Ponchatoula News

NEW ORLEANS A 26-year-old Tickfaw man accused of running a Ponzi scheme that took nearly $20 million from 160 investors pled not guilty to 64 counts in court Monday.

The name E. Cameron Coffin may not ring a bell for many local residents, but Jennings Police Department officials will soon be making sure he gains a place in the city's long history - all thanks to one Southeast Louisiana man.

A Louisiana businessman was arrested Thursday on charges he engaged in a Ponzi scheme that cost at least 200 investors more than $11 million, money he allegedly used to finance a lavish lifestyle.

Bird Fair and Sale EVENT: Bird Fair and Sale. DATE: Today. TIME: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. PLACE: Chesterton Square, 143 Northwest Railroad Ave., Ponchatoula.

A Hammond businessman accused of bilking more than 200 investors out of $11 million posted bail to gain his release from custody Friday, according to court and jail records.

A Louisiana businessman was charged Friday with engaging in a Ponzi scheme to defraud about 160 investors - mostly elderly people - out of roughly $19.5 million and using some of the money to pay for cars, cruises, sports tickets and a house.

A Ponchatoula man was arrested for running a Ponzi scheme that lured in at least 200 investors and cost them over $11 million, which was allegedly to use to fuel an extravagant lifestyle for him and his wife, according to a statement from the state Attorney General's Office.

St. John the Baptist Parish authorities arrested a Texas man for allegedly threatening another with a handgun after the two were involved in a minor vehicle accident early Monday evening, a department spokesman said.

Ponchatoula is more than 300 miles from Shreveport-Bossier City but when an elected justice of the peace declines to marry an interracial couple because of his personal prejudices, that smears the entire state.

At least four times in the last 21 2 years, Keith Bardwell says he refused to marry interracial couples while serving as a Louisiana justice of the peace.

Approximately fifty-five breeders and vendors from Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and Arkansas will be on hand at the Pontchatoula Bird Fair to answer your questions and to educate you about birds.

A 26-year-old man has pleaded no contest to striking and killing a woman pedestrian and injuring her two young children in October 2008.

Sports fans and concert goers beware -- you might be in for a surprise when walking through the turnstiles of the Superdome or New Orleans Arena.

From Arizona to Cleveland and all the way to Russia, a story from South Louisiana is continuing to grab the world's attention.

Hammond - Yesterday at 6:54 pm, Louisiana State Police Troop L investigated a two vehicle fatal crash on LA 3158 at the intersection with Old Covington Highway in Tangipahoa Parish.

Tangipahoa Parish's litter problem is creating high levels of pollution in Ponchatoula Creek and Yellow Water River, two main water drainage routes for central and south Tangipahoa Parish.

A man wanted on a federal drug warrant has been arrested in Ponchatoula. Narcotics agents with the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office had been told that John Dail was going to a home in Ponchatoula to buy illegal drugs.

'We already had two scheduled to be baptized and now we will baptize 13,' said Karen Lemoine, Vacation Bible School director at Bayou des Glaises in Moreauville, which is part of the Louisiana Baptist Association.

A 23-year-old Ponchatoula police officer has been arrested on charges that he attacked another officer.

A Ponchatoula man who has been arrested and charged with more than 30 crimes in the last year has been arrested again.