07/14/11 AMITE, La. (AP) -- Tangipahoa Parish School Board members have voted to authorize their attorneys to "iron out" details of a proposed compromise in the district's 46-year-old desegregation lawsuit. The settlement, reached late last week just before a motion hearing before a federal judge, has not been finalized, board attorney Charles Patin said on Wednesday. Patin and attorney Ashley Sandage ...
07/14/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press AMITE, La. The Tangipahoa Parish Council has awarded a $4.64 million contact to Frank A. Anzalone General Contractors Inc. for construction of a new public library in Amite. The Advocate reported Anzalone's bid was the lowest among 12 submitted to the council, but exceeded the library system's budget for the project by $541,000. Project architect Michael ...
07/14/11 AMITE, La. (AP) - Tangipahoa Parish School Board members have voted to authorize their attorneys to "iron out" details of a proposed compromise in the district's 46-year-old desegregation lawsuit.
07/14/11 AMITE, La. (AP) - Tangipahoa Parish School Board members have voted to authorize their attorneys to "iron out" details of a proposed compromise in the district's 46-year-old desegregation lawsuit. The settlement, reached late last week just before a motion hearing before a federal judge, has not been finalized, board attorney Charles Patin said on Wednesday. Patin and attorney Ashley Sandage ...
07/08/11 Boy scouts, girl scouts and cub scouts with the Cypress Chauve District will be marking storm drains parish wide this weekend with information medallions as part of a service project to increase storm water drainage awareness.
07/02/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press AMITE CITY, La. The Amite City branch of the Tangipahoa Parish Library is moving to a new location. The Daily Star reported the library, currently housed in the Tangilena Village mall, will move to a new location in the mall until construction on its new site is completed in downtown Amite City. Ground-breaking for the new location is expected later this ...
06/29/11 AMITE, La. (AP) - The Tangipahoa Parish School Board will ask a federal judge to permit changes to its court-ordered desegregation plan without the agreement of the plaintiffs. The modifications would allow for construction of three new schools and the placing of a Career Education Center at Kentwood High School, board attorney Charles Patin said during a special meeting Tuesday morning. Pay ...
06/27/11 Is lack of evacuation plan negligence or malpractice? NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ A question that could shunt hundreds of Hurricane Katrina claims against hospitals away from court, putting them before a state malpractice panel, is up before the Louisiana Supreme Court.
06/24/11 The two-month regular legislative session ended Thursday, marked by lawmakers showing new signs of independence in defeating many of Gov. Bobby Jindal's key initiatives and bucking his opposition to a 4-cent cigarette tax renewal.
06/23/11 In a move to upgrade its generation fleet and meet long-term electricity needs for customers, Entergy Louisiana, LLC, a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation , has asked the Louisiana Public Service Commission for approval to build a new, nominally sized 550-megawatt natural gas unit at its existing Ninemile Point plant in Westwego, La.
06/20/11 BATON ROUGE -- Over the objections of some public school advocates, the Louisiana Senate voted 22-16 Monday to allow corporations to sponsor charter schools in exchange for controlling up to half of the enrollment slots and half of the governing...
06/16/11 Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Louisiana House refused Thursday to override Gov. Bobby Jindal's veto of a 4-cent cigarette tax renewal, with Republicans who supported the tax unwilling to embarrass the governor with what would have been the first legislative override in 18 years. Jindal called the legislation by Democratic Rep. Harold Ritchie of Bogalusa a tax increase because the ...
06/15/11 The Louisiana House voted 100-0 Tuesday for a bill that would prohibit any public body from awarding a contract to a business that does not agree to monitor its work force for illegal immigrants.File photoSen. Neil RiserAfter making three pages...
06/13/11 After slogging through the SUNO-UNO merger debacle, House Speaker Jim Tucker potentially had the roots of two pieces good news this week.
06/07/11 Industrial employment in Louisiana remained steady over the past twelve months according to the 2011 Louisiana Manufacturers Register?®, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News, Inc.
06/05/11 Firefighters from three counties and one Louisiana parish converged on southeastern Walthall County after fire broke out at Dexter Attendance Center on Highway 48 east of Tylertown around 5 p.m. Friday.
06/02/11 SOFTBALL Pos. player school cl avg. P Mariel Meche Rayne Sr. 17-9 P Paige Fink Jena Sr. 21-3 P Brooklyn Guillot Parkview Bapt. 23-4 P Hanna Gill Albany Sr. 20-5 C Katelyn Hines Avoyelles Sr. .425 IF Amber Edmond Avoyelles Sr. .375 IF Taylor Simon Notre Dame Sr. .517 IF Tiara Brown Jena Sr. .478 IF Jada Cobbs Brusly Sr. .459 OF Sydney Lahasky Catholic-NI Jr. .455 OF Lacey Barnette Caldwell Sr ...
06/01/11 Arrests Chief of Police Randy Smith released the following information: Times-Picayune archive May 25th, 2011: Milton Keys Jr., age 47 of Picayune, Miss., as arrested for being a fugitive from another jurisdiction. Amber E. Wallace, age 19 of 40101...
06/01/11 NEW ORLEANS--June 1, 2011--Fifteen teams representing some of the most prestigious high school football programs in Louisiana gathered at Tad Gormley Stadium on a near perfect day to play in the highly competitive Red Bull Game Breakers Louisiana qualifier. After a grueling day of intense play, O. Perry Walker High School was flawless in defeating the competition and solidifying their place in ...
05/31/11 BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana veterans who qualify to get the state's Honor Medal for past service should have the option to forgo a ceremony with Gov. Bobby Jindal handing them out, a Senate committee decided Tuesday. The Times-Picayune/Chris GrangerCommittee approves... | 
