Jefferson News

The General Accountabilitiy Office says five major New Orleans-area hospitals and hospital systems hit hard by Hurricane Katrina had operating losses of nearly $387 million in 2005 through 2007.

Jefferson Parish Animal Shelters will be microchipping cats and dogs for FREE on Friday and Saturday.

A law enforcement task force headed by federal marshals netted more than 100 suspects wanted in southeast Louisiana during a June sweep, officials said Wednesday.

The LSU AgCenter is asking southeast Louisiana residents who have citrus trees to be on the lookout for a pest that can carry a disease that kills the trees.

Authorities are searching for two gunmen who kicked down the door of an Old Jefferson residence early Friday morning and shot a man in the legs after threatening to kill his children, according to a Jefferson ...

A survey conducted by The University of New Orleans shows public perception is that the quality of life in Jefferson and Orleans Parish is improving, but those polls reflect that residents have a gloomy outlook ...

For months, political insiders have speculated about the future political goals of New Orleans District C Councilman James Carter, a Democrat.

State Sen. Derrick Shepherd, left, enters the Hale Boggs Federal Courthouse in New Orleans with his lawyer in April.

In a move that has shocked some parents and led others to question the reasoning behind it, Gerard LeBlanc has announced he is leaving his post as the founding principal at Thomas Jefferson Senior High School ...

No Yes Indicted Second District Congressman William Jefferson will have no fewer than five challengers in his own party as he seeks his ninth term in office.

A sixth fellow Democrat signed up today to challenge U.S. Representative William Jefferson as he runs for a 10th term while fighting a federal bribery indictment.

The names of indicted Congressman William Jefferson and his sister, New Orleans tax assessor Betty Jefferson, have surfaced in the federal case against a Louisiana legislator.

Disasters always seem to be unpredictable. That maxim held true Wednesday as emergency corps got a late start in Jefferson Parish to a daylong hurricane evacuation drill that some politicians dubbed the largest ...

On the first morning of qualifying today, East Jefferson candidates started filing their official bids for public office in the Oct.

Two candidates have signed up to challenge embattled Congressman William Jefferson, as the New Orleans Democrat again runs for re-election under a cloud of federal bribery allegations.

New Orleans voters' satisfaction with life in their city has crept back up to near pre-Hurricane Katrina levels, but their approval of Mayor Ray Nagin has dropped, according to a poll released Tuesday by the ...

Today two more candidates are announcing they will run against indicted Congressman Bill Jefferson.

He had jumped into Lake Catherine East Jefferson bureau The body of a Metairie man was pulled from Lake Catherine on Sunday, a day after he disappeared while swimming in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in ...

Call it political irony: As Republicans embark on their long-shot attempt to recapture control of the U.S. Senate, their hopes depend in no small part on a Southerner named John Kennedy.

A judge has once again tightened Corey "C-Murder" Miller's house arrest rules, revoking the curfew she gave the rapper more than a year ago and confining him to his home, according to court records that provide ...