Pearl River News

According to St. Tammany Parish authorities, Lynch of Tulsa, OK, was shot dead Nov.

From the Slidell Police Deparment: On October 1st, 2009 at around 2:45 pm a 40 year old woman from Pearl River, La reported that her vehicle had been broken into while it was parked in 2200 block of Carey Street.

PEARL RIVER, La. Slidell Police are asking for the public's help in finding a woman they believe used a stolen credit card at a Walgreen's on Front Street in Slidell, according to Slidell Police spokesman Capt.

A deputy who worked in the kitchen at the St. Tammany Parish jail was arrested for allegedly hindering an investigation into a disturbance at her home in which her son stabbed another man, authorities said.

Firefighters responded to a major structure fire near Slidell Saturday afternoon.

A 30-year-old man died in an early Wednesday morning camper fire in Pearl River, authorities said.

Two men who resided in a Slidell residence occupied by a group of Hispanic males have been charged with having sex with two young sisters from the Pearl River area.

State fire marshals are investigating a trailer fire in Pearl River that killed a man.

Officials say a 30-year-old man was killed in an early morning fire in the Pearl River area of St.

Two suspects have been charged with possession of precursor chemicals after an anonymous call led law enforcement officers to their location.

Robin Mullett outpolled Randy Caire Saturday to win a special election for a Slidell-area seat on the St.

Voters in several parts of the metro area will head to the polls on Saturday for a low-key election featuring a city council and school board election, as well as several tax propositions.

Attorneys are expected to begin selecting jurors Wednesday, in the case of a man accused of shooting and killing his wife and five-year-old son in April 2007.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys spent the day screening potential jurors in the murder case against Pearl River's James Magee.

About 2 1/2 years after St. Tammany Parish authorities charged James Magee with fatally shooting his wife and five-year-old son and attempting to kill his two daughters, jury selection began Friday in the Pearl River-area man's capital murder trial.

St. Tammany Parish's 7th Fire Protection District is asking voters to renew a 5-mill property tax for 10 years, warning that without the money the tax brings in it would have to close fire stations.

With a rousing rendition of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl," Keith Hoda and the Country Sound Band opened the Colgate Country Showdown Saturday night in what would turn out to be a night of some really great aspiring country singers, to others who could be good with a little more work, and still others that just need a lot more stage time.

A man who escaped from the St. Tammany Parish jail in June has pleaded guilty to the 2005 killing of a 19-year-old Alabama woman.

Eric Buras, one of the four men who escaped from the St. Tammany Parish jail in June, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of a 19-year-old Alabama woman whose bound and gagged body was found in the Pearl River near Interstate 59.

The left southbound lane of the West Pearl River Bridge on Interstate 59 north of Slidell will be closed next week as crews repair a guard rail.