Gretna News

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.

A Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputy was booked with aggravated rape and abuse of office and fired today.

Gretna City Councilman Jonathan Bolar will get extra time to prepare a defense in his federal trial after his attorney asked for more time when two extra charges of wire fraud were brought against the councilman.

The Defense Department identified the eighth Fort Lewis soldier who was killed in one day last week in Afghanistan.

After getting a tip, Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputies and agents from the U.S. Marshal's Office arrested a Marrero man for an April murder, according to JP spokesman Col.

The Department of Defense has identified 901 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

Three Terrytown men were arrested after authorities say they ran a heroin smuggling operation through the mail, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

At least two of the 18 fallen soldiers honored Thursday by President Barack Obama were from Louisiana.

Aerial spraying to kill mosquitoes is scheduled Friday night on both sides of the Mississippi River in Jefferson Parish.

John Fortunato, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman. Deputies found Prentis Perry facedown with multiple gunshot wounds in front of 518 Diplomat St.

Weyer Street in Gretna is closed through Sunday, Jefferson Parish has announced.

Guest, employee taken to hospitals Monday, October 26, 2009 West Bank bureau About 200 guests had to be evacuated from a West Bank motel Sunday morning because of a clothes-dryer fire.

A Kenner man has been booked with vehicular homicide and driving while intoxicated after authorities say he hit an elderly Gretna man riding in a wheelchair on Monday night .

For the second time in five months, Gretna Councilman Jonathan Bolar stood before a federal judge and pleaded innocent.

A woman has been arrested on charges of luring a photographer to a Kenner motel room last year for a photo shoot, whereupon a friend posing as a police detective barged in and stole the victim's camera equipment.

The widow of a Gretna firefighter who was killed last year while on duty has sued the fire department and the city for allegedly causing his death by refusing to replace outdated equipment.

The unusually high Mississippi River has surrounded the stage of the new Gretna amphitheater, causing the fall concert series on Friday nights to be moved to another site in downtown Gretna Unusually high Mississippi River levels for this time of year have left Gretna's new amphitheater stage surrounded by water.