New Sarpy News

New Sarpy residents who say their community was unfairly shrunk during the redrawing of community boundaries in 2000 will have a chance to make their case before the St.

Major Mackie, 47, was back in jail Thurday, nearly a week after he allegedly threatened to eat his girlfriend and her grandchildren.

Kenneth Gravois, 51, 221 Park Ave, New Sarpy, was booked with DWI and reckless driving May 16.

A New Sarpy woman accused of burying her newborn in her parents' backyard last year pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday.

A 25-year-old woman indicted last year and charged with burying her newborn baby behind her parent's home in New Sarpy is mentally competent to stand trial for those charges, two doctors testified in court this morning in state district court in Hahnville.

Alphonse Brown, 58, 932 E. Lawson St., New Sarpy, was booked with possession of Diazepam, a controlled dangerous substance, after he was stopped for suspicious activity March 20.

Students and teachers soon will see whether months of extra effort make a difference in scores on the annual state standardized tests.

With St. Charles Parish government office buildings crammed to the rafters, the completion of the parish's new East Regional Library building in late 2010 will give parish workers some welcome breathing room.

St. Charles Parish will launch a survey of residents in March to find out whether they want recycling and what they are willing to pay for it.

A group of New Sarpy residents asked the St. Charles Parish Council to restore the community's pre-2000 boundaries, doubling its size.

St. Charles Parish officials say they hope to begin running the second of two waterline crossings under the Mississippi River in early March.

Saying that it's past time to consolidate his office's scattered operations, St.

HAHNVILLE Authorities in St. Charles said a routine traffic stop along West Harding Street in New Sarpy netted a man wanted in connection with the burglary of a Destrehan convenience store.

St. Charles Parish officials say they could do little to stop widespread street flooding during Saturday's torrential rainstorm that dumped as much as eight inches of rain on the parish in about two hours.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for northern Jefferson, Orleans and St.

Given the millions that St. Charles Parish has spent on drainage over the years, Public Works Director Sam Scholle had a surprising revelation for the Parish Council on Monday.

Two major drainage engineering contracts will be considered Monday by the St. Charles Parish Council.

St. Charles Parish's water supply got a little more secure Tuesday as the parish's two water systems were linked for the first time.

The Dunleith Canal in Destrehan has been nibbling at the backyards of homes along its west bank for years, despite numerous attempts at stabilization.

When St. Charles Parish sheriff's deputies executed a search warrant at Louis Boyd Jr.'s New Sarpy home last month, they say they found crack cocaine, hungry pit bulls and five girls' bicycles.