River Ridge News

At approximately 1:30 AM, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office received information concerning a subject shot in the 500 block of Richard Street in River Ridge.

A Kenner man was booked with attempted rape after allegedly charging into an apartment while armed and attacking a woman who'd rejected his advances.

BATON ROUGE - Shreveport Rep. Jane Smith cautioned House members Thursday about an atmosphere of distrust, sniping and splintering into factions that developed during this year's legislative session.

A Metairie man has been arrested on charges of breaking into four East Jefferson houses.

DERIDDER - A 24-year-old DeRidder man has been arrested in the beating of an 18-month-old child.

Shots rang out early this morning in River Ridge. When cops got there they found a 50-year-old man dead in the street not far from Jeff Highway and Williams Blvd.

Someone shot and killed the brother of Jefferson Parish Judge June Darensburg this morning in the 300 block of Providence Lane in River Ridge, less than 30 feet from the front door of the home he lived in, according to authorities and relatives.

RIVER RIDGE, La. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's found a man with a long history of criminal activity dead outside a River Ridge home early Friday morning.

A St. Tammany Parish lawmaker's attempts to crack down on retailers who sell pornographic or obscene books, movies and DVDs to minors fizzled Thursday when a House committee rejected his bill.

BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Lottery Corp. said nobody won the two major jackpots in the Louisiana Lotto and multistate Powerball drawings Wednesday night.

An offensive lineman from River Ridge, La., assumed the members of Tulane's football coaching staff he spotted in the crowd at one of his basketball games might have been talking about him.

A Louisiana woman has pleaded guilty to submitting false information about her academic record to gain admission to the LSU School of Dentistry.

Michael A. Williams, 18, 365 Second St., St. Rose, was booked with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia after deputies executed a search warrant at the home on May 15.

RIVER RIDGE, La. a ' More than 200 middle and high school students will be in the New Orleans area this week to do repair work on low-income houses.

Honor society taps River Ridge native Thursday, May 28, 2009 LSU's Paul M. Hebert Law Center will award degrees to 185 students today at 10:30 a.m. in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on the Baton Rouge campus.

The Harahan City Council unanimously passed a resolution Thursday asking for parish and state help to keep the green space at Colonial Golf & Country Club green.

A groom was arrested at his own wedding for disturbing the peace after his nephew violated the dress code with low-riding pants, Kenner police said.

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Kenner police believe they have broken up a ring responsible for a series of area auto burglaries.

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