Wayward Santa nearly arrested in Hammond
A heavy-set man, his face masked with shaving foam that made one victim describe him as Santa Claus, robbed this North Mississippi town’s only bank of $222. When the same man arrives in Hammond, Louisiana, more trouble begins.
Donna Bahm murder remains unsolved
Thirty-three years ago, January 23, 1988, the St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a call on the Tickfaw River. Around 2:30 that Saturday afternoon, swimmers discovered the body of Donna Lynn Bahm. The 31-year-old Amite attorney had gone missing two days earlier. The swimmers found under a bridge on Louisiana Highway 1045 near Hillsdale.
According to St. Helena Coroner Dr. L.E. Stringer, after striking her twice in the head with a tire iron and fracturing her skull, her murderer popped a pair of.22 caliber slugs into her chest. Afterward, her assailant used a 30-foot logging ...
State highways renamed to salute fallen officers
Friday, November 12 at 9 a.m., in a dedication ceremony at the Gordon A. Burgess Governmental Complex in Amite, the State of Louisiana honored Two Tangipahoa Parish deputies and another from Washington Parish by renaming state highways in honor of the fallen officers.
Louisiana child sex traffic worse than most admit
A multi-agency South Louisiana task force operation headed by the United States Marshal Service resulted in the arrest of 18 alleged human traffickers and saw fourteen missing children return home to their families. However, the problem of juvenile sex and labor traffic in Louisiana is far greater than most realize or are willing to admit.