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HAMMOND--Col. Pat Griffin joins first responder Larry Bankston and Tangipahoa Parish council member Louis "Nick" Joseph at a hurricane summit May 21 at Camp Chemekette. Griffin is heading up the transformation of the Roseland disaster response center. Bankston is assistant chief of the Wilmer Fire Department, where he began working at age 18. Joseph has over three decades of military service including Vietnam. Photo by Mark Mathes.
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ROSELAND--The new Roseland disaster distribution center will be one of the largest centers in Louisiana packed with massive tons of emergency supplies and hundreds of Louisiana National Guard troo...
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BATON ROUGE--The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) dedicated a statue May 21, in Baton Rouge to honor those Enforcement Division agents who have died in the line of duty. The s...
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LAFAYETTE – A New Iberia woman was sentenced Monday to 26 months in federal prison and for filing false claims of more than $12 million with the IRS and receiving tax refunds she was not owed. She...
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CHOPIN – Gov. Bobby Jindal and President and Chief Financial Officer Roy O. Martin, III of RoyOMartin-Martco Ltd. Partnership announced Monday that the company will invest $20 million to modernize...
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ZACHARY – Three Zachary women are charged with Medicaid fraud, each accused of filing false claims.
All three were arrested May 15 by the State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with a...
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BATON ROUGE-– Troopers from Louisiana State Police Troop A began investigating a single vehicle serious injury crash Sunday, May 19 involving a pedestrian. It that occurred on LA 427 (Perkins Rd.)...
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BRANCH – A Eunice teenager died from wounds received in a shooting Sunday evening at the Branch/Church Point highway crossroad.
According to Acadia Parish Sheriff Wayne Melancon deputies responded ...
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KENTWOOD-- As a genealogist researcher, you can spend countless of hours and years collecting documents, photographs, newspaper articles and other sources that can be important to your family hist...
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GREENSBURG--Dr. Thomas Tucker Jr. was born to the wedlock of the Thomas Sr., and Flora Coleman Tucker on March 12, 1879, in Chipola, Louisiana. Dr. Tucker married Ida Wright on January 24, 1898 a...
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AMITE-The following was compiled from the Amite Tangi-Digest, Tangi-Talk, St. Helena Echo and Kentwood News-Ledger May 23, 2007 - Rebecca Davis, a fourth grader at Oak Forest, threw out the cere...
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KENTWOOD--Sitting at home and gazing out of the window, I found myself reflecting on my ancestral trip to Niger, West Africa. I asked myself today: what is so special about this moment that remin...
HISTORY PICTURE OF THE WEEK Alice Irving Vernon had a large Tangi farm and was a Roseland seamstress
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Photo and story by Jacqueline James Pendleton-Dukes ROSELAND--Alice Luberta Irving was born in 1890, she met and married Fred Vernon Sr. around 1917 in Roseland and died in1993 in Tangipahoa Paris...
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AMITE—I was invited to join a group of passionate crocheters who spend their Monday morning hours crocheting and knitting at the Amite library. It was then that I realized the art of crocheting, k...
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Mud-logging exec
LAFAYETTE – Services for mud-logging company founder William Scott will be Friday. He died May 20 at age 90.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II’s European theater, recommen...
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Long-time vet
METAIRIE – Services for long-time vet Dr. Thomas Melius, Jr. will be Thursday. He died May 19 at age 90.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was former veterinarian for Aud...
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Nursing homes owner
ALEXANDRIA – Services for former Louisiana Nursing Home Association president Finley C. Matthews, Jr. are Monday. He died May 15 at age 78.
He was owner/operator of Naomi Height...
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Hospital executive
LAKE CHARLES – Services were Saturday for hospital executive Dave Usher. He died May 15 at age 62.
He was senior vice president of business development at Lake Charles Memorial ...
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A resident of Amite, Jacqueline Populis Albin died on Friday, May 17, 2013 at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. She was born May 24, 1951 in Independence and was 61 years of age. She was a memb...
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Pioneer plumber
BATON ROUGE – Services for Paul Hlllard, Sr., the first African American to be certified by the City of Baton Rouge and the State of Louisiana as a master plumber, will be Saturday....
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BATON ROUGE--The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) dedicated a statue May 21, in Baton Rouge to honor those Enforcement Division agents who have died in the line of duty. The s...
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INDEPENDENCE--Troopers from Louisiana State Police Troop L witnessed firsthand the lifesaving importance of seat belt use during the afternoon investigation of a fatal crash on LA 1054 May 20 appro...
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AMITE—The Amite City Council agreed to hire a uniformed Amite Police officer to screen those who attend council meetings with a metal detector and a “wand” to spot weapons or other objects, at a c...
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NATALBANY – Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards reports that the Criminal Investigations Division is investigating a homicide which occurred near Natalbany Extension at approximately 11:45 Su...
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AMITE--District Attorney Scott Perrilloux listed felony cases expected to be heard in Amite and Livingston district court. Full dockets are posted weekly at www.21jdda.org. Tangipahoa May 21, D...
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ADAMSVILLE, TN – State Police Colonel Mike Edmonson traveled May 18 to Tennessee at the invitation of Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork to attend the 25th Annual Sheriff Buford Pusser Festiva...
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KENTWOOD-- As a genealogist researcher, you can spend countless of hours and years collecting documents, photographs, newspaper articles and other sources that can be important to your family hist...
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GREENSBURG--Dr. Thomas Tucker Jr. was born to the wedlock of the Thomas Sr., and Flora Coleman Tucker on March 12, 1879, in Chipola, Louisiana. Dr. Tucker married Ida Wright on January 24, 1898 a...
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AMITE-The following was compiled from the Amite Tangi-Digest, Tangi-Talk, St. Helena Echo and Kentwood News-Ledger May 23, 2007 - Rebecca Davis, a fourth grader at Oak Forest, threw out the cere...
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AMITE—The Amite City Council agreed to hire a uniformed Amite Police officer to screen those who attend council meetings with a metal detector and a “wand” to spot weapons or other objects, at a c...
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INDEPENDENCE--A delegation of solid waste professionals from China visited the Tangipahoa Parish Landfill Monday, May 20, at the invitation of parish President Gordon Burgess and landfill Director ...
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By Don Ellzey AMITE -- During a marathon three and one-half hour meeting that included some spittin' and spattin' between north and south Tangipahoa Parish members, the school board whittled a pro...
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