Lacombe News

The St. Tammany Parish School Board needed just four minutes Saturday morning to nominate and confirm the widow of Sorola "Jody" Palmer to fill her husband's seat on an interim basis.

Oysters and crab play a big role on the menu, but in many ways the food and atmosphere are as much Italian as New Orleans.

A Lacombe couple pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to theft of government funds and concealing knowledge of a felony for receiving over $180,000 in disaster relief funds after misrepresenting damage done to their home after Hurricane Katrina.

About 40 residents of St. Tammany Parish attended a meeting Wednesday night to determine the feasibility of widening U.S. 190 between Mandeville and Slidell.

Serious flooding remained at bay in St. Tammany Parish Tuesday afternoon, with officials waiting to see whether a new band of showers and thunderstorms making its way across Lake Pontchartrain from the south shore would give them cause for concern.

Officials working on a study to determine interest in widening U.S. 190 between U.S. 11 in Slidell and Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville will host a meeting Wednesday night to gather public input on the project's feasibility.

As of 3:00 PM, the following is the latest on road conditions in St. Tammany Parish: Slidell AIRPORT A- HUNTWYCK VILLAGE SUBD.

A car plows through standing water Tuesday, December 8, 2009, on Gause Boulevard in Slidell after a heavy morning thunderstorm.

Cameron Lee sits on the porch of his house in Lacombe as firefighters remove the hose they used to extinguish a kitchen fire.

Officials working on a study to determine interest in widening U.S. 190 between U.S. 11 in Slidell and Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville have scheduled another meeting to gather public input on the project's feasibility.

St. Tammany Parish Councilman Al Hamauei will host a town hall meeting Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Lacombe to discuss several topics of interest to 7th District constituents.

The head of the Metropolitan Crime Commission suggested the fallout from the indictment of former Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price is not over and investigations continue into others in St.

On the Mandeville lakefront Monday morning, the water was steely gray and several feet above normal.

An unrestrained Port Allen man was killed last night in a single-vehicle crash on LA 986 east of LA 415 in West Baton Rouge Parish.

A public meeting to discuss the state's interest in widening U.S. 190 between U.S. 11 in Slidell and Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville attracted only a few residents this week, as word about the meeting and, apparently, the proposed project failed to spread beyond the few agencies involved.

My in-laws were having Christmas dinner at our house for the first time, and I wanted everything to be perfect.

Gigantic metal poles are sprouting along interstate highways in St. Tammany Parish, part of the final phase of a project aimed at providing more information about traffic on the busy thoroughfares.

Earlier today, a crash involving two vehicles killed a man from Marksville, LA. Troopers responded to the crash around 8:45 am, which occurred on LA Hwy 1 near Fifth Ward.

New Orleans chef John Besh's love of the Crescent City shines through every page of the fabulous "My New Orleans The Cookbook: 200 of My Favorite Recipes & Stories From My Hometown" . Besh, who grew up in Slidell, has garnered numerous national awards for his cooking prowess.

Deputies arrested an Amite man Wednesday accused of trying to kill a deputy while leading authorities on a high-speed chase from his residence in Amite to Lacombe, deputies reported Thursday.