Bridge City News

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An investigation will be conducted into an ammonia release in the New Orleans area.

Jefferson Parish authorities are investigating an ammonia leak they say is coming from the Cytech Industries plant in Waggaman.

A New Orleans teenager suspected of forcing several women to strip naked at gunpoint and then robbing them was arrested Tuesday and remains in custody at the Jefferson Parish correctional center, police said.

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.

A sheriff's spokesman says two men working construction on the Huey P. Long Bridge fell to their deaths Friday.

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

Jefferson Parish deputies are investigating the late night murder of a man in Bridge City, according to Sheriff's Office spokesman Col.

Investigators think it was robbery attempt Tuesday, June 16, 2009 West Bank bureau An man was critically wounded in a Monday morning shooting in Bridge City, and Jefferson Parish investigators are searching for suspects.

After hours of searching, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office's SWAT team finally found a man who had broken into and barricaded himself in a Bridge City convenience store early this morning.

A 27-year-old man was shot several times in what may have been an attempted armed robbery early Monday morning in a Bridge City apartment complex.

An unidentified man was critically wounded in an early morning shooting in Bridge City, and Jefferson Parish investigators are still searching for suspects.

BRIDGE CITY, La. - The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office says two bridge construction workers fell to their deaths when the framework of steel reinforcement rods on which they were working gave way.

Two men died Friday evening when they fell while working on the Huey P. Long Bridge.

Chateau Estates Elementary librarian Kira Berggren sorts through books Thursday.

STAFF PHOTO BY SUSAN POAG PreK student Tyree Emilien watches as he makes bubbles during the Bridge City Elementary School preK and Kindergarten annual picnic at Bridge City Playground Monday, May 18, 2009.

An older lady in Al Jackson's Bridge City neighborhood surprised the then 14-year-old singer when she said he sounded like Fats Domino.

Authorities reported no leads Monday in the shooting death of a Marrero teenager whose body was found in the backyard of a vacant Metairie apartment complex.

The West Bank levee board decided Friday to use a former Waggaman sugar plantation as a source of clay for raising levees, despite objections from neighboring residents and the property owner.

By Paul Rioux West Bank bureau The Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans district commander is "pretty confident" West Bank flood-protection upgrades will be completed by June 2011 as planned, thanks to extended construction hours and increased efficiency by getting contractors involved in the planning stages.