Gonzales News

Baton Rouge police arrested a 37-year-old man Thursday accused of sexually assaulting a young girl on April 1. Police booked Otis Daniels, 2888 Dougherty Drive, Baton Rouge, into Parish Prison on one count of simple rape, prison records show.

Tim Vessel's first several months as a Gonzales councilman have gotten off to a start the mayor describes as "a black eye on the city." Vessel unseated longtime incumbent Joe Waguespack, who spent 28 years on the Gonzales City Council, in November's election, but Vessel ran into problems with city ordinances even before being sworn into office.

Ascension Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a man on Wednesday accused of beating one of his dogs to death and dumping the animal's taped-up body in an open field, the Sheriff's Office reported.

Ascension Parish government officials, already trying to pull together the early pieces of a parishwide sewer system, also have been investigating the possibility of getting into the natural gas and water business.

A Gonzales couple was arrested Friday on a long list of drug-related charges. Kenneth "Killer" Wagner, 23, and Povial Ward, 22, were taken into custody after a search warrant was executed at their home on S. Sammy St.

Expansion of a key pump station that drains a large swath of East Ascension is getting the final touches and will be ready when hurricane season starts June 1. Parish officials tell The Advocate the $13.3 million expansion is adding a sixth pump and the bay for a future seventh pump to the massive Marvin J. Braud Pumping Station in the McElroy ... (more)

Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAU -- East Ascension High School seniors leap en masse into the Ascension Hospital pond across from campus during the annual pond jump in Gonzales on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.

Ascension, one of the fastest-growing parishes in the state, is continuing a 20-year population boom fueled by good schools and industrial expansion.

Expansion of a key pump station that drains a large swath of East Ascension is getting the final touches and will be ready when hurricane season starts June 1, Ascension Parish officials said.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON --State Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge, is one of several legislators and other officials who say the key issue in the voucher debate is how Gov.

The Gonzales Planning and Zoning Commission has been asked to rezone more than 340 acres along Louisiana Highway 44 and Interstate 10 that could become a major development.

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Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAU -- David Mitchell, Darlene Denstorff, and Bret McCormick, from left, at The Advocate's River Parishes Bureau in Gonzales on Thursday, Jan.

Charles Hopp, 32, Brittany Carlson, 23, and Vanessa Via, 25, all face multiple drug charges.

A classic car enthusiast, Godchaux said he lost two vintage cars due to flooding from 2005's Hurricane Katrina.

The state district judge presiding over the trials of five men implicated in the home-invasion killings of a Gonzales-area couple and their adult son ordered on Wednesday that jury selection for the first of the trials trial take place in Lafayette Parish.

Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAU -- East Ascension High School seniors leap en masse into the Ascension Hospital pond across from campus during the annual pond jump in Gonzales on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.

Bernadette Mills says the pedals moving on an old treadle sewing machine is the sound she associates with her mom: Says Karen, "The server informed him that you were a frequent diner and ate everything on the menu - but not on the same day.

The Gonzales Planning and Zoning Commission is considering a request to rezone a 340-plus-acre parcel of land along La.

A school bus carrying nearly two dozen students from G.W. Carver Primary School in Gonzales was involved in an accident Monday afternoon, but no injuries were reported.