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Colby Stokes is accused of killing his grandparents, fatally shooting both inside their home, then walking to the neighbor's house, confessing, and waiting for the police. The post Man killed grandparents, walked to neighbor’s home, confessed and waited for deputies: Sheriff first appeared on Law & Crime.

The puppies were on their leashes last month in Loranger, getting a bathroom break in the backyard when two strangers slipped inside and stole them, authorities said. Those accused puppy thieves were caught on home surveillance video, however, and turned themselves in on Thursday, Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's deputies said. Sarah...

Mel Manuel and Jeremy JF Thompson struggled to meet other LGBTQ+ folks when they moved to Covington three years ago. Having previously lived in New Orleans, Manuel and Thompson, who both use they/them pronouns, felt out of place in a less urban and more conservative region. Manuel, 40, and Thompson, 43, decided to create their own LGBTQ+ safe space. Two and a half years ago, the best friends co-founded Queer Northshore, a nonprofit based in St. Tammany Parish, to promote LGBTQ+ visibility, community and acceptance in Louisiana’s northshore region.

Get in a patriotic mood with Parish President Robby Miller at this morning's annual flag raising at Hammond Square.

Always with a smile, the first thing you noticed in Gaynell was her bubbly, friendly, outgoing personality. She loved to laugh, often the loudest when playing Booray with the “Sharks” in New Orleans. Born Gaynell Mary Delcazal in New Orleans on May 11, 1933, she lived a full...

The family of Jane Pittman Fornea would like to announce that she passed away peacefully at her home in Covington on Friday, June 28, 2024, at the age of 85. She was born in Tylertown, Mississippi, on November 13, 1938, to the late Marlice W. Pittman and Bobbie Phillips Pittman.

23-year-old charged with murder in fatal shooting of grandparents in Mt. Hermon.

Richard Bruce Glass was born on June 30, 1947, to Revis and Grace Glass in Pineville, Louisiana. He passed away on June 22, 2024, in Abita Springs, Louisiana. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Sandra Fay Glass; brothers Jim Glass, Ted Glass, Bobby Glass, Billy Glass, James Afford; and sisters Donna Glass Williams, Joyce Ann Glass and many nieces and nephews.

The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office (TPSO) has arrested a man on probation from Texas for multiple drug and weapons charges. Shawn Gray, age 25 and of Beaumont, TX, was booked into the Tangipahoa Parish Jail on Wednesday (July 3, 2024) on one count each of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Possession of a Weapon While Possessing CDS, Operating a Clandestine Laboratory, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Marijuana, and Probation Violation.

Harlon Fred Pine, 80 of Covington, Louisiana, passed away on June 30, 2024, at home with his loving wife. Harlon was born July 26, 1943, in McComb, Mississippi. He is the son of the late Fred I and Quida O’quin Pine. He is preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and one sister.

Lawrence Kelly Lockwood passed this life peacefully on July 1, 2024, in Hammond, Louisiana, at the age of 64. He was born on December 19, 1959, in San Francisco, California. Lawrence was born with Down Syndrome, and was fortunate to lead a charmed life due to the opportunities provided by his mother and the communities where he lived. As a young child, he attended Casady School, a preparatory school in Oklahoma City, where he learned to read. He continued his education through his high school years at Gretchen Everhart in Tallahassee, Florida, earning a high school diploma in 1978. After high school, his family moved to Hammond, Louisiana, and he became a resident at OPTIONS community home Fortenberry House. OPTIONS provided him an opportunity to work and to make life-long friends and live a fulfilling life. In the Community Home program, he learned basic life skills such as food preparation and shopping. He was able to contribute to his community for many years, for example, ironing clothes at Grace Memorial Episcopal Church in Hammond. Lawrence enjoyed traveling, and traveled many times from Hammond to Washington, DC to visit his brother, Robert. Lawrence loved sports. He was a regular participant in the Special Olympics, enjoying particularly track events and basketball. More than anything, Lawrence loved LSU sports, especially football and baseball, and he attended many games with family members and friends.

