New Roads News

NEW ROADS -- The Pointe Coupee Parish School Board has suspended a school bus driver for six months without pay and stripped him of his tenure rights for leaving a 5-year-old student on his bus for several hours three months ago.

After more than two years of system improvements, Fidelity Communications is now offering a more robust digital TV lineup, more channels and faster Internet speeds in the New Roads, Louisiana market.

A vehicle flipped on I-10 just before the I-10/I-110 flipped on the icy roadway.

Parade organizers in New Roads said crowds for this year's Mardi Gras could go down as the lightest in history.

Freezing temperatures, combined with sleet and freezing rain that began at 6 a.m., had contributed to accidents and closed many roads, bridges and overpasses through the morning, but didn't stop parades in New Roads and Lafayette from rolling as scheduled.

Cold air has become well entrenched at the surface, locations from Gonzales east to the lakes and northward bottomed out below freezing as was expected.

Organizers with the two New Roads Mardi Gras parade groups said Monday their parades will roll on as scheduled despite a freeze warning from the National Weather Service.

Mayor Robert Myer and the City Council agreed Tuesday to meet with Pointe Coupee Parish police jurors who represent portions of the city of New Roads in an attempt to end the ongoing feud between the city and the parish which escalated recently over residential trash service.

The Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church on Sora Street was unpacking framed photos and photo albums when 9News recently visited.

Prosecutors re appealing a state District Court judge's Feb. 3 decision that overturned a New Roads businessman's conviction in a money laundering case.

The Pointe Coupee Parish Police Jury has rejected a request by New Roads that the parish share a portion of a 1-cent sales tax dedicated to residential trash service.