Tickfaw News

Fellow architects of AIA Baton Rouge awarded the Members Choice Award to Pistorius Associates of Hammond for design of the Northshore Eye Clinic on Hammond's Yokum Road .

A truck slammed into the Thibodaux Fire Department's Bowie station Monday morning, shattering the station's toilets, damaging walls and briefly flooding the building following a three-car wreck in front of the station.

Fire crews from three parishes are battling a massive blaze along the Tickfaw River in Livingston Parish.

A Tangipahoa Parish justice of the peace is taking a lot of heat, after refusing to marry an interracial couple.

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.

The state Department of Education selected two Tangipahoa Parish middle schools for a pilot program to help adolescent readers, a staff academic officer told School Board members Tuesday night.

A Tickfaw man was killed Thursday night when his pickup truck crashed into a utility pole on Old U.S. 51 in Amite, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office reported.

Tangipahoa sheriff's deputies are investigating a single-vehicle crash that left a Tickfaw man dead, according to spokeswoman Dawn Panepinto.

Sheriff Daniel Edwards announces that the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office arrested sixteen in narcotics sting on September 1, 2009.

It was in Tickfaw not Mayberry, but the drug sting pulled off by Tangipahoa Parish deputies this week was certainly reminecent of the wily schemes that Sheriff Andy and Deputy Barney might have pulled off if they had gotten wind of a drug-dealing house in Mayberry -- and called in outside help.

He's a man said to have two very different personalities: a gruff, bossy side - the other, a softer caring guy.

A 16-year-old has drowned in the Tickfaw River. Livingston Parish authorities say it happened Tuesday afternoon near Holden.

State highway officials say a two half-mile sections in the left lane of Interstate 55 southbound between Hammond and Independence have been closed after the road buckled under continued "excessive heat." Dustin Annison, a spokesman with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, said Monday the sections are about 2.5 miles apart ...

A Tangipahoa Parish man has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for his part in a botched attempt to cook methamphetamine that blew up a Tickfaw trailer and killed one person more than two years ago, federal court records show.

Sex in woman's car consensual, jury told Saturday, June 06, 2009 West Bank bureau Despite testimony of a jailhouse confession and the presence of a date rape narcotic in the alleged victim's system, a Jefferson Parish jury acquitted a Tangipahoa Parish man Thursday of raping a woman in Harahan more than six years ago.

Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a man they believe is connected to a series of vehicle burglaries in the Independence and Tickfaw areas over the past two weeks, the Sheriff's Office said today in a release.

State Wildlife and Fisheries agents identified on Tuesday the two women injured when they and two others were ejected from a 16-foot skiff traveling in a curve on Blood River in southeastern Livingston Parish.

Today, May 4, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Louisiana State Police Troop L investigated a two-vehicle crash that resulted in the death of a Greensburg resident.

He was described as absolutely the most handsome man ever from Livingston Parish.

Spend a day in a Louisiana state park or historic site tomorrow. Go fishing or hiking or learn how the state's settlers made their own soap.