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St. Tammany neighbors unite against crime

Despite the raffles, free food and Marine brass band second lining through Carriage Lane estates Tuesday night, Bonnie Romano doesn’t liken her annual Night Out Against Crime soiree to a party.
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False burglar alarm law in the works
A Slidell City Council member would like to see fewer false burglar alarms in the city and is working on legislation to beef up the current burglar alarm ordinance.
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Hazardous chemical forces evacuation
Three people exposed to an unknown hazardous chemical brought inside a walk-in clinic north of Covington Wednesday afternoon were decontaminated and treated at a local hospital, a Mandeville district fire chief said.
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Covington man killed in accident with 18-wheeler
Petra Garcia wonders if she’ll die next.
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Operation Safe Streets results in 302 citations
More than a week after Sheriff’s Office deputies issued 302 tickets in a daylong blitz to curb side street speeders, logistics are being hashed out for another crackdown today.
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Sheriff deputies looking for Wendy'��s armed robber
The St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office is looking for a suspect wanted in an attempted armed robbery of a Wendy’s restaurant just outside Slidell city limits Tuesday night.
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Slidell residents gather in church halls and city's neighborhoods
From church fellowship halls to neighborhood cul-de-sacs, citizens all over St. Tammany Parish came out in support of the 25th annual National Night Out Against Crime Tuesday.
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Charter changes adopted, added to November ballot
An ordinance proposing amendments to the Covington Home Rule Charter was passed at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting and will now be placed on the ballot for November’s election.
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Rooms To Go construction begins in Pearl River
It’s thundering in Pearl River, but it’s not coming from any storm.
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Covington celebrates safety, neighbors for night out Tuesday
St. Tammany Parish School Superintendent Gayle Sloan was the special guest at the Covington Night Out Against Crime celebration Tuesday at the Greater Covington Center. As part of the festivities, Sloan was presented a proclamation and a bouquet of roses honoring her for her efforts and involvement in this year’s event.
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Brock Elementary will reopen in October
Three years ago when Hurricane Katrina came calling, Brock Elementary School in Slidell was one of her victims. This October, students and faculty will be moving back home.
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DNA lab receives worldwide attention
In early 2007, a masked man and his father burst down the door of a Folsom area pharmacy, likely high on prescription painkillers and salivating for more. Clutching the cold hard steel pistol his demeanor said it all: give me drugs and money or die.
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Former parole officer sentenced
A former probation and parole officer who supervised St. Tammany felons was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for sexual abusing at least three of his female clients.
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Three sentenced in separate cases
A Lacombe man faces life in prison as a career criminal after he was convicted last Friday for pummeling a man seven years ago during a road rage incident.
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Butts disappearing, but work still left to do
The campaign to wipe out the litter of cigarette butts on the streets of Slidell is starting to work, but Bill Mauser, chairman of the Keep Slidell Beautiful Committee, said there is still more to do to sweep the butts away.
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Slidell dumpster ordinance sees some success
In the year and a half since the Slidell City Council passed the dumpster ordinance, the results have been positive and negative.
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Hales goes where the wild things are
Forget Jeff Corwin. Slidell’s got Lee Hales, its very own traveling wildlife expert.
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Clearing the rivers
About 480 cubic yards of hurricane-related debris has been removed from the Bogue Falaya and the Tchefuncte rivers as part of the Natural Resources Conservation Service-USDA Emergency Watershed Protection program.
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Scalise hosting energy meeting in Mandeville
U.S. Congressman Steve Scalise, R-Metairie, is surfing the energy wave.
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Slidell to buy UNO building to start City Hall complex
Slidell city employees who have been working out of a complex of trailers on Bayou Lane since Hurricane Katrina are one step closer to moving back to City Hall in Olde Towne, thanks to the Louisiana Legislature and Gov. Bobby Jindal.
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Tennessee woman arrested on meth possession charges
An alert security officer at the Natchez Drive Wal-Mart tipped off police, who arrested a Tennessee woman Monday evening for the possession of two grams of methamphetamine.
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Two Hammond teens arrested for attempted burglary of church
By Erik Sanzenbach
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Highway 21 widening project slated to begin in the fall
Hammond-based Gilmore & Sons Construction Corp. should soon start widening Louisiana Highway 21 from two lanes to four in the fall, a parish spokesman said this week.
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Parish Council to vote on sewerage sale measure
Voters between Covington and Abita Springs will be asked on Oct. 4 for permission to sell the debt-riddled Sewerage District No. 6 to a private company if Parish Council members approve the measure tomorrow night.
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FEMA flood zone maps on display for public
Public meetings with officials from the city of Slidell and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are slated this week so city and parish residents can look at new flood zone data that may change their flood insurance rates.
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