Harvey News

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

Jefferson Parish grand jury indicted a Harvey man with second-degree murder Thursday, in the death of a man gunned down in a home's back yard.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand today announced the arrest of a Second District Patrol Division officer on a rape charge.

HARVEY, La. - Mindful that the suburban West Bank of New Orleans has regained its pre-Hurricane Katrina population and is primed for growth, the Army Corps of Engineers is launching a $1 billion effort to keep the next storm at bay.

A Harvey man who says he was wrongly beaten by Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies during a traffic stop in Marrero pleaded innocent Tuesday to a charge of resisting arrest by force.

Dignitaries and guests were on hand during a ceremony hosted by the Army Corps of Engineers on Friday at the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway West Closure Complex.

Next week, one lane in each direction will be closed on Lapalco Boulevard in Harvey, Jefferson Parish has announced.

Motorists on Manhattan Boulevard in Harvey can expect delays starting next week as a contractor replaces a quarter-mile-long section of concrete pavement.

Books that chronicle a day of scientific mishaps, the 1991 discovery of the oldest mummy in the Italian Alps, and a meticulously illustrated depiction of the Apollo 11 moon flight are among the finalists for the American Association for the Advancement of Science Prizes for Excellence in Science Books for children and young adults.

Authorities say a 14-year-old was shot in the leg early Sunday morning as he tried to break into a Metairie pawn shop.

A witness and a confession landed 18-year-old Christopher Lindsey behind bars charged with murder and facing life in prison.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help finding a teenage girl who apparently ran away from home with her infant child.

A federal appeals court has decided that a former Gretna police officer cannot be sued for using excessive force against a Harvey man killed during a traffic stop in 2005.

In addition to 87 school facilities and a handful of administrative offices, the Jefferson Parish public school district could own a handful other small parcels of land that had not been formally accounted for, located mainly in subdivisions scattered throughout the parish, according to a report unveiled last week.

NEW ORLEANS a ' The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $9 million contract to Buck Town Contractors & Co.

Several St. John the Baptist Parish contracts that are at the center of a federal conspiracy and bribery probe involving former Parish President Bill Hubbard will be reviewed by the state Legislative Auditor's office.

SUSAN POAG/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE West St. John no. 17 Kenneth Dabney weaves through West Jefferson players during a first quarter play in a football game between West Jefferson High School and West St.

MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Archbishop Shaw's Chris Current scores against John Ehret's Javian Baker in the second quarter Friday October 2, 2009 at West Jefferson High School in Harvey.

A leaking gas pipeline exploded in Marrero on Saturday near a $22 million apartment complex, leaving thousands of nearby homes without power and forcing firefighters to evacuate residents out of the complex for hours, according to officials.

A man badly beaten in June near a major St. Roch neighborhood intersection died at a nursing home Wednesday, and the New Orleans coroner has ruled his death the city's latest homicide, an official said Friday.