Folsom News

Grade 2 winner My Pal Charlie has been retired and will stand the 2010 breeding season for a $3,000 fee at Elite Thoroughbreds in Folsom, Louisiana.

Taffy Davenport, who finished second in the 1998 Delaware Oaks, brought the top price of $6,000 during the Breeders Sales Company of Louisiana's mixed sale Oct.

Since then, her air conditioning has failed several times, her hot water tank split, her water faucets have developed strange pockmarks, her mirrors and silverware have turned black, and she constantly feels fatigued.

The 8-year-old son of Forestry will stand for $2,500 in 2010. A second-crop sire, Teton Forest is represented by 2009 stakes performers Deltalicious and Smokey Lonesome.

Pass It Down became the first winner for his sire, Ford Every Stream , when he won the Oct.

Ten-time stakes winner Costa Rising will stand his first season in 2010 at Clear Creek Stud in Folsom, Louisiana.

Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a man following a car crash early Thursday morning.

A Folsom-area man who killed a 35-year-old man with a hammer a few weeks before Hurricane Katrina was sentenced Monday to life in prison for second-degree murder, the Times-Picayune reports.

Two drivers died in a head-on crash on Louisiana 25 in St. Tammany Parish on Sunday night, authorities said Monday.

A special teenager decided she wanted to go to college and have a normal life. And even though she was born without arms and legs, she says once you get to know her, you will see she is not missing anything at all.

Jays Wildcat improved upon a third-place finish in his career debut with an 8 3/4-length romp in the fifth race on Friday at Evangeline Downs to become the first career winner for multiple stakes winner Wildcat Shoes.

The St. Tammany Parish school system sent home a letter about how it is dealing with the H1N1 virus after three schools reported a large number of absences earlier in the week.

St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies say they have arrested a 17-year-old Folsom teen in connection with the rape of a 16-year-old Mandeville girl.

St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies say they have arrested a 17-year-old Folsom teen in connection with the rape of a 16-year-old Mandeville girl.

St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies say they have arrested a 17-year-old Folsom teen in connection with the rape of a 16-year-old Mandeville girl.

A Folsom teenager has been arrested for rape of a juvenile girl in the parking lot of a Covington movie theater, according to St.

A 17-year-old Folsom male admitted to raping a 16-year-old girl in the parking lot of Hollywood Cinemas near Covington, authorities said Tuesday.

Crystal Hughes, left, registers to vote with her son Ellis Hughes, 3, at a Zeta Sigma Project Vote event last summer at St.

While the tone remained fairly civil at a public hearing this week to learn whether the 1st Fire Protection District's board would vote to increase property taxes next year, one man couldn't contain the grudge he had been carrying for the past year.

A Folsom-area man accused of bludgeoning to death a 35-year-old man with a hammer a few weeks before Hurricane Katrina came out of a trailer where the two had been watching TV, hammer in hand, and admitted the two had fought, a witness testified Wednesday.