Ponchatoula News

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.

Monday night, the Ponchatoula City Council appointed a replacement for former Councilman Robert Elzy, who resigned last week after being convicted of forcible rape.

Tangipahoa deputies arrested a man they believe may be responsible for a series of burglaries in the community of Bedico near Ponchatoula.

A Florida contractor jailed in Tangipahoa Parish is accused of bilking residents of Tangipahoa and St.

Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's deputies are looking for a 33-year-old Ponchatoula woman and her 6-week-old child.

Deputies are looking for a woman who went missing with her six-week-old child earlier this month.

Long lines kept two long-time Lottery players from purchasing their tickets at their regular stop and instead sent them to a nearby convenience store.

WDSU debuts on-the-move newscast today Monday, September 14, 2009 Dave Walker WDSU-TV has spent the past few weeks putting a new 4 p.m. newscast on its feet.

A Ponchatoula city councilman convicted last month for persuading another man to rape a woman in his home while he watched will be sentenced today, according to the Associated Press.