Kenner News

Police arrested a Montz man in connection with an accidental shooting that left a Laplace man dead, according to Kenner PD spokesman detective Brian McGregor.

Faced with declining sales tax revenues, the Kenner City Council is looking into other ways to fill the city's coffers.

Troop B- On November 5, 2009, Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit detectives arrested a Kenner man, Paul Austin , on charges of Possession of Stolen Things and Possession of a Motor Vehicle with an Altered VIN.

A 71-year-old Kenner man, who was aiming his BB gun at his neighbor's cats, hit his next-door neighbor in the foot instead, Kenner police said.

A driver stopped for not wearing her seat belt and her passenger were both arrested after Kenner police discovered the meat-company truck she was driving and the freezer full of steaks had been reported stolen from Missouri, according to Kenner police.

In Kenner's District 1, a minority-majority seat that stretches from the Victorian homes of Rivertown through the Susan Park neighborhood to Loyola Drive's Lincoln Manor, a closely fought contest to succeed Marc Johnson now moves to a runoff.

Voodoo Music Experience City Park. Huge music festival with eight stages, more than 150 bands, including headliners Kiss, Eminem, Widespread Panic and The Flaming Lips, food booths, interactive games and crafts, 10 a.m.-10 today-Sun. Tickets are $75, $180 for a three-day pass, through Ticketmaster.

Former Kenner Chief Administrative Officer Cedric Floyd may proceed with his civil rights lawsuit against two Kenner police officers who were involved in his 2005 arrest on a malfeasance charge , after Katrina relief supplies were discovered at his home, a federal court ruled this week.

NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals court has revived some of the claims in a lawsuit that a former Kenner city official filed after he was arrested for allegedly misappropriating relief supplies in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.

Developers of the former Redwood Apartments site in Kenner are moving to turn the 15-acre vacant tract into a "continuing care retirement community." Eliot Kamenitz / The Times-Picayune The vacant site of the former Redwood Apartments in Kenner could become a 'retirement community.' It could include independent and assisted living units plus senior ...

A New Orleans man who was caught slipping DVDs into his son's diaper bag at a Kenner Wal-Mart abandoned the toddler in the parking lot when police tried to arrest him, authorities said.

New Orleans Police have arrested four people, including two 16-year-olds, for a murder Monday afternoon near the campus of McDonogh 35 High School.

New Orleans police arrested four people accused in the Monday afternoon murder of a 20-year-old New Orleans man in the 7th Ward.

The 74-year-old Kenner restaurateur accused of setting fire to a competitor's eatery is out of jail on bond.

It has been more than two years since two adult video store employees were arrested on suspicion of setting fire to another adult video store, but the Jefferson Parish district attorney's office is still deciding whether to charge the men.

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.

A new salary study says one third of Kenner's municipal employees are underpaid, but Mayor Ed Muniz said he won't spend the $238,324 it would cost to raise the pay to the recommended minimum.

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 .

In Kenner, police say they don't know what exactly motivated a suspected arsonist, but they do have their suspect: a business competitor.

Kenner code inspectors swept seven blocks of four-unit apartment buildings in the Greenlawn Terrace and Beachview Heights subdivisions, issuing 68 citations, officials said today.