Jeff Ferrell
News Director/ProducerOriginally from the Pacific Northwest, and a graduate of the University of Washington, Jeff began his on-air broadcasting career 33 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, 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 Texas Education Agency has compiled an initial list of about 400 books, poems, and other texts after surveying teachers and cross referencing the texts with state standards. The state could introduce the required reading for every grade as early as 2027. -
“It’s a bittersweet day in Louisiana. While we are certainly sad to lose Dr. Abraham in Louisiana, we are thrilled to see the CDC gain a selfless leader.” - Gov. Jeff Landry (R-La.) -
Researchers found that physical violence has dropped slightly for men, while women continue to face higher risks of sexual and intimate partner violence in Louisiana. -
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders discussed Arkansas’ recently-filed federal application for $1 Billion of the $50 billion in the Rural Health Transformation Fund. It’s all part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which could help offset some of the deep cuts to Medicaid. -
Washington remains at a standstill whether to continue or end federal subsidies that help make marketplace health plans affordable. Without subsidies, the uninsured rate in Texas could jump from 16.6% to 20%. -
Part II primarily focuses on many of the responses from local, state and corporate leaders to the documented surge in vehicle crashes surrounding construction efforts underway for Meta's $27 billion data center in North Louisiana. -
But Assistant Arkansas Attorney General Justin Hughes says the right of permitless carry does not extend to entering any state or city-owned building, even at those parks, even during a sporting event. -
A new study reveals Texans under the age of 18 confronted more barriers to an abortion than any other age group in the nine months after the six-week abortion ban went into effect in 2021. -
25-year-old Vivian Police Officer Marc Brock shot through the door while attempting to serve a warrant for cyberstalking, and later died at the hospital. The suspect after a two-hour standoff with police. -
The expanded cancer care facility is expected to expand outreach, especially to patients in rural areas of southern arkansas and northern Louisiana who cannot otherwise easily access urban areas for regular, life-saving treatments.