FLOYD RONALD JENKINS was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in the summer of 1944, and died in Covington in the summer of 2024, at the age of 80. He was an astute international businessman, an accomplished photographer, a lover of history, an insatiable reader, and an explorer. He collected antiques almost involuntarily, not for their value, but because they allowed him to intersect physically with a past that enthralled him. He was once described as a “walking encyclopedia.” In conversation, he could summon startling amounts of accurate, detailed knowledge of almost any topic, however obscure it may have been. He moved seamlessly through all cultures and social classes, but his concern was always for the overlooked, misunderstood and downtrodden among us. Ron grew up in rural Louisiana, at the end of a long, gravel road lined with oaks and Spanish moss. He was blessed with wonderful parents who he adored. His father Floyd was a master welder in a Madisonville shipyard, and his mother Mildred a Sunday school teacher at the local Church of God. He had a classic southern boyhood. He earned pocket money by picking cotton, was once treed by a dog determined to snatch his grandmother Grace’s bread roll from his hand, made cane syrup the old fashioned way in a mill, and loved a horse named King. He attended grade school at Lee Road, Covington High School and Southeastern University, but his mind rebelled against traditional classroom education. He entered the Army National Guard at Fort Polk, and the private sector workforce as a doorman at a local office of computer company Sperry Univac, where someone recognized and helped him to release what his teachers could not: his genius. He met the love of his life, Molly Dixon, working on a NASA space program, and wooed her in a yellow Mustang. Against the odds, Ron made his own path, building a brilliant career in international business, succeeding in senior assignments with multinational corporations in Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, England, the Netherlands and Australia, with forays into most countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and what was then the Soviet Union. He dressed impeccably, and worked at full throttle, never giving less than 100%. He took us with him, and together we filled our lives with adventure - skiing across a glacier from Switzerland into Italy, scaling an ancient temple in Central Java, shooting the rapids and crashing through a waterfall in the Philippines, trekking on camels through the Northwest Territory in Australia, walking in Shinto gardens in Japan. He retired to Louisiana, where his childhood love of horses emerged again, and led him to volunteer as photographer for the New Orleans Polo Club, and on the Board of New Heights Therapeutic Riding Center, working with horses to help children and adults with special needs. He rescued two abandoned dogs in succession, and they were among his closest companions. He had a beautiful laugh, and passions for Hemingway, Michener, Andrew Lloyd Weber, photography, good food, skiing, salty jokes and Greenings Island, Maine. But most of all, he loved, and was loved by, and will always be loved by, his family. He burned like a bright comet, and was no dim light. When we close our eyes, we still see the afterimage, but he has left us now to explore new worlds. Ron is survived by his beloved wife of 56 years Molly Dixon Jenkins, his son Ron and daughter-in-law Jennifer, his daughter Amy and son-in-law Stephen Stewart, his son Jesse and daughter-in-law Kelcie Kraft-Jenkins, his grandchildren India, Adrian, Evangeline, Charles, Marjorie, Romany, Kael and Larkyn, his brother Dale Jenkins and sister-in-law Brenda, their children Misty, Beau and Natalie, his sister-in-law JoEllen Wolcott and brother-in-law Steve, their children Mathew and Stephanie, his brother-in-law Marvin Moyers and sister-in-law Jenny, their children Jarred and Megan, by aunts, uncles and numerous cousins, by cherished friends, and by a large network of acquaintances.

Two women, who are accused of stealing puppies off of a Loranger back porch, have been arrested after turning themselves in to the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office on Thursday, July 4.

LAKE CHARLES - Three men including two Hammond natives were sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison for their involvement in a two-week long crime spree that spanned three states. The United States Department of Justice announced that the three men—Evan Ard, 22, of Hammond; Jaylon Brumfield, 25,...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office have arrested 3 people in connection with Fentanyl related overdose deaths on Wednesday, June 3. According to deputies, the following people were arrested:. Travis Freeze, 32, of Denham Springs, is charged with Second Degree Murder in the death of...

The woman charged in connection to the abduction of two Louisiana girls, which ended with one of them deceased in Mississippi, has been indicted on a capital murder charge.

A crime spree committed by three Louisiana men has ended with the trio serving lengthy federal prison sentences. The crime spree started in Madison then the trio moved to Kentwood, then to McComb, Miss., down to Beaumont, Texas, and they were finally caught in Vinton. Vicki T. Chance, public information officer for the U.S. Attorney’s […]

A couple died in a shooting at their Louisiana home, and their grandson is accused of pulling the trigger, deputies said. Colby Stokes, 23, reportedly confessed to a neighbor that he shot his grandparents Wednesday, July 3, WVUE reported, citing the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were called around...

School is out for the summer, but students of The New Octavians Studio have been busy continuing to learn and shine on stage. In just five days, under the direction of Executive Director Brent Goodrich, over a dozen second through 12th graders learned the songs in MTI’s Broadway Junior Revue “Pure Imagination.”