Covington News

While lightening bolts, intense rain and wind Thursday night caused the four-day Mandeville Seafood Festival to lose a beat and thousands of St.

A Northshore mall won't open on time and construction at the new Nord Du Lac shopping center in Covington has slowed to a snail's pace.

Faced with years of projected budget deficits, Louisiana's lawmakers in the just-ended legislative session created two sweeping commissions to consider how best to restructure government operations and trim spending.

A local man who allegedly thought he was having e-mail conversations with a female juvenile wound up in a Louisiana jail last week after being arrested in an Internet sting.

Chief of Police Freddy Drennan released the following information: June 22, 2009: Ramsey N. Sheppard III, age 40 of 113 Robin Hood Road, Covington, LA Was arrested on an outstanding attachment for failure to appear in Slidell City Court Jimmy C. Fuenmayor, age 27 of 128 Timber Ridge Drive, Slidell, LA Was arrested on an outstanding attachment for ...

A 60-year-old Covington woman pleaded guilty this week to embezzling nearly $600,000 from Gil Copeland, brother of the late Al Copeland, between at least 2003 and 2008.

When a water moccasin sank its fangs into a toddler's foot and put an abrupt end to a July 4, 1991, barbecue near Abita Springs, an entire family feared for the life of the 17-month-old child.

Chief of Police Freddy Drennan released the following information: June 19th, 2009: Farmen R. Gillum, age 28 of 185 Becnel Lane, Slidell, LA Was arrested on an outstanding Probation Violation warrant from Slidell City Court Brandy M. Warner, age 27 of 217 Venus Road, Slidell, LA Was arrested for Theft over $300.00 by Fraud, Monetary Instrument ...

Authorities say an escaped St. Tammany Parish inmate has been recaptured and returned to jail.

Donald Sharpe, deputy chief of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's office, briefs a helicopter pilot with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during the search Friday for the last of four inmates who escaped from the parish jail in Covington Thursday night.

A St. Tammany Parish jail inmate who escaped custody with three other inmates Thursday night was recaptured early Sunday morning in a wooded area north of Covington.

The Louisiana Senate approved a measure Thursday to let home-schooled students participate in public school sports, though several senators won amendments exempting some local school systems from the proposal.

A Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office helicopter lands next to St. Tammany's Sheriff's Office helicopter at the Winn-Dixie on Collins Boulevard in Covington.

Four inmates escaped from a St. Tammany Parish jail overnight. Hundreds of officers saturated the area looking for the escapees.

After sitting through morning jury selection in his trial for cocaine distribution, Terry A. Jones apparently decided he had seen enough.

A new road to help alleviate traffic along U.S. 190 and Harrison Road near Covington opened this morning after a ceremonial ribbon-cutting. St.

Veterinarians across the metro New Orleans area are seeing a boom in flea populations.

Whoever becomes the next Mandeville police chief is one step closer to going without a major employment protection after a bill removing the position from the city's civil service system cleared the House of Representatives on Monday.

A Pearl River man on Thursday pleaded guilty to stabbing a Slidell man after a fight at a local daiquiri shop last year.

Covington has gained a trophy in its efforts to keep drivers from blasting music as they cruise down city streets: the speakers used by one repeat offender.