Paradis News

Fourth-grade students at Lake Pontchartrain Elementary School raise their hands to answer math questions Thursday.

The St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office is looking for a second suspect in the armed robbery of two Paradis men in their home last week.

MANY a year ago my AMBLIN' WITH ABE column in the River Parishes Guide, Paradis, LA, carried the warning that handling baby turtles could result in kids catching salmonella.

"I believe it," said Sterling Constant, 58, who has been a waiter at the famous French Quarter restaurant for 42 years.

Plans for a new St. Charles Parish library in Paradis are now posted on the library system's Web site, and the Library Board has set a meeting Thursday to approve the layout.

St. Charles Parish voters will decide whether to renew property taxes supporting medical services, the parish's nine volunteer fire departments and road construction in an Oct.

Deputies arrested three lounge patrons and are looking for a fourth in the armed robbery and beating of a bar assistant manager at midnight Tuesday after he called for closing time, the Lafourche Sheriff's Office reported.

BRETT DUKE / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE R.J. Vial Elementary School fifth grader Bailey Melancon put her school supplies away Thursday, August 13, 2009 on the first day of school in Paradis.

Thomas L. Clark IV, 20, 122 Champagne Drive, Lot 24, Hahnville, was booked July 16 with simple burglary in connection with the burglary of a vehicle in Paradis.

A Harvey man who caused an accident that killed a Paradis woman and sent 30 high school students to the hospital in January has pleaded guilty to charges that could get him a 10-year sentence.

State middle school teacher of the year Stacy Harkreader Neighbors believes learning is as important for teachers as it is for students.

St. Charles Parish's water meter readers sometimes go into hard-to-reach places, including industrial plants with beefed-up security and scattered houses on big lots.

Cedrick Haynes led police on chase, police say. A New Orleans man led State Police and St.

Residents who live along U.S. 90 in St. Charles Parish will have a more reliable water supply once a project to replace a 1.6-mile-long iron pipe with a wider plastic one is completed.

The St. Charles Parish School Board on Wednesday voted to donate a 1.8-acre tract in Paradis to the St.

A $254,000 St. Charles Parish subsidy to the Sunset Drainage District could be in jeopardy after a Parish Council vote Monday.

A Des Allemands couple has filed a recall petition against St. Charles Parish Councilman Paul Hogan.

Three railroad crossings along Old Spanish Trail in Paradis will close betwen 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. on different days beginning Tuesday as Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad performs track maintainance.

The latest plot twist in the saga of a new Paradis library has sent the St. Charles Parish Council back to the drawing board on a decision on whether to buy a building or build one.

St. Charles Parish Councilman Paul Hogan continues to press for the construction of a new library in Paradis by requesting that the Library Board move up its tax renewal to this year.