Tangipahoa News

A 49-year-old man was fatally wounded Sunday night while standing over a sheriff's deputy and pointing a loaded shotgun at the officer.

Bill Chaucer walked out of jail free on bond at 2:30 p.m. Friday. Chaucer chose not to give answers to any questions asked of him.

According to court records, a private Hammond hospital built three years ago but never opened will be sold at auction in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Orleans on Dec.

A Ponchatoula man has been arrested for running a Ponzi scheme in which he bilked at least 200 investors of more than $11 million and allegedly used the money to pay for Mardi Gras krewe memberships and plastic surgery, among other personal expenses.

The National Weather Service in New Orleans has issued a dense fog advisory for parts of Louisiana and Mississippi for Monday morning which will remain in effect until 8 a.m. According to forecasters, fog began developing late Sunday evening and dense is fog likely before daybreak.

Although he has arrested more than 400 people in connection with child-sex crimes in Louisiana, veteran investigator Toby Aguillard is still flabbergasted by the behaviors he finds in these criminals.

HAMMOND, La. -- A judge has ordered the Tangipahoa Parish School Board to increase its hiring of black educators for administrative positions.

A Hammond man arrested Friday is accused of possessing 51 pounds of marijuana and 200 grams of crack cocaine, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office reported.

TANGIPAHOA, La. The Tangipahoa Parish Council is asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to appoint an interim justice of the peace for the Hammond area.

Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that year to date; the TPSO Inmate Litter Labor Crews have picked up approximately 68.06 tons of trash from our parish roadways and state highways.

The president of the Tangipahoa NAACP is calling for the parish school superintendent to resign.

A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his ouster from civil rights groups and several public officials, including the governor.

You may have read by now about how Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, refused to issue a marriage license to a couple for one reason: they are an interracial couple.

A federal lawsuit has been filed against a Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry an interracial couple, WAFB's David Spunt reports.

Two Opelousas women say their successful biracial children are proof that the concerns of a Tangipahoa official who refused to marry an interracial couple are unfounded.

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA - An Amite man apparently stabbed himself while trying to run away from sheriff's deputies on Interstate 12 through two parishes Thursday.

A man fleeing law enforcement in Tangipahoa Parish stabbed himself in the chest on the shoulder of Interstate 12 in Lacombe Wednesday night, after leading deputies on a two-parish chase that didn't stop even after most of his tires were blown out by spike strips.

A Louisiana couple filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against a justice of the peace who refused to perform their marriage ceremony because they are of different races.

A Tangipahoa justice of the peace is at the heart of an international controversy after refusing to marry an interracial couple.

Mike Dunford was a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studied evolution.