Ponchatoula, LA

AMITE — Voters across Tangipahoa Parish headed to the polls Tuesday to settle an extensive, high-stakes local ballot deciding leadership for towns, courts and classrooms across the Northshore.The ballot featured contested races at every level of municipal and parish governance, including races for mayors, city marshals, police chiefs, aldermen and city council seats across local municipalities like Hammond, Ponchatoula, Independence and Amite. Voters also weighed in on critical Tangi

HAMMOND — Three 14-year-olds are facing charges after leading Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s deputies on a vehicle pursuit that ended with a foot chase into Hammond city limits over the weekend.The incident began Sunday, Nov. 1, when TPSO deputies located a 2016 Kia Forte traveling on Wardline Road in the Hammond area. The car had been reported stolen earlier that morning out of Ponchatoula.When deputies attempted a traffic stop, the driver refused to pull over and accelerated

PONCHATOULA — Ponchatoula police are asking for help identifying three people in a vandalism investigation at Ponchatoula Junior High School.According to the police department, three unidentified people entered the school on the nights of Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31 and damaged several classrooms.Police asked anyone with information about the investigation to call the department at (985) 386-6548.Permalink| Comments

Police say the masked suspects entered and vandalised the campus on two nights over the weekend.

The Ponchatoula Police Department is investigating a vandalism incident that happened at Ponchatoula Junior High School.Police say the incident happen...

The advisory was issued after the discovery of a damaged water main.

According to Ponchatoula Police Chief Bry Layrisson, this marks the community’s fourth child death within the past twelve months.

PONCHATOULA — Two people were arrested after a two-year-old died from ingesting kratom, the Ponchatoula Police Department said.Officials said that they began investigating the death of the two-year-old on Aug. 24, where they interviewed Brooke Harter, the mother, and her boyfriend Dominick Cenni.The autopsy report concluded that the two-year-old juvenile's cause of death was the toxic effects of kratom, the police department said.Cinni and Harter were booked for negligent homicide, c

Both suspects face negligent homicide, cruelty to juveniles and criminal abandonment charges.

Two people have been charged in connection with the death of a 2-year-old in Ponchatoula, police said.Brooke Harter, 31, and Dominick Cenni, 27, turne...