Local News From Red River Radio with Jeffrey Ferrell
6:04 am, 7:04 am, 8:04 am
Originally 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 House has given preliminary approval to a bill that would remove some library books from public schools for containing sexually explicit language.- Louisiana has made the top 10 list of “Best States for Fishing in 2023”.- If Texas were a country, it would have the ninth largest economy in the world. In short – business is booming in Texas.- A truck hauling mangos in Rapides Parish was pulled over by sheriff's deputies and a K9 discovered it was transporting something else. -
- A McCurtain County official who was identified on an audio recording discussing killing reporters and lynching Black people has resigned.- Republican officials in Louisiana are proposing a ban on teaching about racism at the state's higher education institutions.- The Texas Senate moved forward a bill last night) that would ban Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in the state's public universities.- Severe thunderstorms will likely develop today across Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas, and into Northern Louisiana later this evening into the overnight hours.
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- Oklahoma's Governor and the state NAACP have called for the resignations of McCurtain County Sheriff and other officials upon learning of audio recordings allegedly discussing hiring hitmen to kill a local newspaper reporter and lynch black people.- President Joe Biden will nominate a North Texas Judge to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.- The Texas Senate has passed its proposed spending plan of the $308 billion budget.- Arkansas Governor Sara Huckabee-Sanders says a special legislative session is possible to focus on the state's Medicaid program.
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- Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy has weighed in on the recent court case on the so-called Abortion Pill Ban.- An environmental advocacy group found more than 409,000 tons of air pollution was released in Texas from 2016 to 2022 during unexpected emission events.- Shreveport’s First United Methodist Church voted Sunday on whether or not to leave the Louisiana Conference - United Methodist Church.
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- A new bill to create a Border Protection Unit in Texas is facing pushback as it would allow untrained citizens to patrol the Texas – Mexico border and allow them to make arrests.- The director for the Global Research Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Education told LSUS professors that A.I. will impact everything in education and society for better or worse.
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- A bill has been advanced out of committee that would allow the LA Attorney General to go after porn websites that fail to verify age of users as required by state law.- A major cannabis producer from Canada is interested in growing medical marijuana in Texas and is seeking a license from the state.- Arkansas' Governor Sara Huckabee-Sanders has signed a bill into law that will cut taxes for individual and corporate taxpayers.
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- Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.- The Texas Senate has voted to no longer exclude minors currently undergoing gender-affirming care from a proposed statewide ban.- Caddo Parish Administrator Dr. Woodrow "Woody" Wilson, Jr. has announced that he will be retiring.
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- Severe weather pummeled much of the RRR Listening area last night.- Medicaid recipients will begin to receive letters in the mail to verify whether or not they are still eligible for coverage.- A last-minute bill to lower corporate and personal income taxes in Arkansas was filed with a week left in the legislative session.
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- Louisiana has had budget surpluses for the past six years but is among 10 states near the bottom in bond ratings.- A series of pending bills are aimed at providing Texans around $16 billion in property tax relief.
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- A recent poll among Louisiana voters revealed two candidates are nearly neck-and-neck in the Governor's race.- The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would define fentanyl poisoning as murder for purposes of prosecution and death certificates.- Arkansas lawmakers will consider a bill to ban Hemp products that contain Delta-8, a component of the psychoactive THC found in cannabis.
