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• Mugging victim shoots armed robber; teenage suspect and mother arrested

  May 25, 2022 3:18 PM

  HAMMOND - A 17-year-old was brought to a hospital after the person he tried to mug shot him in the chest. According to a Facebook post from the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to reports of shots fired on Klein Road in Hammond on May 14. Further investigation... more »

• Man booked in child sex crime investigation now facing rape charge

  May 10, 2022 10:54 AM

  NAPOLEONVILLE - A man arrested in 2020 over child sex crimes is facing a new charge of rape after more allegations surfaced in recent weeks. Cody Landry, 31, was booked into the Assumption Parish Jail Tuesday on a charge of third-degree rape. Landry, who was out of the state,... more »

• Missing woman returned home safely

  August 17, 2021 2:56 PM

  UPDATE: Police were able to locate Tina Davis and bring her home without incident on Tuesday evening. Read the original story below. -------------------------------------- BATON ROUGE - Police are searching for a missing 30-year-old woman who may be suffering from medical issues. Baton Rouge Police Department said... more »

• Work program to hire 100 youth begins in March

  February 22, 2017 6:14 PM

  BATON ROUGE – The EmployBR Young Adult Services program is looking to hire 100 of the community's youth who are out of school for an eight-week work experience program, Mayor-President Sharon West Broome announced. The program, Making a Positive Stop (MAPS), is open to applicants between the ages of... more »

• 16-year-old to be tried as adult for stabbing Play Video

  October 14, 2015 11:33 AM

  GONZALES - A judge ruled that an Ascension Parish teen accused of killing another teen with a steak knife will be tried for murder as an adult. Sheriff's deputies said the teen, identified today as 16-year-old Jacob Westbrook, stabbed 18-year-old Todd Toups to death while Toups was visiting a... more »