Terrytown News

Jefferson Parish detectives are trying to solve a string of armed robberies in Terrytown in which Hispanics were the target.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating five armed robberies in the Faith Place/South Forest Lawn area of Terrytown during a one-week span between June 30 and July 6. According to the JPSO, the incidents all occurred in the 1900 blocks of Faith Place and South Forest Lawn.

The blogs Tasered While Black and Electrocuted While Black are reporting on how Louisiana Police have shocked a black mother with a torture device .

The scene in Baton Rouge isn't quite fading to black yet, but as you read this sentence the credits are beginning to roll on the 2009 legislative session.

Legislation opening more governor's office records to public scrutiny, but temporarily shielding some budget-related documents that are now public, was approved 62-41 Monday by the House amid arguments over whether the bill, backed by Gov.

A battle intensified on Monday between LSU and Tulane University over a new teaching hospital in New Orleans, after the LSU System Board of Supervisors proposed a plan that would boost LSU's clout on the hospital's governing board.

Inside the Hong Kong Food Market, a live crab eyes shoopers from inside his huge tank.

A judge has ordered a mental evaluation for a Terrytown teenager who is under suicide watch in the parish jail as he stands accused of raping and killing his girlfriend's 8-month-old son this month, court records show.

Seven juveniles have been arrested in connection with a shooting at a Sweet 16 party that injured three people - two of them seriously on June 13.

Authorities said a Terrytown mother was arrested after a crack cocaine binge at The Siesta Motel in Marrero.

GRETNA, La. - Jefferson Parish court records show that a judge has ordered a mental evaluation for a 17-year-old under suicide watch and accused of raping and killing his girlfriend's baby son.

A Terrytown woman has been booked with child desertion and improperly supervising her son after authorities say the 3-year-old boy ingested cocaine when she went on a weekend drug binge.

Ideas about how to restructure, divvy up and use the state's "rainy day" fund are plentiful at the Louisiana Capitol, as the fund has become one of the central arguments in the state budgeting battle between the House and Senate.

Tough economic times, continued low participation and code violations in this year's Carnival season have led the Gretna City Council to debate consolidating Fat Tuesday parades routes with Jefferson Parish in order to keep the celebrations alive.

A Terrytown man has been booked with attempted murder after shooting at a man who accidentally rang his doorbell, authorities say.

The Louisiana House took up the debate much earlier than expected, and when the smoke cleared, the controversial state budget bill was approved and sent to Gov.

A Marrero man accused of raping his girlfriend's teenage cousin has been arrested by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and remains in custody.

BATON ROUGE - While complimenting legislators on their work on the proposed state budget, Gov.

A 17-year-old boy is jailed without bond after an 8-month-old boy died in his care, police say.

Sheriff Newell Normand reports, earlier today our officers were dispatched to 1600-block of Gary Court, Apt B in unincorporated Gretna to a call of an infant who was unresponsive.