Tickfaw News

A fugitive from Mississippi was arrested Tuesday morning on a slew of charges after he allegedly broke into a Hammond home Monday night.

State police say a tire blowout resulted in a fatal traffic accident on Interstate 12 near Hammond.

A 41-year-old Tickfaw woman was killed early Tuesday in a single vehicle crash on Interstate 12 that apparently was caused by a tire blow-out. Leshell Hally was headed westbound on the Interstate when the crash occured at about 7am.

Nine schools in Tangipahoa Parish will remain closed Tuesday due to low water pressure, the Tangipahoa Parish School System announced in a statement.

A roundup of many other headlines from 2009 ran the gamut from Baton Rouge-area investors' getting caught up in what prosecutors alleged are ponzi schemes to stories about merger battles and hospital expansions: STANFORD GROUP: In February, federal regulators seized assets and closed offices of the Stanford Group Co.

Eric Franklin seemed like your run-of-the-mill cab driver, portly and chatty with a warm, if somewhat overly friendly, manner.

A Kentucky oilman featured on an MTV show about lavish teenage birthday parties has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of money laundering and securities fraud.

Yes, that is right two years in a row. Snow in Louisiana.A Does this indicate that global warming is responsible for a winter season and snow or is this just a precurser of the shift in the earth's magnetic pole as some have predicted to happen before the year 2012?

A Tickfaw man who was arrested last month for allegedly operating a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme has pleaded innocent.

A man already serving time on rape and child porn charges is now also accused of molesting a juvenile.

A Louisiana businessman charged with defrauding investors out of nearly $20 million in an alleged Ponzi scheme has been ordered detained in federal custody.

A Louisiana businessman charged with defrauding investors out of nearly $20 million in an alleged Ponzi scheme has been ordered detained in federal custody.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said a federal grand jury indicted a man on 64 charges for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme of fraudulent investments from the past several years.

Federal authorities have arrested 26-year-old Matthew Pizzolato of Tickfaw and charged him with operating a $20 million dollar Ponzi scheme.

A significant cultural divide separates Native Americans and Louisiana Baptists, yet returning teams from the recent simultaneous revivals in New Mexico and other states, reported a movement of God's Spirit with 88 professions of faith.

Fellow architects of AIA Baton Rouge awarded the Members Choice Award to Pistorius Associates of Hammond for design of the Northshore Eye Clinic on Hammond's Yokum Road .

A truck slammed into the Thibodaux Fire Department's Bowie station Monday morning, shattering the station's toilets, damaging walls and briefly flooding the building following a three-car wreck in front of the station.

Fire crews from three parishes are battling a massive blaze along the Tickfaw River in Livingston Parish.

A Tangipahoa Parish justice of the peace is taking a lot of heat, after refusing to marry an interracial couple.

Tangipahoa Parish's litter problem is creating high levels of pollution in Ponchatoula Creek and Yellow Water River, two main water drainage routes for central and south Tangipahoa Parish.