— About 3 dozen fire units battled a downtown blaze that destroyed a late 1800's building in Shreveport's Red River Entertainment District Thursday afternoon. — A new report shows Texas leads the country with major weather-related power outages. — A youth advocate is highly critical of the Office of Juvenile Justice's plan to send non-violent juvenile offenders with short-term sentences to Louisiana’s Angola prison.
Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' broadcast and media experience to Red River Radio. He began his career as a radio news reporter and transitioned to television journalism and newsmagazine production. Chuck studied mass communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.