Holden News

When Andy Jerome Ticker got married in April, he wore a full-dress captain's uniform strewn with medals, including a Navy Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart.

Louisiana State Police arrested a Houston woman with a $60,000 load of drugs, troopers said Thursday.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Democratic Party Executive Committee has issued its endorsements for the upcoming local, area and federal elections, a news release says.

A Louisiana man is sentenced to a year of home confinement after pleading guilty to illegally wearing military medals at his wedding.

Mayor-President Melvin L. "Kip" Holden hosted a groundbreaking for the Lobdell Improvements project in the Green Light Plan Monday morning, marking the start of construction on the ninth Green Light Plan ...

Narcotics agents arrested a husband and wife team accused of operating an illegal methamphetamine lab, holding the husband in custody Thursday under a $1.05 million bond, Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies ...

Narcotics deputies say they busted an apparent meth lab at a couple's home on Highway 442 in Holden last Friday.

With all the attention the presidential election is getting it's easy to forget about the other races going on a little bit closer to home.

DENHAM SPRINGS Students will return to most Livingston Parish public schools Tuesday at normal times except for six schools for which a decision has not been made.

Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden has issued a mandatory curfew for all of East Baton Rouge Parish.

Stanford City Council authorized Fire Chief Ken McDaniel Tuesday to buy a new pumper truck for $276,682. Financing for the fire truck has been approved, McDaniel said, at a 4.4-percent interest rate locked in ...

Testimony is scheduled to resume Monday in the aggravated rape trial of the former pastor of Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula.

A major debate over dollars and cents got pretty heated Thursday night. Livingston Parish residents vented their frustrations to the parish council about their millage rates being rolled forward, and in turn, ...

Livingston Parish Assessor Jeff Taylor is urging taxing districts to roll back their property tax millages after a reassessment showed that taxable value of property in the parish has gone up by one-third. ...

Mayor Kip Holden has retained no-nonsense attorney Mary Olive Pierson to investigate an election year smear letter sent to thousands of people in the parish accusing the mayor and a local woman of infidelity.

To loop or not to loop, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous traffic jams, or to motor about in blessed and unfettered peace upon the autobahn, ...

Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office narcotics agents say they found many different kinds of illegal drugs after searching a mobile home on Hwy 16 Tuesday evening.

A defense expert can view the videotaped interview of the older alleged victim but not the tape of the younger alleged victim in the defense's preparation for the upcoming rape trial of former pastor Louis D. ...

Tammany bureau A long-awaited project to widen a stretch of traffic-congested Louisiana 21 south of Covington will begin this fall and take about a year to complete, St.

Mayor-President Kip Holden formally endorsed U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, a fellow Democrat, crediting her with delivering millions of federal dollars to East Baton Rouge Parish in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.