Ponchatoula News

A driver on Interstate 55 saw wreckage at the tree line and called Louisiana State Police, who found the body of a Metairie man.

Two years ago, Amith Nagarajan and his wife, Bridget, were planning to move their family from Nashville to New Orleans to be nearer to her native Ponchatoula.

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Authorities are seeking two men, who are considered armed and dangerous, in a shooting in Natalbany, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office reported Friday in a news release.

One of the little wonders of early spring has to be the beautiful new produce. I spend my winters caught up in local crops of gourds, squashes and citrus only to come out of a cold winter with new culinary experiences waiting on me.

A Metairie woman accused using a box cutter to slash the forehead of a 15-year-old girl has been arrested and booked with attempted second-degree murder, an arrest report said.

The number of oil leases in Tangipahoa Parish during the first four months of 2012 has nearly matched the 564 in the parish for all of 2011, said Tangipahoa Parish Clerk of Court Julian Dufreche.

As a 16-year-old in Ponchatoula, La., he fell hard, and now almost 30 years later, for Hudgins, a Madison alderman, the passion is still there - for the Pontiac Trans Am.

A state judge sentenced a Ponchatoula man convicted of attempted aggravated rape and simple burglary to serve 62 years in prison, court officials said Thursday.