Hammond News

Testimony on day two of Dwayne Pinestraw's murder trial aimed showed that the defendant admitted to a family member that he had fired into the apartment and most likely shot and killed an infant.

TV reports there has been a possible explosion in Washington Parish early Tuesday morning.

Nursery and landscape professionals tour the sun garden at the AgCenter Hammond Research Station during a field day in May. The largest Louisiana landscape evaluation of ornamental plants, especially annual flowers and herbaceous perennials, is located at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station on Old Covington Highway just east of Hammond.

Police have arrested a suspected bank robber in Ponchatoula less than 12 hours after he allegedly walked into First Guaranty Bank in Hammond Saturday and passed a note to a teller.

No one but a single bank teller knew that First Guaranty Bank in Hammond had been robbed Saturday morning until after the holdup man casually walked away with an undisclosed amount of money.

"My goal was to line the streets with red, white and blue so that he and his family would know how much we appreciated his strength and bravery."

The explosion and fire happened at the Williams Olefins plant in Geismar, LA at 8:37 a.m. Louisiana State Police said the fire was put out around 11 a.m. There is still no word on what caused the explosion.

A 63-year-old Kentwood woman died Thursday morning from injuries received after she drove her car into a ditch alongside Interstate 55 near the Wardline Road exit in Hammond, according to State Police.

Tangipahoa Parish is poised to become the sixth member of the Regional Planning Commission, a reflection of the growth in the Hammond-Ponchatoula area in the southern part of the parish.

Hammond police say they have identified a vehicle possibly used in a burglary early Tuesday at the state Office of Motor Vehicles branch in Hammond in which the vehicle backed into the building and left with an automated teller machine.

A district judge in Amite says it appears a suspect in a second-degree murder case did not understand what investigators were asking him during a taped interview following his 2012 arrest.

Video footage taken around 2 a.m. showed a small, white vehicle entering the Times Square shopping center, 1320 N. Morrison Blvd., and backing into the building at Suite 114, where the OMV is located, Police Lt.

Wondering what to put in your garden that can stand up to summer's one-two punch of heat and humidity? Check out what the master gardeners will plant on June 18, when they clean out the enabling garden bed in City Park's Walda and Sydney Besthoff Sculpture Garden and install Louisiana Super Plants proven to weather summer's worst.

Bayou Pawn, located at 9522 Main St. in Zachary, is run by a friendly and knowledgeable staff that includes, from left, Jonathan Strickland, Lisa Perkins, managing partner Jeffrey Knight, Sarge Knight, store mascot, Joshua Rogers and William Bradford Kemp.

The funeral for Specialist Chris Drake, who was killed last month in Afghanistan, is scheduled today at Eagle Heights Church off LA 1064 in Tickfaw at 11 a.m. The service is open to the public.

Harvey Updyke Jr. is scheduled to be released Monday from the Lee County jail after serving the remainder of a 6-month sentence for poisoning the Toomer's Oaks.

John Green , 32, and Angela Fuselier, 26, both of 6715 4th St., Marrero, were arrested in the 7300 block of West Bank Expressway in Marrero and booked with possession of stolen property over $1,500.

Several students from St. Bernard were named to the president's list, dean's list and honor roll at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.

More than 200 Louisiana Master Gardeners were recognized for their volunteer efforts on May 10 at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station.

American flags lined the streets outside Hammond Northshore Regional Airport Tuesday morning as hundreds of residents and veterans from around the region gathered to mourn the arrival of a Tickfaw National Guardsman who was killed in combat in Afghanistan.