Old Jefferson News

Jefferson Parish Planning Director Ed Durabb said proposed rezonings in Metairie will correct rezoning inconsistencies from the 1960s.

Derek LeBlanc used to say that a stint in Orleans Parish Prison saved his life. During the two-year stay, which ended in January, the 29-year-old earned his high school diploma.

Jefferson Parish authorities are investigating an early morning shooting in Old Jefferson that left one man dead and another wounded.

Tim Whitmer , chief administrative officer for Jefferson Parish government since 1998, received a lifetime achievement award from the Bureau of Governmental Research last week.

Three New Orleans men were indicted by a Jefferson Parish grand jury this morning with a February homicide and two attempted murders that happened in Old Jefferson hours after a shooting in Mid City.

Figuring the gun was empty, a clerk at a Metairie convenience store stripped a revolver from a robber's hands and chased him away.

Friends and family of a Metairie man killed in a double shooting in Old Jefferson expressed shock Thursday when authorities blamed it on a drug deal gone bad.

About 200 people turned out Thursday night for a town hall meeting on rearranging grades at four Jefferson Parish public schools, a plan enmeshed with issues of finances, facility shortcomings, dwindling enrollment in some schools, waiting lists in others and strong emotions about the cultures and traditions of the different campuses.

Since early April, seniors at Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy have been immersed in special activities, from senior prom and senior skip day to senior picnic and senior class carnival.

The Jefferson Parish Council on Wednesday approved sweeping rezonings in Old Jefferson and Old Metairie where the land classifications had fallen out of alignment with the existing neighborhoods.

Jefferson Parish public schools Superintendent Diane Roussel has appointed Jeffery Helmstetter as her acting regional supervisor for east bank schools.

Faced with the possibility of having to triple the parking capacity at Haynes Academy for Advanced Studies, the Jefferson Parish School Board is revisiting the idea of moving part of the Old Metairie school to another campus.

Riverdale Middle School will host an open house Monday to introduce prospective students and their parents to the Old Jefferson school's International Baccalaureate program.

A pair of Metairie brothers charged almost two years ago with an Old Jefferson home invasion during an attempt to steal 15 pounds of marijuana now face charges of aggravated kidnapping, according to an indictment prosecutors unsealed this week.

A request to rezone a Metairie house as an office has prompted Councilman Elton Lagasse to take a broader view of the entire Central Avenue corridor from Jefferson Highway to Airline Drive, which he says is badly in need of revitalization.

Jefferson Parish planners propose to reclassify hundreds of properties in three pockets of Old Metairie where the land is dominated by single-family houses, but the zoning allows doubles.

An Arabi man was arrested in the Valentine's Day rape of an acquaintance in Old Jefferson, according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrest report.

Riverdale High School senior Rebecca Gaffney hugs her producer, blues guitarist Cranston Clements, at a performance Wednesday at the Old Jefferson school.

The Coolidge Street corridor north of Jefferson Highway offers one of the most disparate developments possible on a single street: Houses mingle with light-industrial businesses.

There's nothing like a debate over assault weapons to get the Louisiana Legislature fired up.