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SHPSO Deputy Michael Damato shows two of the mobile meth labs found in Pine Grove. Photo by Stephanie Warren
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Over the past ten days St. Helena Parish Deputies while on patrol have discovered several portable methamphetamine laboratories in and around the Pine Grove area. According to reports it appears so...
TAMNGI SCHOOL BOARD: Members wrangle over minutes and what actually happened
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TANGI SCHOOL BOARD McDaniel asks for new discussion for paddling in schools
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TANGI SCHOOL BOARD: James Tymon calls for improvements for Independence Middle Magnet
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HURRICANE PLANNING: How you can save state sales tax on storm-related items May 25-26
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St. Martinville – Relying almost solely on the memories of an ordeal that occurred when the victim was only 10 years old back in 1984, St. Martin Parish Assistant District Attorney Pamela Lemoines ...
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BATON ROUGE--With the recent IRS scandal at the forefront of most news outlets across the country, Louisiana tax resolution attorney Cary Bryson, co-founder of Bryson Law Firm, L.L.C., is stressin...
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BATON ROUGE--The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) dedicated a statue May 21, in Baton Rouge to honor those Enforcement Division agents who have died in the line of duty. The s...
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LAFAYETTE – A New Iberia woman was sentenced Monday to 26 months in federal prison and for filing false claims of more than $12 million with the IRS and receiving tax refunds she was not owed. She...
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CHOPIN – Gov. Bobby Jindal and President and Chief Financial Officer Roy O. Martin, III of RoyOMartin-Martco Ltd. Partnership announced Monday that the company will invest $20 million to modernize...
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ZACHARY – Three Zachary women are charged with Medicaid fraud, each accused of filing false claims.
All three were arrested May 15 by the State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with a...
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KENTWOOD-- As a genealogist researcher, you can spend countless of hours and years collecting documents, photographs, newspaper articles and other sources that can be important to your family hist...
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GREENSBURG--Dr. Thomas Tucker Jr. was born to the wedlock of the Thomas Sr., and Flora Coleman Tucker on March 12, 1879, in Chipola, Louisiana. Dr. Tucker married Ida Wright on January 24, 1898 a...
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AMITE-The following was compiled from the Amite Tangi-Digest, Tangi-Talk, St. Helena Echo and Kentwood News-Ledger May 23, 2007 - Rebecca Davis, a fourth grader at Oak Forest, threw out the cere...
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KENTWOOD--Sitting at home and gazing out of the window, I found myself reflecting on my ancestral trip to Niger, West Africa. I asked myself today: what is so special about this moment that remin...
HISTORY PICTURE OF THE WEEK Alice Irving Vernon had a large Tangi farm and was a Roseland seamstress
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Photo and story by Jacqueline James Pendleton-Dukes ROSELAND--Alice Luberta Irving was born in 1890, she met and married Fred Vernon Sr. around 1917 in Roseland and died in1993 in Tangipahoa Paris...
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AMITE—I was invited to join a group of passionate crocheters who spend their Monday morning hours crocheting and knitting at the Amite library. It was then that I realized the art of crocheting, k...
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Ronald Joseph Sceroler Sr., a resident of Springfield passed away peacefully at Hood Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. He was born on May 15, 1937 to Andrew and Eunice Sceroler in Bat...
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Former mayor
HENDERSON – Services will be Friday for former mayor Earl “To-Bit” Patin. He died May 21 at age 74.
He was mayor from 1996 to 22045 and was a village councilman for eight years prior ...
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Mud-logging exec
LAFAYETTE – Services for mud-logging company founder William Scott will be Friday. He died May 20 at age 90.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II’s European theater, recommen...
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Long-time vet
METAIRIE – Services for long-time vet Dr. Thomas Melius, Jr. will be Thursday. He died May 19 at age 90.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was former veterinarian for Aud...
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Nursing homes owner
ALEXANDRIA – Services for former Louisiana Nursing Home Association president Finley C. Matthews, Jr. are Monday. He died May 15 at age 78.
He was owner/operator of Naomi Height...
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Hospital executive
LAKE CHARLES – Services were Saturday for hospital executive Dave Usher. He died May 15 at age 62.
He was senior vice president of business development at Lake Charles Memorial ...
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By Don Ellzey AMITE--Six Tangilena men were cited and fined in Kansas and Iowa for illegally taking wild game. Officer Ryan Walker, game warden and natural resource officer with the Kansas Wildli...
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PONCHATOULA--Ponchatoula Police Chief Bry Layrisson reports that an overnight shooting has left a Ponchatoula man in stable condition at a local hospital. Chief Layrisson states that shortly after...
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TICKFAW –Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports the arrest of Daniel Bridges, 51, of Tickfaw, Friday, May 24.
Bridges is behind bars after a disturbance occurred at a LA 442 residence. ...
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AMITE-The following people were arrested and booked and/or incarcerated and scheduled to be released from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail between May 16 and 21: How the jail census has changed Censu...
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NATALBANY--Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards is asking the public for more information in the murder investigation involving victim James Dillon, 20, of Independence. Investigators suspect ...
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LIVINGSTON--District Attorney Scott M. Perrilloux reports that the following individuals appeared in court on May 13 before Judge Zorraine Waguespack, and either pleaded guilty or no contest or we...
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KENTWOOD-- As a genealogist researcher, you can spend countless of hours and years collecting documents, photographs, newspaper articles and other sources that can be important to your family hist...
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GREENSBURG--Dr. Thomas Tucker Jr. was born to the wedlock of the Thomas Sr., and Flora Coleman Tucker on March 12, 1879, in Chipola, Louisiana. Dr. Tucker married Ida Wright on January 24, 1898 a...
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AMITE-The following was compiled from the Amite Tangi-Digest, Tangi-Talk, St. Helena Echo and Kentwood News-Ledger May 23, 2007 - Rebecca Davis, a fourth grader at Oak Forest, threw out the cere...
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AMITE--Winn-Dixie is putting on a Summer Bash Saturtday, June 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. --Lots of fun, food, more fun! --family and kids events! Winn Dixie is at 804 West Oak Street, Amite You c...
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By Don Ellzey AMITE -- It took the Tangipahoa Parish School Board three and one-half hours on May 15 to agree to proposals submitted by the administration to bring next year's budget into balance,...
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By Don Ellzey AMITE -- The Tangipahoa Parish School Board may be asked to take another look at its prohibition against corporal punishment--paddling. Board member Gail McDaniel asked during the Ma...
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