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ActionNews17 posted on March 09, 2010 14:27
Stacy Hopper, a 22 year old white male who listed his address as 103 Hicks Road, Grover, North Carolina, is charged as follows:
>1 Count Improper ...
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posted on March 09, 2010 11:14
AMITE---Amite Police have arrested two local men in the fire that destroyed the former site of Amite Building Supply on Hwy 51 two weeks ago.
Amite P...
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posted on March 09, 2010 11:08
AMITE – Crime Stoppers of Tangipahoa, Inc. is pleased to introduce its 2010 Board of Directors and 2010 Officers.
The Board of Directors and ...
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posted on March 09, 2010 06:52
Burglary Suspect Arrested
ROBERT – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that 33 year old suspect Ronald Williams of Traino Rd. in...
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posted on March 08, 2010 13:51
SLIDELL---On Friday, March 5, 2010 at approximately 10:30 pm. Officer Theresa Lubrano was in the drive thru line at the McDonalds on Brownswitch. ...
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posted on March 08, 2010 03:48
COVINGTON – The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man described as a dark skinned black male, approx. 5’11”, 200 lbs. in his 20’s i...
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posted on March 08, 2010 03:45
HAMMOND- Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Agents arrested two suspects on narcotics charges as they w...
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posted on March 08, 2010 03:41
TICKFAW – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating a murder which occu...
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posted on March 05, 2010 05:49
Worthless Checks Division – Wanted Suspects
Amite, LA – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that the CID Worthless Checks Divisi...
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posted on March 05, 2010 05:47
Sheriff Edwards Partners in Leading the Fight Against Underage Drinking
HAMMOND- Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards proudly announces a...
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posted on March 04, 2010 06:04 
Quick Action Breaks Up Fencing and Drug Dealing Operation
At approximately 11:00 AM on Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Brian Martin pulled into the Aqu...
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posted on March 04, 2010 06:01
Press Conference Scheduled
HAMMOND - Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports the following:
A press conference and open house has been sc...
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posted on March 03, 2010 12:11 
SLIDELL – Wednesday at 2:28 pm, Louisiana State Police Troop L investigated a two vehicle fatal crash on Interstate 10 eastbound at milepost #265...
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posted on March 01, 2010 22:19
For Immediate Release
March 1st, 2010
Head-On Collision takes Two Lives in Washington Parish
Washington Parish – Today at 5:25...
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posted on March 01, 2010 09:15
Text message helps prevent planned robbery
On Saturday, February 27, 2010 Slidell Detectives arrested Joshua A. Alred, age 30 of...
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posted on March 01, 2010 09:11
March 1st, 2010
ATM Technician charged with Theft
Based on a complaint received in October 2009, Louisiana State Police Region I Detectives began ...
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posted on March 01, 2010 06:00
Worthless Checks Division – Wanted Suspects
Amite, LA – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that Detective Dean Waltzer of the W...
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posted on March 01, 2010 05:57 
On Sunday February 28, 2010, Deputy Chad Woodward responded to Weinberger Rd. in reference to a male subject lying in the roadway covered in blood....
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posted on March 01, 2010 05:39 
Home Invasion Leads to Arrest of Two Men
On Saturday February 27, 2010 around 1:45 pm, an elderly woman, who was taking an afternoon nap in her 4H ...
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posted on March 01, 2010 05:29 
INDEPENDENCE---A wood-frame house on 4th Street in downtown Independence was totally burned in a Sunday morning blaze, according to Fire Chief Dennis ...
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posted on February 28, 2010 14:06
SORRENTO – Two young men from southern Tangipahoa Parish were killed Sunday in a three-vehicle crash on LA 70 near Sorrento shortly after 5:00 p.m....
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posted on February 28, 2010 13:37
HOLDEN---State Fire Marshal investigators and firefighters from at least four neighboring departments were on the scene of a raging fire at an abandon...
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posted on February 28, 2010 12:10
COVINGTON - Escapee Carlos Rodriguez was captured early Sunday morning in Kenner following an extensive man hunt.
Sunday's arrest and capture ...
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posted on February 28, 2010 00:44
Driver Impairment suspected in Head-On Fatality
St. Helena – Today at 1:35 pm, Louisiana State Police Troop L investigated a two vehicle fatal cras...
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posted on February 26, 2010 11:27
SHERIFF’S K9 APPREHENDS FLEEING SUSPECT
HAMMOND- Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that K9 Bart apprehends suspect fleeing fro...
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posted on February 26, 2010 11:18
Arrest Made in 1993 Murder Cold Case
On February 25, 2010, Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Detectives obtained a warrant for the arrest of the man resp...
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posted on February 26, 2010 11:12 
Arrest Made in 1997 Rape Cold Case
On February 25, 2010, Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Detectives arrested a man responsible for the 1997 kidnapping...
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posted on February 26, 2010 11:08
HAMMOND MAN DROWNS AFTER FISHING ACCIDENT
INDEPENDENCE – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that the TPSO investigated an incident on T...
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posted on February 26, 2010 11:03
AZIZI ANSARI, age 34, a resident of Seattle, Washington, was sentenced yesterday by U. S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon to twenty (20) years (240 mon...
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posted on February 25, 2010 12:14
HAMMOND - Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports the following:
Michael ...
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posted on February 25, 2010 11:21
AMITE – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that on February 2nd 2010, 39 year old Larry Wayne Dendy Jr. of 47261 Eldridge Magee Rd. in F...
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posted on February 25, 2010 09:53 
