Livingston News

A man stopped by deputies early Sunday morning for erratic driving died at a Hammond hospital the same day, the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office reported.

Authorities want to know why a man died during a traffic stop on the Northshore.

This year's goal is 30,000 uniforms to assist 16,000 children. It will take $250,000 to provide each of them with two new uniforms.

Wrong by two days. That's what John Adams was when he wrote his wife Abigail to tell her, 'The Second of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America.' And why should Adams, later our second president, think otherwise? Adams was one of five committee members appointed to draft what is now known as the Declaration of ...

Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a man on a marijuana cultivation count after they found 26 marijuana plants growing behind his home northwest of Hammond, the Sheriff's Office said.

When construction first began on Bass Pro in Livingston Parish, officials hoped the store would attract other businesses.

A move by some Livingston Parish Council members to declare a moratorium on accepting new roads, outside of approved subdivisions, into the official parish road system was defeated by a 5-4 vote Thursday.

LIVINGSTON, La. - A prisoner escaped the new Livingston Parish jail through a place in the attic where a wall was supposed to have been built.

Livingston police seized over 200 lbs. of marijuana during a traffic stop on Interstate 12 early Sunday morning.

Some people in Livingston Parish say they are fed up with the way the council is handling their tax dollars.

In the end, the Livingston Parish School Board decided to keep school financing of utility costs as it has been rather than change things around to save the general fund a little money.

A petition has been filed to recall Livingston Parish Councilman Jimmie McCoy, the Louisiana Secretary of State's Office confirmed Thursday.

The limited right to carry concealed handguns into churches will have to wait until at least next year.

Learn how best to ensure neighbors, church members, schoolmates and others are counted in the 2010 census during a meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Old City Hall Welcome Center and Museum, 115 Mattie St., Denham Springs.

A Senate committee Thursday dealt a setback to bill that would ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driving, but its sponsor said he will bring it back next week with the data senators wanted.

Livingston Parish sheriff's narcotics agents raided three methamphetamine labs, arrested five people and were seeking others implicated in investigations of the labs, deputies said Friday.

A cleanup job in Livingston Parish is causing some controversy tonight. Parish President Mike Grimmer told crews from the contractor I-E-D to stop clearing hurricane debris, while he figures out how the bill reached 50-million dollars.

A day long conference on "Preparing Your Business For A Disaster" will be held starting at 8 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

State Police seized more than 20 pounds of marijuana and arrested a Houston man on a drug distribution count during a traffic stop along Interstate 12 in eastern Livingston Parish early Friday, troopers reported.

The Livingston Parish School Board accepted low bids for more than $1.3 million in summertime renovation and improvement projects to schools across the parish, officials said Friday.