Abita Springs News

Chief Choctaw John Dugas, Sr., waves to the crowds along Gen. DeGaulle during the Choctaw parade in Algiers Saturday, February 14, 2009.

The Honeymooners' float rolls past the corner of Napoleon Avenue and St. Charles Avenue on Friday as the 200 members of Oshun presented a 16-float parade titled 'What A Laugh.' Susan Poag/The Times-Picayune People in the crowd reach for beads from riders on float 13 in Cleopatra's parade, which had the theme 'Those Famous Words.' Six Mardi Gras ...

St. Tammany Parish is poised to acquire Southeastern Louisiana Water & Sewer Co.

In honor of the Indianapolis Colts: Feel free to disagree with my tastes or critiques, but you can't call me a beer snob.

A Mandeville resident hopes to give commuters an alternative way to cross Lake Pontchartrain with a proposal to use ferries that could take passengers across the lake in 40 minutes.

Philip A. Foret, 53, 176 W. Airline Drive, Kenner, was booked Jan. 18 with possession of stolen property valued at more than $500. Trung V. Nguyen, 22, 2305 Manson Ave., Metairie, was booked Jan.

It took six minutes for a St. Tammany Parish jury to find a homeless Covington man guilty as charged of second-degree murder Wednesday, for bludgeoning a 64-year-old woman to death in June 2008.

An Abita Springs man was found guilty of raping a 6-year-old girl in 2008. A 12-person St.

Katie Norman, 22, was an advertising major at LSU when she heard about a program that trained top-flight students to teach in troubled public schools.

After almost three hours of deliberation Tuesday night, the St. Tammany Parish School Board voted 9-6 not to participate in the federally funded Race to the Top program.

A Louisiana National Guard helicopter was photographed dropping a bundle of Christmas trees into the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in March to help restore the wetlands.

St. Scholastica Academy has put out a call for donations for the family of Rick and Jeannine Rauch, who lost their Abita Springs home to a fire on Tuesday.

Rick and Jeannine Rauch moved to Range Line Road in Abita Springs two years ago.

An overweight man wielding a screwdriver robbed a Covington drug store early Sunday, police said.

Covington Police arrested a man who tried to rob a drug store early Sunday while wielding a screwdriver, authorities said.

ST. TAMMANY, La. -- After some tense moments Monday morning, St. Tammany leaders said Tuesday afternoon, the rains that hit southeast Louisiana did not cause any major problems on the Northshore.

As of 3:00 PM, the following is the latest on road conditions in St. Tammany Parish: Slidell AIRPORT A- HUNTWYCK VILLAGE SUBD.

A car plows through standing water Tuesday, December 8, 2009, on Gause Boulevard in Slidell after a heavy morning thunderstorm.

An arsonist from the Pearl River area must reimburse the national lumber corporation Weyerhaeuser about $39,000 in connection with two 2006 woods fires in central St.

St. Tammany Parish Councilman Al Hamauei will host a town hall meeting Wednesday in Lacombe to discuss several topics of interest to constituents in the 7th District.