DENHAM SPRINGS---On the evening of February 24, 2010 around 7:00 p.m. Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office Special Response Team Members executed a sear...
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posted on February 25, 2010 09:18
FAMILY SAVED FROM HOUSE FIRE BY ALERT NEIGHBOR
02/23/2010
The Harrison family is lucky to be alive.
Shortly after 7 a.m. today, a neighbor notic...
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posted on February 25, 2010 08:51
Narcotics Arrest
PONCHATOULA – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards report the arrest of Terry Lee Nutter ( w/m dob 09/25/1950) of 10366 John Hol...
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posted on February 25, 2010 08:49
BATON ROUGE---United States Attorney David R. Dugas announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging TAMMY L. COPELAND, age 3...
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posted on February 25, 2010 08:47
CHRISTY ALEXANDER, age 24, a resident of Hammond, LA, was charged in a one-count bill of information today with mail fraud relating to fraudulent appl...
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posted on February 25, 2010 08:46
HAMMOND – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that TPSO Narcotics Agents along with the Hammond Police Department executed four search wa...
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posted on February 23, 2010 12:20 
Billowing swirls of smoke alerted passersby Tuesday to the fire at Murphy Oil in Amite. An RV caught fire while parked at the gas pumps shortly ...
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posted on February 23, 2010 08:46
Drug Arrests and Vehicle Seizure in Ponchatoula
PONCHATOULA---On February 23, 2010, K-9 Officer Mike Hill was patrolling West Pine Street when he ob...
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posted on February 23, 2010 04:12
DENHAM SPRINGS---On February 20, 2010 at approximately 4:30 am a man, who lives on Millstone Drive near Walker, was awakened by the sound of a car ala...
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posted on February 23, 2010 04:10
Ponchatoula Police-Arrest Report
Chief of Police Bry Layrisson reported that the following individuals were arrested in Ponchatoula and charged as fo...
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posted on February 23, 2010 03:56
HAMMOND – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that Detective Vic Ferrara of the Worthless Checks Division is asking for your a...
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posted on February 22, 2010 12:56
SLIDELL---On February 21, 2010 at 5:42 pm a Slidell Police Officer spotted a stolen 2008 White Ford Crew Cab F-250 on Pontchartrain Drive. The Of...
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posted on February 22, 2010 12:51
ST. TAMMANY DRUG DEALERS RECEIVE LENGTHY FEDERAL JAIL SENTENCES
February 22, 2010
NATHANIEL JACKSON III, age 24, of Covington, Louisiana, was sent...
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posted on February 22, 2010 12:51
NATALBANY – Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that on Saturday, February 20, 2010, at approximately 6:15 PM, Deputy Cameron Crockett responded Thoma...
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posted on February 21, 2010 22:06
February 21st, 2010
**Update**
Passenger in the Ford Mustang, Brittany Thornhill, remains in critical but stable condition at St. Tammany Parish Hos...
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posted on February 21, 2010 03:41 
Covington – Today at 02:10am, Louisiana State Police Troop L investigated a one vehicle serious injury crash on LA 21 north of Covington at milepost #...
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posted on February 19, 2010 14:17
SLIDELL---After nine years, David W. Eubank was returned to Slidell and booked with Simple Escape.
The incident all started on January 31, 2001 at ar...
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posted on February 19, 2010 09:08 
posted on February 19, 2010 07:42
INDEPENDENCE---A pan of food left cooking on the stove is believed to have sparked a fire that heavily damaged the home of former Independence Fire Ch...
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posted on February 19, 2010 07:26 
87 Year Old Robbed by Friend
On February 19, 2010 at 9:40 am the Slidell Police Department was contacted by the daughter of an 8...
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posted on February 19, 2010 07:17
FLUKER – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports the arrest of two male subjects for manufacturing methamphetamines at a Hwy 10 residence in ...
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posted on February 18, 2010 12:55 
INDEPENDENCE---Independence police arrested Lee Adrian Barker on Tuesday for theft of an undetermined amount in cash and checks from Mater Dolorosa Ca...
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posted on February 18, 2010 11:07
AMITE – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that on Wednesday February 17, 2010, at approximately 1:35AM, Deputy Travis Graham and Deputy...
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posted on February 18, 2010 00:52 
HAMMOND-– Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that sheriff’s deputies arrest two suspects in the act of attempting to burglarize a reside...
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posted on February 16, 2010 12:56 
DENHAM SPRINGS---Livingston Parish Sheriff's Deputies have arrested a Denham Springs man and charged him in more than two dozen burglaries in the pari...
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posted on February 14, 2010 10:18
UPDATE: Troopers and clean-up crews worked through the night to get LA 70 and LA 3127 cleared before daybreak. Crews are still on the scen...
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posted on February 12, 2010 04:06 
PONCHATOULA – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that on February 11, 2010, TPSO Narcotics Agents arrested two Ponchatoula residents for...
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posted on February 12, 2010 03:45
COVINGTON – St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain announced the termination of four deputies Friday, following a more than six-week long internal aff...
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posted on January 25, 2010 00:40
AMITE---District Attorney Scott M. Perrilloux reports that the following individuals appeared in court on January 11, 2010, before Judge Elizabeth Wol...
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AMITE

Oyster Festival

The Bar-B-Que Station on Hwy. 51 in Independence will be open throughout the three days of the Sicilian Festival with ice cold beer, great food, and live music!

Sicilian Grand Marshal
SDT Waste President Sidney Torres IV has been named Grand Marshal of the Sicilian Festival which runs Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Independence. Torres is pictured above with Mayor Mike Ragusa and Chairman Reggie Martin holding a case of Castello beer that was presented to him at Town Hall. The genuine imported Sicillian beer will be available at the festival this weekend.

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