Pearl River News

One man is dead, and a second seriously injured, after a train hit them early this morning.

There's going to be a lot of activity in our town Feb. 5, with the Pearl River Lions Club Carnival parade taking to the streets at noon under the theme "Outlaws of the Old West." Presiding over the parade as Grand Marshal is Nate Fleming, Pearl River Lions Club 2011 Citizen of the Year.

In a three-year shopping spree through St. Tammany and Washington parishes, a 30-year-old Pearl River woman wrote at least 87 forged or worthless checks -- some stolen from her grandmother, others from her sister -- valued at more than $7,500. But it was the last forged check, $200 from a Pearl River church, that will likely send her to prison for ... (more)

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.

Doug Mouton / Northshore Bureau Chief ANGIE, LA -- A suspect is now in custody for the murder of Tilly McCain.

The children of a woman jailed for allegedly abandoning her newborn boy outside of her home near Pearl River are "in state custody and in a safe environment," an official said Friday.

The St. Tammany Parish woman who is charged with abandoning her hours-old newborn baby in her backyard has now lost custody of her three other children.

PEARL RIVER, La. -- Roughly 55,000 new fish are swimming in the Pearl River system, after a massive restocking effort Thursday.

A baby found abandoned in the Pearl River after her mother gave birth in a bathtub is no longer in critical condition but remains hospitalized.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a woman who gave birth to a newborn child and left it in her backyard Tuesday morning, according to the St.

St. Tammany Parish firefighters battled a blaze late Saturday that consumed a Pearl River-area residence, according to officials.