Avondale News

The Jefferson Parish School Board's decision to redraw attendance boundaries on the West Bank, a move intended to ease crowding at Catherine Strehle Elementary School in Avondale, has hit an unexpected snag.

Defense attorneys for former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson played a recording Wednesday from a May 2005 lunch meeting in which Brett Pfeffer, a former Jefferson aide, assured investor Lori Mody that their dealings with the Democratic congressman were perfectly legal.

Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies say an Avondale man was shot to death Monday night.

An Avondale man was shot to death Monday night in the 300 block of Glenn Della Drive in Avondale, said Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman Col.

Jefferson Parish Sheriffs Officers and Avondale Fire Department officials work an overturned 18-wheeler Monday on Lapalco Blvd., near Highway 90.

A New Orleans teenager suspected of participating in a drive-by shooting in Avondale and then threatening one of the victims over the phone was arrested Thursday, police said.

Louisiana state government is in the midst of a severe budget crunch. The Jindal administration will be making cuts to higher education and health care to balance the budget.

A nonprofit and charter school administrator from New Jersey was unanimously chosen to lead the Algiers Charter Schools Association at a special board meeting Thursday night.

Jefferson Parish has spent $340,000 on paving and drainage work at an Avondale car wash being built by sons of former longtime Kenner City Councilman Nick Baroni.

A man found shot to death in Bridge City Thursday morning has been identified by the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office.

A $9.2 million bailout of a financially struggling golf course near Avondale is nearing final passage in the Louisiana Legislature.

An Avondale man gunned down in front of his home Thursday night was well liked by neighbors and often fed people struggling after Hurricane Katrina, said his family.

Jefferson Parish investigators are looking into a shooting that led to the death of an Avondale man Thursday night.

Traffic accidents in two parishes claimed the lives of three men in the New Orleans area this weekend, authorities reported.

A 15-year-old boy who will be prosecuted as an adult and two men were indicted Thursday on charges they conspired to kill and then carried out a shooting in Avondale that left two apparently innocent teenagers dead.

When members of the Jefferson Parish School Board meet today, a large part of the discussion is likely to center on facilities, including a list of possible projects to be funded by a bond issue and a motion that proposes consolidating school campuses.

Explicit images were found on computers West Bank bureau Two West Bank men were indicted Thursday in unrelated child pornography cases, according to U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office.

In a departure from the incremental fluctuations of years past, the Jefferson Parish public schools' latest crop of test scores revealed a marked pattern of accelerated growth that is both "substantial" and "widespread, " district officials said.

Louisiana lawmakers are praising President Barack Obama's plan to trim about $17 billion in federal spending in his record $3.4 trillion federal budget proposal, but question his decision to hold off financing on an 11th amphibious Navy ship, a project centered at Northrop Grumman's Avondale Shipyards.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating a string of armed robberies on the West Bank this morning, including a potential kidnapping in Marrero and a carjacking in Avondale.