Lacombe News

A St. Tammany Parish grand jury Thursday indicted a Lacombe man and a Baton Rouge woman on charges of vehicular homicide in separate incidents.

Three stretches of Interstate 12 in St. Tammany Parish are targeted for road improvement projects that will begin today and continue through July 20.

Chief of Police Freddy Drennan released the following information: July 3rd, 2009: Steven l. Olivieri, age 18 of 1662 Gause Blvd, Deluxe Motel, Slidell, LA Was arrested for Simple Burglary and Possession of Marijuana Christian Lee, age 17 of 304 Cawthorn Drive, Slidell, LA Was arrested for Possession of Marijuana Sarah N. Schwartz, age 17 of 807 ...

While lightening bolts, intense rain and wind Thursday night caused the four-day Mandeville Seafood Festival to lose a beat and thousands of St.

Three stretches of Interstate 12 in St. Tammany Parish are targeted for road improvement projects that will begin Monday and continue through July 20.

The St. Tammany Parish Republican Parish Executive Committee is seeking an appointee to fill a recent vacancy for the 11th District near Slidell.

The 2009 Lacombe Crab Fest takes place Saturday and Sunday at John Davis Park on 12th Street.

Henry Butler pounds out the blues at Snug, John Boutte and The Original 007 rock d.b.a., the N.O. Indie Rock Collective feature three bands at One Eyed Jacks and Jenny Lewis sheds her Rilo Kiley persona for a solo show at the House of Blues.

The Slidell City Council banned video bingo in a unanimous vote after a public hearing on Tuesday night.

Chief of Police Freddy Drennan released the following information: June 22, 2009: Ramsey N. Sheppard III, age 40 of 113 Robin Hood Road, Covington, LA Was arrested on an outstanding attachment for failure to appear in Slidell City Court Jimmy C. Fuenmayor, age 27 of 128 Timber Ridge Drive, Slidell, LA Was arrested on an outstanding attachment for ...

Looking for the best air-conditioning to beat the heat this week? Well, aren't we all? In the clubs Bob French plays Irvin's Playhouse, Henry Butler pounds out the blues at Snug, John Boutte and The Original 007 rock d.b.a., the N.O. Indie Rock Collective feature three bands at One Eyed Jacks and Jenny Lewis sheds her Rilo Kiley persona for a solo ...

More than two dozen Hurricane Katrina and Rita rebuilding projects delayed for months across coastal Louisiana can move forward now that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has revised rules that had prohibited federal investment in risky areas.

Sediment from a dredge in Lake Pontchartrain is pumped into dyked marsh. A federal/state wetlands restoration project to restore more than two square miles of marsh in the Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge by dredging sediment from Lake Pontchartrain near Bayou Lacombe and piping it into the Goose Point/Point Platte marsh area was begin in ...

The first coastal restoration plan for St. Tammany Parish is officially in the works.

Concerned that a much-touted consolidated college and public school campus near Lacombe may be in financial limbo, Superintendent Gayle Sloan said Wednesday that St.

Members of UUA Area Church at First Parish in Sherborn, Mass., helped Ms. Ifama Arsan with the renovation of her home in New Orleans in 2008.

St. Tammany Parish residents opened their mailboxes this week to find an anonymous, and likely expensive, flier touting the charitable attributes of electronic video bingo and encouraging them to urge their Parish Council members to support an ordinance to regulate video bingo.

A cross-dressing man has been convicted of killing someone during a dispute over $20 that escalated when he pulled a jack handle from his purse.

A 39-year-old Lacombe man was charged this week with first-offense driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest and driving under suspension for his involvement in the 2008 accident that left a 43-year-old Lacombe man dead.

A Lacombe man this week admitted to becoming delusional in 2004 after not taking his medication and, believing his wife was having an affair, drove to that man's place of work in Slidell with the goal of killing him.