Old Jefferson News

Authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with a rash of vehicle burglaries in Old Jefferson.

Visitors look around the Camp Parapet gunpowder magazine in 2008. Visitors may see inside of a Civil War gunpowder magazine when the Jefferson Parish Historical Commission hosts its third annual Camp Parapet Day on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the the end of Arlington Street , to the east of Causeway Boulevard near River Road in Old ...

Seven-year-old Paige DeJean called her daddy every Sunday to keep him updated about school, her friends and just how much she has missed him since he deployed to the Middle East in June with his Louisiana Army National Guard unit.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has identified the seven-year-old girl shot and killed by a stray bullet in her River Ridge apartment as Paige Dejean.

Mike Conlin, right, and Gary Augustine set out in motorhome from Winnepeg for the 1,400-mile journey down the original route of Jefferson Highway to New Orleans The Metairie resident who grew up in Canada and works as a professional map maker noticed that few people today seem aware of the highway's significance.

When Carol Orr James sought to rebuild her storm-damaged Old Jefferson house, the effort revealed that her property and others on her street are zoned for light industrial uses, even though houses stand on them.

A pharmacy chain wants to redevelop the site of a fast food restaurant at Jefferson Highway and Deckbar Avenue that closed for Hurricane Katrina and never reopened.

A tip led investigators to a Metairie home Tuesday afternoon where they found the man suspected of hitting Jefferson Parish Sheriff's detective Donald Clogher and dragging him several feet through a parking lot.

Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputy Donald Clogher was recuperating Thursday after being dragged across a parking lot while clinging to a fleeing vehicle -- for the second time in his career.

When Patrick Taylor Academy of Science & Technology announced that juniors and seniors would be spending two afternoons a week at the University of New Orleans as part of a dual enrollment program, they were delighted and nervous at the same time.

An Old Jefferson man who pleaded guilty to possessing 868 sexually explicit images of children in June will spend the next five years in federal prison.

Jefferson Parish will conduct aerial spraying for mosquitos on Sunday from 7:20 p.m. until 9:45 p.m., weather permitting.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is searching for a woman who shot another woman outside of a Shrewsbury night club early Sunday morning.

The National Association of Parliamentarians will host a free workshop on the practical use of Robert's Rules of Order on Saturday in Old Jefferson.

State Police have identified a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a truck as he ran across Jefferson Highway in Old Jefferson.

State Police have identified a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a truck as he ran across Jefferson Highway in Old Jefferson.

State Police have identified a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a truck as he ran across Jefferson Highway in Old Jefferson.

A man was killed by a truck Wednesday afternoon as he ran across Jefferson Highway in Old Jefferson.

An unidentified man was killed by a truck Wednesday afternoon as he ran across Jefferson Highway in Old Jefferson.

The elevated portion of Causeway Boulevard between Airline Drive and Jefferson Highway has reopened.