Napoleonville News

Shreveport mayor Cedric Glover is back in Washington today, lobbying for struggling communities affected by the shutdown of automaker factories or pending changes for these companies, according to a city news release.

The House on Friday approved a chemical security bill that supporters say will better protect communities near chemical plants against terrorist attacks.

Louisiana members of Congress plan to meet Tuesday with FDA officials in hopes of persuading them to scrap a proposed ban on untreated Gulf of Mexico oysters during summer months.

An Ascension Parish grand jury has indicted a Napoleonville man and his wife in connection with the rape and molestation of a 10-year-old girl, prosecutors said Thursday.

JEANERETTE - The Gravois hull, manufactured here for more than two decades, is famous with saltwater fisherman all over.

A key House committee voted mostly along party lines Wednesday to approve a bill supporters say would better protect communities from terrorist attacks on chemical facilities.

With U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon vacating his seat next fall to run for higher office, politicos from all corners of the spectrum are beginning to line up to not only test the waters, but also officially declare.

NAPOLEONVILLE a ' Police Jury President Martin Triche said Wednesday the Louisiana Supreme Court denied writs Friday in a lawsuit filed against Assumption Parish and the state Department of Environmental Quality by a company looking to build a landfill.

A House subcommittee Wednesday cleared a comprehensive chemical security bill that would allow the Department of Homeland Security to impose new regulations on the nation's most vulnerable chemical plants.

Several law enforcement agencies are searching for a man who led police on a car chase after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death this morning in St.

A Lafourche Parish grand jury in Thibodaux indicted a former police officer on a single count of malfeasance in office Friday in connection with the arrest of two Assumption Parish sheriff's trusties who left the jail last year without supervision, prosecutors said.

Labadieville- Yesterday evening at approximately 7:30 PM, a Napoleonville man was killed in a single vehicle crash when his pickup truck went off the roadway ejecting the driver.

State Police are investigating a single-vehicle crash on LA 308 that left a Napoleonville man dead.

Investigations into separate cases of cruelty to a juvenile and sexual misconduct with a minor resulted in the arrests of three people, the Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

Three adults have been arrested and a fourth is wanted in three separate investigations involving juvenile victims.

Assumption Parish sheriff's deputies arrested two men in the theft of $2,250 worth of acetylene torch equipment and other items reported stolen from a local farmer, deputies said Tuesday.

As expected, Melancon, D-Napoleonville, enters the race as the underdog, with statewide name recognition of 48 percent, compared to Vitter's 86 percent.

A newly created panel trying to help Louisiana's ailing shrimp industry is considering ways to brand and market local shrimp and to get available federal aid to the fishermen.

Charlie Melancon may be the first major political candidate from Louisiana to announce a bid for office from his dining room table.

U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon may be the first major political candidate from Louisiana to announce a bid for office from his dining-room table.