Grosse Tete News

State Sens. Danny Martiny, R-Metairie, left, and Rob Marionneaux, D-Grosse Tete, look to Sen.

State Sens. Robert Adley, R-Benton, left, John Alairo, D-Westwego, Rob Marionneaux, D-Grosse Tete, and Ann Duplessis, D-New Orleans debate Monday a change to the state construction bill on the floor of the Senate.

A proposed constitutional amendment that would give East Baton Rouge and some other area parishes a greater share of state mineral revenues cleared the Louisiana Senate on Thursday.

The Iberville Parish School Board has voted 8 to 7 to close North Iberville High School when the school year ends on May 28.

A transmission tower failed near a Stick-Net deployment site in Grosse Tete, Louisiana, during Hurricane Gustav, despite a peak gust wind speed of only 67.8 mph.

State utility regulators are putting together some procedures to follow in replacing their longtime secretary, said state Public Service Commissioner Lambert Boissiere III, of New Orleans, on Friday.

Animal advocates say the treatment of a popular truck stop tiger needs to improve if the owner plans to keep it in Grosse Tete.

Louisiana Rep. Noble Ellington, D-Winnsboro, left, looks on Friday as Sen. Rob Marionneaux, D-Grosse Tete, points out to William Ankner, secretary of the state Department of Transportation and Development, that ...

It looks like a Grosse Tete businessman has won his fight to keep a live tiger as an attraction at his roadside truck stop.

A Grosse Tete truck stop owner's battle to continue keeping a tiger as a roadside attraction got a boost from the Iberville Parish Council.

Joe Fallas stares through the lens of his Nikon D90 camera, waiting for his subject, Tony, to strike a good pose.

Activists and a truck-stop owner are battling it out over the fate of Tony the Tiger, a roadside attraction in Grosse Tete, La.

Mayor Kip Holden and some of his top officials continue a "listening tour" of East Baton Rouge Parish with a 4 p.m. visit to the Martin Luther King Jr.

Joe Fallas stares through the lens of his Nikon D90 camera, waiting for his subject, Tony, to strike a good pose.

Faith, Hope and Love Worship Center is trying to live up to its name. The church at 4055 Choctaw Drive is hoping that reaching out in love will help bring restoration to people in the community.

The Iberville Parish Council agreed last week to consider a measure allowing a Grosse Tete truck stop owner to keep a Bengal tiger as a roadside attraction, but postponed hearing opposition from animal rights ...

Westbound traffic on Interstate 10 at Grosse Tete came to a standstill for three hours this morning when an eastbound tanker trucker lost control, entered the median and overturned.

Free Tony. In case you have never seen this tiger-held-hostage, he has been penned in a small concrete cell next to the gas pumps at exit 139 on Interstate 10 in Grosse Tete for the past eight years.

Five crashes kill one, tie up Interstate 10 Five traffic crashes on Interstate 10 eastbound between Grosse Tete and Port Allen Saturday afternoon left a teenage girl dead and snarled traffic on the highway for ...

One minor crash, wet conditions, and inattentive drivers led to four additional crashes and one death shortly after 12:30 p.m. today on Interstate 10 eastbound in Iberville Parish.