Braithwaite News

St. Bernard officials break ground today Tuesday, June 30, 2009 St. Bernard bureau St.

HERE are the latest people to be banned from Mansfield's licensed premises in a crackdown on booze-fuelled trouble.

Nearly four years after the one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita left their parishes under water, officials in St.

He says the pistol fired by accident West Bank bureau A Venice teenager has been indicted by a Plaquemines Parish grand jury on a manslaughter charge in the April death of his girlfriend.

A Braithwaite man accused of kidnapping and raping a woman at gunpoint was arrested this morning after a six-hour standoff with Plaquemines Parish sheriff's deputies who had surrounded his home, authorities said.

Jade Marinovich was eight months pregnant when Hurricane Gustav overtopped and breached part of the back levee in Plaquemines Parish.

With the help of funding recently provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency , five Plaquemines Parish water pump stations are being rebuilt to comply with all applicable codes and standards to include ...

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state are holding six meetings to get public comments on the planning and construction of restoration projects in the Louisiana Coastal Area Plan.

The Greater New Orleans Foundation has given a grant to Plaquemines Parish to help fund a project to test the viability of growing blueberries and peaches in the parish.

It's a three part plan to restore the coastline and each phase could cut down storm surge by about five feet.

An unidentified man is dead after an early morning, single-car accident Sunday in Braithwaite, according to Trooper Joe Piglia.

The Louisiana State Police is investigating a fiery fatal single-vehicle crash in Plaquemines Parish.

On Sunday, January 4, 2009 shortly after midnight, Troop B investigated a single vehicle fatal crash in Braithwaite that claimed the life of an unidentified man.

The Army Corps of Engineers will hold a meeting tonight in Braithwaite to update St.