Lacombe News

Mary, Queen of Peace will hold a "Parish Sing" on Monday at 7 p.m. in the church.

If you want to vote in the March 24 elections but are not registered, you have until Feb.

CAFE DEGAS 3127 Esplanade Ave., 945-5635; www.cafedegas.com This casual cafe serves refined French cuisine.

The only post office serving east Slidell, inside a Whitney Bank branch on East Gause Boulevard, will close its doors Tuesday after the bank's new owner decided not to renew the contract to run the postal station.

A limited amount of work is proceeding at the site of a planned waste transfer station in Lacombe while a lawsuit to halt the project altogether remains on appeal to the Louisiana Supreme Court.

A Girl Scout troop on the north shore has collapsed after parents withdrew their children in the wake of a decision by a Colorado troop to admit a 7-year-old transgendered child.

A suspected Mandeville bank robber who allegedly dodged police gunfire and led officers on an eight-mile chase before crashing last week is in jail after being released from the hospital, according to authorities.

What if you were faced with a grim decision -- risk your life by having surgery, or shorten your life by not having surgery? That is a decision that heart patients and their families have had to make.

When John Simmons Jr., chief public defender of the 22nd Judicial District Court, started in 1981, he and four attorneys worked from a drafty trailer behind the parish jail in Covington.

The work that an artist produces comes from experience. For Colleen Marquis, art comes from the experience growing up in the Lacombe area in a city called St.

Concerned Citizens of Lacombe will hold a general membership meeting Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at John Davis Community Center on North 12th Street in Lacombe.

Voters will get their first chance to see the candidates for elected office in Mandeville in a group setting during an Alliance for Good Government forum Tuesday night.