Lawmen sweep parish for fugitives
In Hammond and Tangipahoa Parish a wide roundup dubbed Operation Clean Sweep netted 18 fugitives among over 200 lawmen. Deputies arrested suspects in Hammond Loranger Ponchatoula Independence and Ponchatoula on charges including bench warrants non support theft and marijuana distribution.
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Louisiana
Hammond
Tangipahoa Parish
Chuck Reed
Kenneth Johnson
Independence
Joseph “Ronney” Brown
Ponchatoula
Willie Ray Carter
Tangipahoa
Jerry Raiford
Gov
City council clerk arrested in scam
The Hammond city council clerk and three other women were arrested after police shut down a suspected merchandise return scam at a Hammond department store. Lanita Earnest Elaine Carter Camelia Carter Fields and Dana Johnson were booked on one count each.
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Hammond
Tangipahoa
Lanita Earnest
Campo Ave
Elaine Carter
Live Oak
Camelia Carter
Quick Blvd
Dana Johnson
Magnet makers pull off 1st working batch near Chicago
General Dynamics magnet team demonstrated a working display for SSC dipole magnets in Batavia Illinois near Chicago. The test marks progress toward producing 8 600 magnets for the 54 mile Texas tunnel and the turn of the century project rollout amid job growth and facility expansion in Hammond Indiana and surrounding sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
General Dynamics
Roy Schwitters
SSC Lab
Texas
Hammond
Schwitters
Dallas
Nature
Lee Patterson
Louisiana
Battavia
Ill
Fermi National Laboratory
SSC
Westinghouse Electric
Round Rock
Fermi
Westinghouse
Upton
N.Y
San Diego
Calif
General Dynamics Space Systems Division
Richard L. Neal
NEA
SLU computer wrongly changed grades for 123 students
Officials fixed a malfunctioning Southeastern Louisiana University OP-Scan computer that altered about 123 grades from C to D last semester. The error occurred over several hours when sheets were read and corrected once discovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeastern Louisiana University
Janet Busekist
Busckist
Busekist
Kentwood Water owners hit by anti foreign ownership rhetoric
In New Orleans competitors press claims against Kentwood Spring Water’s Japanese owners Suntory, noting customer cancellations. Kentwood executives stress homegrown American staff of 500 plus, insisting no Japanese workers and no ownership changes. Local ads tout “Louisiana’s Largest Locally Owned Bottled Water Company” and “100% American Owned.”
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New Orleans
Kentwood Spring
Kentwood
Brass
Suntory
Roohi
Louisiana
Yellow Pages
Dixie Springs Water
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Leon Cousain
Theresa Lynn Monteleon
John Leiber Jr
Edwin Edwards
Richard Jeyoub
Will Louviere
Dick Neal
Neal
Vandenberg Air Force Base
California
Space Systems
Vandenberg
US Air Force
National Management Association
The
Air Force Association
Santa Maria Museum of Flight
Chamber of Commerce
Linda
Layne Water Supply
Donald O'Brien
Travis Parent
Hammond Central
Jackson, Miss
Lion's Roar
SLU
Kentwood Water
U.S
Bill
Hanen Sen Pe
Edirtomal
Casa Oe
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