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Faulk chosen to play in All-American Bowl

Northshore High senior offensive lineman Chris Faulk has been selected to play in the ninth annual 2009 U.S. Army All-American Bowl on Jan. 3, 2009, at the Alamodome in San Antonio.

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Slidell flood rates change

The residents of Slidell are recipients of a rare occurrence — good news from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Mandeville fires cause havoc

St. Tammany Fire District 4 had its work cut out for it Saturday with a trio of house fires in the Woodridge subdivision and another on Villere Street.

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Accused trigger woman arrested again for arson

A Madisonville woman arrested last month for firing a shotgun blast at her daughter’s ex-boyfriend was arrested again Monday for allegedly burning down her former house.

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New constable ready to serve after return to public service

The political bones in John Mathies III won’t let him sit still.

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Highway 1077 losing ground

The wheels on the bus go bumpedy-bump over Louisiana Highway 1077 in Madisonville.

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Price likely to discuss city vehicle with Mandeville council

Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price announced several weeks ago he completed his 12-week counseling program and is now ready to drive his city-issued vehicle again.

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Cameras for Causeway crossovers proposed

Causeway officials plan to install a $300,000 network of motion sensitive cameras that detect stalled vehicles or distressed persons who pulled into the bridge’s crossovers.

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Charmaine Neville playing at Olde Towne Alive

Internationally known singer-dancer-actress-comedienne Charmaine Neville will take the stage at Robert and First streets tonight at 6:15 p.m. for this month’s Olde Towne Alive block party.

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Students learn fire extrication process

Glass was flying and metal was crunching at Fire Protection District 4’s training facility in Mandeville recently.

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Tourism Commission awards funds for two projects

The Tammany Trace Foundation and the city of Covington were the big winners Wednesday after the St. Tammany Tourist Commission heard from three applicants hoping to share $56,663 from the commission’s Special Reserve Fund. Every year the commission sets aside money in the Special Reserve Fund, which is used to help pay for the bricks and mortar parts of projects that promote St. Tammany Parish tourism and attract both out-of-state and out-of-parish tourists. The recipients of the funds must finish the projects in a timely manner.

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With gas prices lower, energy prices to follow suit

Gas prices are dropping like leaves in autumn, but is your energy bill doing the same?

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Pearl River man eludes SWAT before arrest

A Pearl River man was recently arrested after he threatened to kill his wife during a game of Russian roulette, then escaped through thick fog when a SWAT team arrived at their home.

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SYFA coach busted for possession

A Slidell man who coaches for the Slidell Youth Football Association was issued a summons Sunday for possession of marijuana, according to the Slidell police.

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Covington City Council passes 2009 budget

The proposed $18.1 million budget was approved unanimously at a special meeting of the Covington City Council Wednesday night, but not before the meeting turned into a war of words.

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Week 3 Hoopla winners selected

Three St. Tammany News readers won the third round of “Holiday Hoopla” this week.

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Murder suspect has history of KKK activity

Raymond “Chuck” Foster, the alleged Ku Klux Klan leader arrested Monday for killing a woman following a Klan initiation ritual near Sun, has a history of Klan activity dating back at least to January 2001, Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center said.

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Slidell teen celebrates Sweet 16 in hospital

Ashlee Stokes celebrated her 16th birthday at Touro Hospital in New Orleans last week, nearly six months after a head-on collision with an apparent drunk driver left the Slidell teenager in a coma.

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Slidell woman sewing up hats and smiles for cancer patients

Fran Matherne’s dining room has been turned into a sewing room, and for someone who didn’t know how to sew just a few months ago, that’s a pretty big change.

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Klan initiation ends with recruit's murder

Eight Ku Klux Klan members from the Bogalusa area were arrested Tuesday after allegedly killing a Tulsa, Okla., woman during an initiation ritual in a remote northern St. Tammany Parish campsite, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office officials said.

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School Board recognizes parish Teachers of Year

Three St. Tammany Parish teachers of the year, one each from elementary, middle/junior high and high school, were introduced Thursday to the School Board.

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Three men indicted in unrelated sex crimes

Three Slidell men were indicted Thursday by a St. Tammany Parish grand jury on separate rape and incest charges for attacks on girls ranging from 5 to 12 years old.

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Fire districts say rolling millages forward necessary

As fire districts across the parish wrestle over the issue of raising or lowering millage rates, they are caught between a rock and a hard place — either increase the millage rate and further anger taxpayers already saddled with increased property taxes, or roll back the millage and curtail all-important fire fighting and emergency medical services to residents.

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20-year-old arrested for car burglaries

A 20-year-old Mandeville man was arrested Thursday morning, 14 hours after he allegedly started a six-car, $5,000-robbery spree in Covington, police said.

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FD 1 board, chief compromise, but millage still rolled forward

The meeting of the Fire District 1 Board of Commissioners Thursday evening was a standing-room-only gathering as the board, Chief Larry Hess and concerned residents argued whether to roll the district’s share of property tax millage forward or back.

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