Willie Swett

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Alex Lubben |Willie Swett

The head of a Mandeville-area psychiatric hospital said that hospital personnel acted properly to report an incident this week in which the facility's former medical director is accused of striking a 14-year-old patient. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office arrested Dr. Garrick Klaybor Wednesday evening and booked him on a count of cruelty to the infirmed, the Sheriff's Office said.

2 months ago | nola.com | Andrew Canulette |Willie Swett

After what meteorologists billed as a 100-year storm dumped as much as 8 inches of snow in St. Tammany Parish on Jan. 21, residents still were talking about the weather phenomenon three days later, as they pulled tarps off their plants, unwrapped exposed pipes and surveyed the wet mess left behind as the final pockets of powder finally melted.

Jan 21, 2025 | nola.com | Mark Ballard |Willie Swett |Alex Lubben

WASHINGTON – Within a few hours of being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed pardons for about 1,500 people involved in the U.S. Capitol riot four years ago on January 6 and commuted the sentences of 14 others. Sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office on Monday night, Trump fulfilled campaign promises to relieve the protestors of any lingering legal consequences from storming the U.S. Capitol in hopes of stopping the official tally of electoral votes to make Joe Biden president.

Jan 16, 2025 | nola.com | Willie Swett

The president of a private utility company that provides water to thousands of residents in St. Tammany Parish defended his company's work at a tense community meeting in Slidell Tuesday night. The Missouri-based company, Central States Water Resources, rehabilitates failing private water and wastewater systems around the country, including in St. Tammany, where there is a proliferation of water and sewerage systems owned by private companies.

Jan 13, 2025 | nola.com | Willie Swett

St. Tammany Parish deputies traced a school shooting threat via text message to an 11-year-old boy in the Mandeville area, the Sheriff's Office said Monday. The student, who attends a private school in the Mandeville area, was issued a court summons for "Terrorizing," the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office said Monday in a news release. He was released to a parent on the agreement that he would appear in court.