Sheriff Randy Smith has announced that the 2019 Deputy of the Year is Detective Zachary Bruno. During 2019, Detective Bruno was assigned 99 cases and had a solve rate of 51 percent. Detective Bruno investigates systematic thefts, embezzlements, scams, contractor thefts and elderly financial abuse cases. Last year, he spearheaded an investigation into a major…
Gov. John Bel Edwards and Scariano Wholesale Foods CEO Jay Scariano III announced a $10 million expansion of the wholesale food distribution facility near Hammond, Louisiana. The project will improve transportation, access and logistics at the site while creating 20 new direct jobs with an average annual salary of $42,000, plus benefits. Louisiana Economic Development…
Area rivers are still dealing with high water. Until Monday February 10 the Flood Warning continues for the Tangipahoa River Near Robert. At 5:30 PM yesterday the stage was 12.9 feet. Flood stage is 15.0 feet and it is expected to rise above flood stage today and continue to rise to near 16.5 feet by…
St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper, Slidell Mayor Greg Cromer, Stirling Properties and St. Tammany Parish community leaders joined in a official ribbon-cutting ceremony, followed by guided tours of a new 32,000-square-foot industrial facility at Fremaux Park in Slidell. The facility will repair, service, and assemble industrial gearboxes in the Fremaux mixed-use development. The new…
40 YO Shaun Travis Hobgood, a resident of Highway 21 in Angie, was arrested by a Washington Parish Sheriff’s Sergeant as a fugitive from St. Tammany and is being transferred to serve a sentence there. The officer was on patrol north of Bogalusa when he observed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed.…
A portion of Sisters Road will be closed Wednesday, Feb. 12. Tangipahoa Parish President Robby Miller said crews will close a portion of the roadway between S. Hoover and Pleasant Ridge Extension to change out a cross drain, weather permitting. The closure will be posted, and motorists will need to use alternate routes between the…
The Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office said the FBI has been brought in to investigate whether any civil rights were violated in the death of 17 YO Jaquarius Taylor. Taylor was found dead in the Varnado area last month. Since then a dive team found a cellphone that likely belonged to Taylor at a fishing area…
Health officials at LSU in Baton Rouge are working to determine how at least five students living off-campus have come down with the mumps. The Louisiana Office of Public Health says the contagious disease can spread through contact with saliva or respiratory droplets. He says they’re still at the earliest parts of the investigation when…
Award-winning novelist and Southeastern Louisiana University Assistant Professor of Creative Writing David Armand has been named the University of Louisiana System’s Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year. A native of Folsom and resident of Hammond with both undergraduate and graduate degrees in English from Southeastern, he is the author of three novels, two books of…
Sheriff Randy Smith will partner again this Carnival season with STARC to collect beads during local Mardi Gras parades. Look for the STPSO float at the end of the parades for a chance to throw your unwanted beads back to benefit STARC. They’ll be in the Krewe of Poseidon Feb. 8 in Slidell. On Feb…