Covington News

For the past two school years, students from St. Mary's Dominican High School have taken the two-block walk from their campus on Walmsley Avenue to Lafayette Academy on South Carrollton Avenue, where they've helped the children with homework after school and played with them on the playground.

A Covington man has died in a one-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 190 in St. Tammany Parish.

Assisted by his chef-wife Nealy, Keith Frantz of the restaurant Lola in Covington has captured the title "King of Louisiana Seafood" in an annual competition sponsored by the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board.

There is a buzz that seems to get louder as we approach summertime 2012, and it is causing a stir in the arts.

Christwood Retirement Community invited the public to see pieces by artists from Mandeville, Covington, Hammond and New Orleans artists in the new on-site gallery.

A Covington man was killed in a single-vehicle wreck early Saturday morning on U.S. 190 in western St.

Benson O'Brien III , accused of murdering Bridgette Harveston on May 7, and his dad, Benson O'Brien Jr., who owns the property where the woman was found strangled and beaten, are being sued in St.

Some people use paint or pencil to create their art across a canvas; others use cameras and technology to create their vision across a screen.

Duncan McLindon of Covington wants other parents to know what a gift his daughter gave to others.

A former CEO of a Central Progressive Bank headquartered in St. Tammany Parish was charged by federal prosecutors, according to U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.

The former chief financial officer for a St. Tammany Parish beer distributor has admitted he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to two mothers in Texas for the women to make him sexually explicit videos featuring their juvenile children as well as defrauding his ex-employer of more than $1 million.

The month of May has been proclaimed "Poppy Month" in Covington by Covington Mayor Mike Cooper and the Robert H. Burns, American Legion Family Post 16 of Covington.

Less than two months after he put a pair of kittens into a plastic bag and bludgeoned them to death with a rock, 71-year-old J M Rankin clutched a four-prong cane and limped into a Covington courtroom.

The stepfather of murder victim Eric Frick stood in front of state Judge Bill Burris in a Covington courtroom on Wednesday and said, "I miss my son, and my wife does, too.

St. Tammany residents can add another accomplishment to the parish's growing clean community efforts, as two cities bring home prizes in the Louisiana Garden Club Federation's annual Cleanest City Competition.

Aside from allegedly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to two mothers in Texas for the women to make him sexually explicit videos featuring their juvenile children, the former chief financial officer for a St.

The tradition of watercolor painting is one of the oldest and the most resilient.

It appears that John Curtis will meet Florida defending Class 8A state champion Plant out of Tampa in early September, as part of a doubleheader with St.

Camp EDGE Vacation Bible School will take place at Life Church May 28 through June 1 from 8:30 a.m. until noon.

A small group of senators spent a long, often emotional day Saturday listening to testimony about the impact that proposed state budget cuts would have on services largely aimed at helping disabled and disadvantaged residents of Louisiana, many of them young children.