Marrero News

The issue led the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West to seek the help of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office to control the swelling population, using off-duty sharpshooter's, who would work four-to-five hours shifts.

A rendering of the $10.65 million animal shelter, planned for a location at Peters Road and Lapalco Boulevard.

New Orleans attorney Herbert Larson discusses his view of the roadblocks that the attorney general's office has placed in his client Damon Thibodeaux's attempts to have a judge order the state of Louisiana to financially compensate him for the 16 years he spent in prison based on what he says was a false confession to raping and killing 14-year-old ... (more)

The question of who owns the property in Louisiana's small claims courts is at the heart of a lawsuit targeting Jefferson Parish 's 2nd Justice Court in Marrero.

Businessman Michael O'Brien has announced his run for the Jefferson Parish Council's 2nd District on a billboard in Elmwood.

Puerto Rico's Caribe Hilton is sharing what it says is the original PiA a Colada, Puerto Rico's official drink.

Tour guide Lance Lacrosse was captured on video playing and feeding an alligator during a swamp tour in May. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating the video for possible violation of a parish ordinance prohibiting the feeding of alligators.

The suit seeks immediate repayment by Second District Justice of the Peace Patrick Hale DeJean, who serves a Westbank constituency from his office in Marrero.

The knock on the door of Quentella Johnson's home last week should have been 16-year-old Stefan Johnson coming home -- as promised -- in time for his doctor's appointment.

Relatives and friends of Stefan Johnson, 16, will hold a prayer vigil in honor of the murdered John Ehret High School student Tuesday night at Pleasant Palace, 909 Garden Road, Marrero.

Just days before they're expected to appear before a Jefferson Parish judge , attorneys for a former Marrero resident who spent 15 years on Death Row based on a confession that's since been deemed false continued Tuesday accusing the state of erecting unrealistic barriers in his attempt for compensation.

To receive input and learn about senior community needs, Jefferson Council on Aging will hold community meetings, one on July 16 at the Harahan Senior Center and July 23 at the Marrero Senior Center .

Cyrus Casby, then 19, is escorted in 2004 Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office detectives Jeffrey Rodrigue, left, and Lt.

Kerry Washington's wife, Cheryl, holds onto a large portrait of the family back in happier times.

A bolt of lightning accompanying a severe thunderstorm hits the West Bank beyond the Huey P. Long Bridge on Friday afternoon, July 11, 2014.

It's technology that is getting more popular by the day -- the use of drones. And police are beginning to use them to assist in investigations.

Agents says 45-year-old Jesse James Gainey, of Marrero, and 50-year-old Clayton Palmasano, of Gretna, were arrested Wednesday for allegedly removing the contents of crab traps, failing to mark crab traps and theft of crab traps.

OFFICIALS HAVE ARRESTED THE SUSPECTED SHOOTER.. IN THE MURDER OF A MARRERO TEENAGER..

Joharri Walker, 19, of Marrero, wanted for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Stefan Johnson, 16. Johnson, of Marrero, surrendered to Jefferson Parish authorities on Thursday afternoon.

Deputies found a 16-year-old black male with a gunshot wound lying in a driveway after getting a call of a shooting in the 1100 block of Martin Drive around 12:30 p.m. The victim, who lives on Marshall Drive, was brought to University Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival but emergency room doctors were then able to revive him.