Amite News

The fifth in a line of a new class of warship will be commissioned and welcomed into the U.S. Navy on Saturday, Nov.

JOB TITLE: Assistant Director COMPANY: Tangipahoa Parish Library POSTDATE: 11/1/2009 LOCATION: Amite, LA DESCRIPTION: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Tangipahoa Parish Library is seeking a dynamic individual with excellent people skills to work with its director in creating a new vision for library service for Tangipahoa Parish.

AMITE, La. - A Tangipahoa Parish jury has convicted a Hammond man of shooting and killing a man after selling him drugs and then robbing him at gunpoint.

A Tangipahoa Parish jury has convicted a New Orleans man of killing a Hammond man by stabbing him 14 times and hitting him on the head with a hammer 17 times.

A man fleeing law enforcement in Tangipahoa Parish stabbed himself in the chest on the shoulder of Interstate 12 in Lacombe Wednesday night, after leading deputies on a two-parish chase that didn't stop even after most of his tires were blown out by spike strips.

AMITE - When you work in a cafeteria, it's hard to take off weight, even though meals are planned to be nutritious rather than fatty.

In a development that doctors promise will improve medical care and quality of life for young patients with heart defects, Children's Hospital has opened Louisiana's first cardiac intensive-care unit for children.

An Amite man has been arrested after allegedly shooting a woman in the leg Monday.

The first weekend of October sees a slew of festivals on both sides of the lake.

Tangipahoa sheriff's deputies are investigating a single-vehicle crash that left a Tickfaw man dead, according to spokeswoman Dawn Panepinto.

Deputies arrested a former Ponchatoula city councilman accused of raping a minor girl Tuesday - the same day he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for an unrelated rape, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office reported Wednesday.

Attorneys for both sides were in New Orleans federal court to offer closing arguments over the School Board's proposed desegregation plan in the 46-year-old case.

AMITE, La. - State police say a crash on Interstate 55 in Tangipahoa Parish killed one person and injured four.

More than 50 years ago, five children were abandoned on the side of a Louisiana road.

Deputies are looking for an armed robbery suspect whom the Sheriff's Office recently identified.

Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota is preparing to activate a new B-52 bomber squadron.

AMITE - A Tangipahoa Parish jury has found a Fluker man guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting of a 16-year-old girl at point-blank range during an argument about money.

Authorities arrested a third suspect Thursday in Slidell in the home-invasion burglary that left a Tangipahoa Parish woman dead and her husband in the hospital, deputies said.

St. Helena Parish deputies have arrested a 20-year-old man accused of killing a 28-year-old woman during a fight at a birthday party last month.

A former Independence fire chief pleaded no contest Monday to felony theft for his mishandling of $32,000 in department funds during his tenure.