Chalmette News

The Knights of Nemesis take to the streets of "The Parish" as they rolls on Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette Saturday February 11, 2012.

CHALMETTE, La. - Two teens have been arrested and another is being sought on charges they used a BB gun to shoot out 40 street lights in the parish last week, according to the St.

CHALMETTE, La. - Two teens have been arrested and another is being sought on charges they used a BB gun to shoot out 40 street lights in the parish last week, according to the St.

Chalmette -- Deputies have arrested two teenagers and are looking for a third suspected of shooting out 40 streetlights with a BB gun in Chalmette.

Although you may have to get out the umbrellas and rain gear, the first official weekend of Mardi Gras 2012 is here.

Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposed 2012-13 budget unveiled Thursday assumes that Crescent City Connection tolls will expire and also calls for privatizing three Mississippi River ferries that are heavily subsidized by the tolls.

CHALMETTE, La. -- For Leslie Wilson, Jr. it's a daily sight -- two houses on his block in Chalmette that have been vacant for years and are rotting away.

LSU's landscape-architecture program repeatedly gets top rankings. The undergraduate program - the only one in the state - has been ranked the nation's best for three of the past six years.

ST. BERNARD PARISH, La. -- The investigation into nearly $200,000 in stolen parish property in St.

St. Bernard Parish is once again facing lawsuits about the parish's housing policies, and this time one of the legal challenges comes from the U.S. Justice Department itself.

A Super Bowl Sunday crawfish boil may pinch your wallet, but the mudbugs are getting cheaper every day as a mild winter and recent rains continue to lessen the effects of last year's drought.

NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana State University's landscape-architecture program repeatedly gets top rankings.

He often haunted flea markets and rummage sales, and with his leather jacket and shades, Jimmy Descant looked more like a musician than a visual artist.

Early Monday morning, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office received a report that the Winn-Dixie on Paris Road was robbed.

Two Honduran immigrants, Darbin Maurisio Santos-Casto and Selvin Rodriguez, were sentenced Tuesday in Chalmette to 40 and 50 years respectively for tying up a father, a daughter and a retired FBI agent and holding guns to their heads during an attempted robbery at a diner in July 2009.

Two St. Bernard Parish government employees have been booked with theft and fired.

Throw me something mister! That's what Jimmy's Kids is hoping you'll be yelling a lot of this Carnival season.

With shooting about to get started in New Orleans on the sci-fi yarn " Ender's Game ," producers have scheduled another local casting call for young people interested in appearing as background players in the film.