Jeff Ferrell
News Director/Producer - (318) 349-1722 (mobile); jeffrey.ferrell@lsus.eduOriginally from the Pacific Northwest, and a graduate of the University of Washington, Jeff began his on-air broadcasting career 36 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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The report from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor found 337 kits of the 1,879 collected statewide, or 18%, from July 2024 through December 2025 had not been sent to a crime lab as of February 2026. -
Landowners filed suit just as regulators are poised to give expedited approval to a power project linked to the $50 billion Meta Hyperion data center campus in Richland Parish. -
In 2022, the GOP split Pulaski County with its 64% of Democratic-leaning voters into three separate congressional districts.The Associated Press called the race for incumbent Republican French Hill late last week over Chris Jones, with 50.9% of the vote. [@ 1:50 of recording] -
Analysts say the Republican majority in Texas State Senate will become the last remaining power the party has to help influence political developments and their agenda. -
More than 1.46 million votes were cast in Louisiana's U.S. Senate race during Tuesday's election, according to preliminary results from the Louisiana Secretary of State's Office. Final post-election turnout statistics can take up to two weeks. -
The blue wave of election results was not felt equally across the region. While Texas experienced a seismic shift in the political landscape, states including Arkansas and Louisiana did not see the same effects. -
The polls opened at 6:00 a.m. in Louisiana, and at 7:00 a.m. in Texas and will remain open in Texas until 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. in Louisiana. Arkansas polls opened at 7:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. -
Political strategists say texting has grown in popularity as a relatively cheap way to contact voters — costing as little as 1 cent per message — though opinions vary on their efficacy as a campaign tool. -
Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico crisscross Texas encouraging supporters to vote with just days left ahead of the midterm elections. -
UPDATED: A federal court in San Antonio has dismissed a lawsuit by three civil rights organizations against the Texas Secretary of State. The court said the NAACP and its Texas chapter, as well as the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens, or Texas LULAC, lacked the standing to sue for the records under the National Voter Registration Act.
