Des Allemands News

While many spend Thanksgiving Day feverishly cooking for their relatives, some local families and businesses are choosing to spend the holiday preparing meals for those they've never met.

Without any discussion, St. John the Baptist Parish council members Tuesday night greenlighted administrators' search for engineers to oversee two coastal restoration projects.

A Ponte Coupee Parish man was killed Wednesday morning when a crane on which he was working in Des Allemands toppled onto him, according to the St.

St. Charles Parish Councilman Paul Hogan will ask the Parish Council on Monday to call for an investigation into how the new building expanded from a 26,000-square-foot building to the 40,000-square-foot building that will open early next year.

The St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office is looking for a second suspect in the armed robbery of two Paradis men in their home last week.

St. Charles Parish Council members added $3.4 million to the parish's $134 million budget on Tuesday, prompting Parish President V.J. St.

Pernal Brumfield Jr., 24, 194 Tower Lane, Montz, was booked Oct. 8 with possession of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia after being stopped for suspicious activity.

Lionel McKnight, 51, King Drive, Tangipahoa, was booked Sept. 25 with theft after he allegedly stole a trailer containing assorted tools and equipment in St.

Former Destrehan High School band teacher Byron Toups began serving his one-year sentence Monday at the Nelson Coleman Correctional Center in Killona.

A 31-year-old Des Allemands man who allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old girl was booked with carnal knowledge of a juvenile Thursday.

Fisherman Joey Fonseca checks traps set on Lac Des Allemands. Shortly after chef Frank Brigtsen decided to reopen the Charlie's Seafood restaurant in Harahan last spring, he called Joey Fonseca in Des Allemands, the bayou fishing village famous for its catfish.

Through the hot summer and late into September this year, Cajuns take to the bayous in their air boats, pirogues and flat-bottomed mud craft in search of patches of lotus flowers floating in the shallow swamps and marshes of coastal Louisiana.

This photo taken Aug. 4, 2009 shows Casey LeBlanc eating a seed taken from the pod of a lotus... This photo taken Aug.

A Hahnville man has been booked with raping a 27-year-old Des Allemands woman whom he offered to give a ride home, police said.

Deputies arrested three lounge patrons and are looking for a fourth in the armed robbery and beating of a bar assistant manager at midnight Tuesday after he called for closing time, the Lafourche Sheriff's Office reported.

Adam M. Baloney, 26, 101 First St., Apt. D, St. Rose, was booked Aug. 12 with possession of cocaine after he was picked up on a Jefferson Parish fugitive warrant.

A man who allegedly burst into his girlfriend's apartment and took their daughter away at gunpoint was talked into releasing the child into the custody of a deputy and then arrested early Thursday Morning.

Byron Toups, 40 of Des Allemands, pled guilty to felony charges of malfeasance, intimidation of a witness and a misdemeanor charge of simple battery in St.

A man who was employed by the city of Lafayette has been convicted of charges he used his work computer to try to entice a minor into having sex with him.

Troop B- This morning shortly after 5:30 am, State Police investigated a two-vehicle fatal crash on LA 3127, which claimed the life of an Edgard woman.