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 Election Protection Hotline: 866-OUR VOTE (866-687-8683) offers voters help if they have been turned away at the polls.
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Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine, dies at the age of 83.
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Texas election judges have the authority to require deactivation of devices and to require anyone who doesn’t comply to leave the polling place.
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According to Louisiana law, violating a burn ban may result in a civil fine of $250.
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Arkansas' working poor, designated as ALICE, now stands at 31%, with another 16% below the poverty level. Together, 47% fall below the ALICE threshold for survival.
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Early voting begins Friday in Louisiana. In Texas and Arkansas, it gets underway on Monday, October 21.
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More than 100 people in Shreveport received $660 every month for a year. Then the program ended early last year.
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Texas has argued it faces unnecessary costs under the program associated with educating and providing health care to DACA recipients.
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The changes will affect students in grades 3-8 statewide in assessments of English language arts (ELA) and math skills.
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The Louisiana soldiers are among the 5,100 Guardsmen from many other states who mobilized ahead of Hurricane Milton making landfall along Florida's gulf coastline.