Kentwood News

I'm Matt Holzman with The Business Brief , a guide to what's happening in and around the business.

Deputies had to remove a man Tuesday night from a mobile home he had threatened to set afire, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office reported Wednesday.

Two local high schools brought home hardware from the 5th Avenue Theatre High School Musical Theater Awards presented this week.

It looks like it will take a little longer to settle a 44-year-old school desegregation case in one Northshore parish.

Gibbie McMillan believes the same excitement, encountered at a 4 Wheels 4 Him trail ride at Tillou Baptist Church in Northeast Louisiana, can be duplicated in Southeast Louisiana.

After 15 minutes of wretched circus capers, involving a dwarf and a burly man spinning a cube, Spears finally emerges, suspended in a glittery oval ball, performing underneath what looks like a giant lampshade from Homebase.

Today, May 30, 2009 at 12:08 PM this afternoon, Louisiana State Police responded to a one vehicle crash involving a hazardous material .

When a couple gets engaged, the logical next step is to start planning the wedding.

Britney Spears dreams of giving up her life as a pop star to become a school teacher, according to her cousin Alli Sims.

Once the mainstay of the brick and structural clay industry, family-owned businesses are becoming harder and harder to find.

We spotted senior Kim Adams, an Eco-Eagle, during Earth Fair Wednesday at Shoemaker Square on the University of Southern Mississippi campus.

The Tangipahoa Parish School Board will vote on the final version of its multi-million-dollar school desegregation plan at 6 p.m. Monday, school officials said.

Nine people were arrested Wednesday in an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme that cost the federal program thousands of dollars for services not rendered, state Attorney General's Office officials said Thursday.

The state park system is celebrating its 75th birthday this year, but it's park patrons who will be getting the present this week.

They came from Elmer, Farmerville, Minden, Bastrop, Monroe, Shreveport, Alexandria, Pineville, Hammond, Baton Rouge, Gonzales, and Kentwood.

Crime Stoppers of Tangipahoa Parish is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of a driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run incident on Interstate 55 last month, Louisiana State Police reported today.

It's been five years since Britney Spears toured, an eternity in pop years. And for a while, it didn't seem like she'd be back, what with all the out-of-control partying, random head shaving and other acts of public craziness.

On Wednesday, March 25, 2009, at approximately 11:50 PM, Louisiana State Troopers investigated a hit and run fatality crash in Tangipahoa Parish, which resulted in the death of a pedestrian.

A 55-year-old Kentwood man has become the victim of a fatal hit and run accident on I-55 in Tangipahoa Parish.

Plaintiffs' attorneys in a longstanding Tangipahoa Parish school desegregation case do not want to see Kentwood High School closed as part of a new attempt to fully integrate the school district, one of the attorneys said Wednesday.