Marrero News

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.

Despite being pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital, authorities say doctors managed to revive an16-year-old boy who was shot and wounded in Marrero on Tuesday .

Karaaz Johnson, 9, of Archbishop Shaw Summer Camp, competes in the sponge relay during the Summer Camp Bosco Battle at Archbishop Shaw High School in Marrero Tuesday, July 8, 2014.

A welder works at the site of a floodwall under construction in Marrero. This week, educators will train to teach welding and other trades under State Superintendent John White's revamped career-education plan.

Merlynn Kellup, 38, of Harvey, was arrested and booked with cruelty to a juvenile after a 10-year-old relative was injured while shooting fireworks, unsupervised, at her apartment, authorities said.

New Orleans police identified Justin Odom, 20, as a 'person of interest' in the June 29 Bourbon Street shootings.

Jefferson Parish police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred around 10 p.m. Saturday night at a Marrero Dollar General.

The 21-year-old who died after being shot on Bourbon Street over the weekend was a sunny, hardworking woman who kept in touch for years with the school where she got her high school equivalency diploma, an official said.

New Orleans homicide detectives on Wednesday joined the investigation into Sunday's mass shooting on Bourbon Street after one victim died from her wounds.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office detectives arrested two women and a teenager accused in a hair extension theft-turned-carjacking.

Antoine Doyle, 29, 3745 Glenoak Drive, Harvey; Linston Armand, 54, 1125 Martin St., Marrero; and Kendall Smith, 28, 937 Beechgrove Blvd., Bridge City, were arrested at Stumpf Boulevard and West Bank Expressway in Gretna and booked with possession of heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Taking offense at comments made by attorneys for a former Death Row inmate from Marrero , the Louisiana attorney general's office has launched into Damon Thibodeaux 's request for compensation for his wrongful imprisonment.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office SWAT team was deployed to a residence in the 5800 block of St. John Avenue in Marrero on Monday .

Immaculate Conception Summer Camp at Academy of Our Lady in Marrero recently presented their version of the Disney musical "Frozen.'