Marrero News

Brittany Minder was sent home from the 2013 Central Kitsap High School prom in Silverdale, Washington, because her dress did not cover her cleavage.

Timmie Reed, 36, of Marrero, was sentenced Wednesday to 90 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in the Feb. 12, 2013, death of 3-year-old Desmond Brown, and the attempted murder of his mother Lakisha Brown.

A Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputy directs traffic after the Lapalco Bridge over the Harvey Canal broke down midday Tuesday, snarling traffic.

So the City Council votes to suspend the anti-American notion it can dictate where someone lives, and former Mayor Marc Morial wades in with criticism.

The numbers are in, and it's official: Lafayette missed Dairy Queen when it was gone.

The body of a woman who washed up early Thursday at a marine terminal in Convent has been identified as a 42-year-old Denham Springs woman who jumped off one of the Mississippi River bridges early Tuesday in West Baton Rouge Parish.

Mount Carmel Academy has announced its West Bank honor roll for the third quarter of the 2013-14 school year.

"Part of me's saying there's much ado about nothing. But another part of me, when I see on the label 'BuzzBar,' that kind of gives me some concern," state Rep. Patrick Connick, R-Marrero, said.

"Part of me says much to do about nothing. The other part of me sees the word 'buzz' on it," said state Rep. Patrick Connick, R-Marrero.

Larry McClure, 33, of Marrero, was convicted Thursday of attempted second-degree murder and felon in possession of a firearm, for shooting a man six times in Harvey four years ago.

Terrence Payne, 24, of Gretna, was convicted late Wednesday , of forcible rape and attempted manslaughter.

Louisiana needs to do better when it comes to inspecting and fixing structurally deficient bridges -- that's the word in a new report released by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office.

Watching last year as Jefferson Parish firefighters fought a blaze that destroyed a Dollar General store in Marrero , Frederick Clark heroically boasted to a local television news reporter that he searched the burning building in warning customers to flee.

GRETNA, La. On Tuesday night, dozens of people gathered to light 43 candles. Each represented a prayer for the 43 children lost to child abuse or neglect in Louisiana in the fiscal year 2013, which ran from June 2012 through July 2013.

Smoking in your car? Lawmakers want you to use your ashtray, not the highway to dispose of those cigarette butts.

Cyrus Casby, then 19, is escorted in 2004 by Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Sgt.

Tossing your cigarette butts on the ground or out your car window could subject you to a fine and community service, under a bill passed by the Louisiana House on Monday, April 7, 2014.

Councilman Milton Crosby was guest speaker at a recent Gretna Historical Society meeting, where he talked about education for black children in Gretna.

Perino's Boiling Pot in Harvey - not to be confused with Sam Perino's Seafood & Deli in Marrero, which has the same owner - begins with a scrappy bar that leads to a room filled with tables big enough to hold entire softball teams.

A suspected shoplifter's love of the comic book character Wolverine just may have been his undoing.