Tangipahoa

About 130 people were displaced, with 19 spending the night in a shelter, said Tangipahoa Parish spokesman Jeff McKneely.

Severe storms, tornadoes hammer Southeast 2011

Keith Bardwell of Tangipahoa Parish insists that he is not a racist, he's merely looking out for the well-being of the children that the couple might bear.

Boing Boing 2009

In the village of Tangipahoa, authorities used boats and pickups to evacuate a mobile home park after heavy rains caused a creek to overflow its banks, flooding about 20 to 30 homes.

Severe storms, tornadoes hammer Southeast 2011

AMITE — Former Hosanna Church pastor Louis D. Lamonica told a Tangipahoa Parish jury Friday that he falsely confessed to child rape because he thought it would be the only way to get his wife and children back.

Ex-Hosanna pastor: Confession forced 2008

“She convinced herself she was like Moses and Tangipahoa was coming out of Egypt,” Lamonica said, referring to the biblical story of Moses leading the Jews people out of slavery in Egypt.

Ex-Hosanna pastor: Confession forced 2008

AMITE — A Tangipahoa Parish jury convicted former Hosanna Church pastor Louis D. Lamonica of raping his two sons while both were boys under 11 years of age.

Louis Lamonica convicted of raping two sons 2008

Claiming that mixed-race children were not readily accepted by their parents' communities, Keith Bardwell, a white justice of the peace in Tangipahoa, Louisiana, a parish with a population of over 100,000, refused to issue a marriage license and preside over the wedding of Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay, both of Hammond, Louisiana.

Louisiana justice of the peace refuses to marry interracial couple gay person of color 2009

Can we really celebrate progress when in 1999 discredited NAZI racists like Duke are still winning entire parishes (Tangipahoa) against right wing GOP conservatives like David Vitter and David Treen?

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CALLEBS (voice-over): Hurtful because she never could have expected what she heard from Tangipahoa Parish Justice of the Peace, Keith Bardwell, when she called Bardwell's office a week ago to handle her marriage ceremony.

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Claiming that mixed-race children were not readily accepted by their parents' communities, Keith Bardwell, a white justice of the peace in Tangipahoa, Louisiana, a parish with a population of over 100,000, refused to issue a marriage license and preside over the wedding of Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay, both of Hammond, Louisiana.

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