Holden News

Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden has issued a mandatory curfew for all of East Baton Rouge Parish.

Stanford City Council authorized Fire Chief Ken McDaniel Tuesday to buy a new pumper truck for $276,682. Financing for the fire truck has been approved, McDaniel said, at a 4.4-percent interest rate locked in ...

Testimony is scheduled to resume Monday in the aggravated rape trial of the former pastor of Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula.

A major debate over dollars and cents got pretty heated Thursday night. Livingston Parish residents vented their frustrations to the parish council about their millage rates being rolled forward, and in turn, ...

Livingston Parish Assessor Jeff Taylor is urging taxing districts to roll back their property tax millages after a reassessment showed that taxable value of property in the parish has gone up by one-third. ...

Mayor Kip Holden has retained no-nonsense attorney Mary Olive Pierson to investigate an election year smear letter sent to thousands of people in the parish accusing the mayor and a local woman of infidelity.

To loop or not to loop, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous traffic jams, or to motor about in blessed and unfettered peace upon the autobahn, ...

Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office narcotics agents say they found many different kinds of illegal drugs after searching a mobile home on Hwy 16 Tuesday evening.

A defense expert can view the videotaped interview of the older alleged victim but not the tape of the younger alleged victim in the defense's preparation for the upcoming rape trial of former pastor Louis D. ...

Tammany bureau A long-awaited project to widen a stretch of traffic-congested Louisiana 21 south of Covington will begin this fall and take about a year to complete, St.

Mayor-President Kip Holden formally endorsed U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, a fellow Democrat, crediting her with delivering millions of federal dollars to East Baton Rouge Parish in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The Metro Council is scheduled to take up Mayor Kip Holden's $989 million bond issue Wednesday, along with voting on millage rates and making an appointment to the library board.

Mayor-President Kip Holden formally endorsed U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, a fellow Democrat, crediting her with delivering millions of federal dollars to East Baton Rouge Parish in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Police are used to seeing "Beware of Dog" signs outside homes. But "Beware of Meth Head" is definitely something new.

The Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office says a 16-year-old girl died Saturday evening after she and two other teens wrecked a four-wheeler. Deputies say the accident happened around 7:00 p.m. on Wood Branch ...

A 58-year-old Livingston Parish woman missing since early last month is listed on the New Orleans FBI's Web site as a victim of kidnapping, a critical missing person, authorities said.

On Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Louisiana State Police, Troop L investigated a one vehicle fatal crash on Interstate 12, 1.5 miles east of LA 434 at milepost 75.5. The crash involved a 1996 Chevrolet ...

The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office is looking for a Ford truck that crashed into a garage at a house at Vineyard and Morris Roads on May 24, Chief Deputy Dennis Pevey said in a news release.

A man and a woman were arrested by Livingston Parish police for smoking marijuana in the presence of 10 children.

A Texas mounted recovery team temporarily suspended its search of northeastern Livingston Parish woodlands without finding a Holden woman missing since May 2, team members said Friday.