Amite News

Today at 4:40 am, Louisiana State Police Troop L investigated a two vehicle fatality crash on Interstate 55 north of Amite in Tangipahoa Parish.

AMITE, La A Mississippi man was arrested and booked with vehicular homicide and DWI after hitting the rear of a pickup truck, causing the truck to flip and ejecting the passengers and leaving one man dead, according to a State Police spokesman Trooper Nick Manale.

Police are investigating a two-car crash on Interstate 55 that killed one person and injured four others.

The National Weather Service in New Orleans has issued a dense fog advisory Tuesday morning for parts of Louisiana and Mississippi.

According to court records, a private Hammond hospital built three years ago but never opened will be sold at auction in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Orleans on Dec.

A 49-year-old man was fatally wounded Sunday night while standing over a sheriff's deputy and pointing a loaded shotgun at the officer.

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.

MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Police: La. man for creating a Ponzi scheme that cost 200 investors over $11 million AMITE, La.

A state representative with a military background pledged Tuesday to try to shield Louisiana's veterans programs from devastating budget cuts during the next legislative session.

Once again this year, the LSWA's weekly state polls and the LHSAA's power-ranking seeds had their share of differences and similarities.

The fifth in a line of a new class of warship will be commissioned and welcomed into the U.S. Navy on Saturday, Nov.

JOB TITLE: Assistant Director COMPANY: Tangipahoa Parish Library POSTDATE: 11/1/2009 LOCATION: Amite, LA DESCRIPTION: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Tangipahoa Parish Library is seeking a dynamic individual with excellent people skills to work with its director in creating a new vision for library service for Tangipahoa Parish.

AMITE, La. - A Tangipahoa Parish jury has convicted a Hammond man of shooting and killing a man after selling him drugs and then robbing him at gunpoint.

A Tangipahoa Parish jury has convicted a New Orleans man of killing a Hammond man by stabbing him 14 times and hitting him on the head with a hammer 17 times.

A man fleeing law enforcement in Tangipahoa Parish stabbed himself in the chest on the shoulder of Interstate 12 in Lacombe Wednesday night, after leading deputies on a two-parish chase that didn't stop even after most of his tires were blown out by spike strips.

AMITE - When you work in a cafeteria, it's hard to take off weight, even though meals are planned to be nutritious rather than fatty.

In a development that doctors promise will improve medical care and quality of life for young patients with heart defects, Children's Hospital has opened Louisiana's first cardiac intensive-care unit for children.

An Amite man has been arrested after allegedly shooting a woman in the leg Monday.

The first weekend of October sees a slew of festivals on both sides of the lake.

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