An organization with one heartfelt mission — to provide stability to at-risk youth in St. Tammany Parish — recently appointed a new executive director to lead that effort. To do it, Debbie Thompson ...

Jayce Sanchez was only 14 years old when his mother kicked him out of the house and told him to live in the family’s backyard shed in Lacombe. On one side of the shed, a chicken coop was set up amid ...