children down to 4% in 2016, the rate has since doubled, blamed largely on a lack of sustained efforts and resources on the state and federal levels. -
Researchers have developed a new innovation against screwworm known as the Novo Fly, a genetically advanced, all-male sterile strain of the New World Screwworm at a newly-opened research lab in Texas. -
But critics fear removing pain and suffering from compensation payments after crashes could prove catastrophic financially for some victims, especially in the most severe cases, living with life-long injuries. -
The nonprofit Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) pointed to the sharp increase in the childrens' uninsured rate and the number of young children not in school as factors with some of Arkansas’ rankings in the five years from 2019-2024. -
House Bill 211 calls for court-supervised programs for those who get picked-up for the misdemeanor offense, which is punishable with fines up to $500 and six months in jail. -
The chamber of commerce staff has spent the week moving acrosss the street to the Mid-South Tower in downtown Shreveport for the year-long, multi-million dollar project, so major replacements, improvements and design changes can get underway. -
This case culminates three years of rising fears and preparations since 2023 when new outbreaks of new world screwworm (NWS) began spreading northward through Central America and Mexico. -
A grace period from any citation, for not having a visible vehicle sticker, begins June 30. It runs through Jan. 1, 2027, when the QR code sticker gradually replaces the inspection sticker during registration renewals. -
Louisiana lawmakers approved House Bill 1, a $47 billion budget that keeps most spending at flat levels. But it did approve pay raises for state employees, judges, firefighters and the La. Department of Corrections. HB1 is now headed to the governor's desk for his signature.
