Metairie News

Authorities in Jefferson Parish said they are investigating an early-morning double shooting in Metairie.

The Uncle Sam Jam in Metairie gets the 4th of July weekend underway this evening.

Three New Orleans men have been indicted by a Jefferson Parish grand jury in connection with a February killing, and two attempted murders that happened just hours after the fatal shooting.

WDSU announced today that Scott Walker will join its staff of broadcast journalists late this summer, returning home after serving as a newscast anchor at television stations across the Gulf South.

The Louisiana Supreme Court today announced that Metairie lawyer Bill Hall and Carol Leblanc, administrative assistant for the North Lafourche Conservation, Levee & Drainage District, have been appointed to the state Judiciary Commission.

A 17-year-old who was shot in the parking lot of a LaPlace club June 13 died Monday, and St.

Affordable rental housing is on the upswing in New Orleans, and apartment developers hope they can find enough tenants to fill the new offerings.

Three people accused of burglarizing cars in Metairie have been newly booked with five car burglaries in Kenner, police said today.

A woman and two teenagers arrested last week for an East Jefferson vehicle burglary spree picked up new charges after investigators discovered that the truck they drove to the detective's bureau after being summoned for questioning was stolen, according to Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrest reports.

OPELOUSAS - Arthur Lee Henry, a custodian at T.H. Harris Technical College in Opelousas, will be honored as one of three of the state's 'Citizen Heroes' Thursday at a banquet in Metairie.

Contract workers Carlos Johnson, left, and Jody New remove part of Sylvia Ziegler's fence along the Metairie side of the 17th Street Canal.

Ciara Craig, who's charged in the death of her newborn baby, was kicked by another inmate and needed stitches to her forehead, her lawyer said Tuesday, June 23, 2009 A Metairie woman who is accused of leaving her newborn to die in Lake Pontchartrain was injured by another inmate in Jefferson Parish Correctional Center last week.

The Louisiana House has blocked a proposal to postpone a tax break for three years.

It's clear now that Louisiana House members don't want to increase a certain sin tax.

A 5-year-old dog named Bear who escaped from a Louisiana yard in 2007 turned up in Florida - and was reunited with his owner.

Someone shot and killed the brother of Jefferson Parish Judge June Darensburg this morning in the 300 block of Providence Lane in River Ridge, less than 30 feet from the front door of the home he lived in, according to authorities and relatives.

Police say a father and son from Metairie allegedly broke into a Baton Rouge home and threatened to kill an attempted rape victim unless she dropped her case against one of the men.

A man is dead and a woman is in critical condition after their pick-up flipped over the guard rail on an elevated portion of Interstate 10 near the New Orleans-Metairie line early this morning, according to New Orleans Police Department spokesman Garry Flot.

Wal-Mart is moving its Metairie store on Veterans Memorial Boulevard to a new location.

A 17-year-old boy from Kenner remained in intensive care Monday after being shot in the head outside a LaPlace nightclub early Saturday, a spokesman for the St.