Gretna News

A Jefferson Parish correctional officer has been arrested and booked with theft after authorities say she stole bond money while working in the intake center at the jail.

A man whose body was found floating in the Mississippi River in Gretna on Tuesday drowned shortly after falling into the water at a towboat facility in Uptown New Orleans nearly three weeks ago, authorities said Wednesday.

After 20 years in the works, a $10 million project to connect downtown Gretna to the Crescent City Connection has moved into the final planning stages for a venture that officials hope will remove industrial truck traffic from narrow residential streets.

William Patterson of Terrytown never denied killing Tyronne Temple more than four years ago.

A judge has awarded custody of the 3-year-old daughter of a slain Fargo dentist to her uncle and his wife.

New Orleans Harbor Police officers pulled a body out of the Mississippi River in Gretna this morning, according to authorities.

A Gretna woman was killed while walking down the street last week and her family is still trying to get information on exactly what led to her death.

Workers in Gretna have the go-ahead to start construction on a new $1.75 million facility to house a nonprofit organization that works with the disabled.

Jefferson Transit has scheduled public hearings next week on proposed fare increases for the public buses in Jefferson Parish.

Louisiana residents had mixed reactions about former Congressman William Jefferson's 13-year sentence handed down Friday in federal court in Virginia.

The Times-Picayune makes the following recommendations for Saturday's ballot. Mr. Dawson, a physician and member of the state Board of Medical Examiners, possesses the education, professional resume and perspective needed to represent this district.

With three property taxes set to expire at the end of the year, Harvey Volunteer Fire Company No.

A grassy lot at the Gretna riverfront may become the site of a five-story condominium complex that developers may break ground for as early as January.

Federal prosecutors allege a Louisiana woman and a Kentucky man embezzled nearly $13 million from a Gretna oil company.

The limited number of municipal court dates, and a lack of dedicated courtrooms and ability to process the cases usually results in a line that trails out of Gretna City Hall and into the street, as was photographed last month.

For most of us, high school graduation is a happy time, but what if your diploma wasn't worth what you thought? The WDSU Problem Solvers have been getting complaints from students who say that's exactly what they've discovered.

Members of the Patriot Guard Riders, a national organization of 170,000 members, salute the casket of Army Pfc.

Joan Benge, a judge on the 24th Judicial District Court bench since 2001, was removed from office today by the state Supreme Court, which found she violated judicial ethics and the state constitution as a rookie jurist in connection with the federal investigation of courthouse corruption, known as Wrinkled Robe.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand says a two-year deputy has been booked with aggravated rape and abuse of office, and has been fired.

A federal appeals court has reinstated a Metairie man's conviction for a 1999 crime spree in east Jefferson, ruling that a federal judge erred in finding the man's leg shackles violated his right to act as his own attorney during his trial.