Madisonville News

More than 40 people applied to be Mandeville's new police chief, according to records obtained today by The Times-Picayune. Mandeville interim Mayor Edward "Bubby" Lyons made selecting a new head for the department, which has been without a chief for almost a year, a major priority in his administration.

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

The St. Tammany Parish School Board on Thursday gave a preliminary authorization to purchase 7.36 acres of land in the Goodbee Square subdivision in Covington for a possible future school.

A young couple on a date is abducted. The young man is shot. The girl is repeatedly raped.

Women wEfof Love Conference: 10 a.m., Faith, Hope and Love Worship Center, 4055 Choctaw Drive, with Prophetess Robbin Hardy as hostess and many guest speakers.

The Tchefuncte River is subsiding Tuesday afternoon after swelling about four feet around Madisonville earlier due to Tropical Storm Ida.

It was a story that nearly ended in tragedy. On Oct. 17, four people - including two children - headed out from Madisonville for a fishing trip on Lake Pontchartrain.

A 72-year-old man who had been missing in Lake Pontchartrain was found alive in the water almost 23 hours after his boat capsized Saturday, sending him and three others overboard.

Designs for aging-friendly homes gain currency among builders --- Many people building homes these days are concerned with the structures' ability to survive wind and water, but there's a growing awareness about preparing for another natural phenomenon over which we have little control: aging of the owners.

With shovels in hand, school officials and relatives of St. Tammany Parish's first recorded school superintendent broke ground Friday on the campus named in his honor.

Bobby Jindal and lawmakers in the process. Kennedy has used his appointment to the Commission on Streamlining Government a ' and his chairmanship of an advisory group to that commission a ' to seize a microphone and blast his ideas across the state.

Bridge City Gumbo Festival Gumbo Festival Park, 1701 Bridge City Ave, Bridge City.

A former state highway engineer, two supervisors from the prime contractor that widened Interstate 10 in Metairie and the owner of a pipe-cleaning outfit were arraigned on federal charges in an alleged scheme to skim almost $295,000 from the project budget.

Voters who live in the area served by the Coquille Sports Complex will consider a $3.3 million bond issue when they go to the polls on Oct.

Breaking ground on the new Henry Mayfield Elementary School near Slidell, school officials, relatives, and former colleagues honored the man who dedicated his life to educating St.

Federal prosecutors have filed charges against 4 men accused of scheming to overbill for work on Interstate 10.

Want to go to a museum for free? You can Saturday all over the country and right here in New Orleans.

When Raymond Kierr and his wife, Josephine, needed to get away from it all, they drove across the lake to their house among the trees.

State highway officials have portrayed Jeff Bentley, the central figure in a suspected kickback scheme, as little more than a construction inspector responsible for approving some of the work to widen Interstate 10 in Metairie.

A Hammond man was found dead in the water at Marina del Ray near Madisonville on Friday morning, authorities said.