Garyville News

St. John the Baptist Parish authorities arrested a Texas man on suspicion of threatening another with a handgun after the two were involved in a minor vehicle accident early Monday evening, a department spokesman said.

A Garyville, Louisiana man calls himself the "Chocolate Santa," but he's considering a name change after some recent serious concerns.

St. John the Baptist Parish administrators plan to spend as much money as they take in next year, according to a proposed 2010 budget.

Most of Marathon Petroleum Co.'s 42 percent increase in emissions was due to paint use during its expansion, according to Nicole Brien, environmental coordinator for the Garyville plant.

As officials continue to examine how to clean a malfunctioning $3.3 million water filtering system, St.

Proposed cap and trade laws to stem the production of greenhouse gases will have an outsized effect on industrial manufacturers in the River Parishes, economist Loren Scott told an economic development forum on Monday.

Two streets in St. John the Baptist Parish will be resurfaced with a $1 million state grant, a parish official said Tuesday.

Mark Anderson is converting a former FEMA trailer park in Convent, La., into the Sugar Hill RV Resort.

Last year, Marathon Petroleum Co. got a clean bill of health for about 15 acres once used to dispose of oily sludge at the company's Garyville refinery, and Tuesday, it got the same clearance for two former sludge storage pits .

A break in a major water line Monday morning prompted St. John the Baptist Parish officials to issue a boil order for the LaPlace area, which has been beset with drinking water problems in recent years.

San Francisco Plantation is noted as "The Most Opulent House on the River." The San Francisco Plantation is in Garyville, Louisiana along River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

The Louisiana Attorney General's Fugitive Apprehension Unit arrested a Denham Springs man who allegedly owes $140,000 in child support payments.

Federal prosecutors say the illegal immigrants were subcontractors at Marathon OIl in Garyville.

Expansion of the Marathon refinery in Garyville is credited with producing a sales tax revenue surplus for the St.

A man who worked at a Louisiana petroleum refinery has been charged with calling in a false report of a bomb threat.

Adult education students Corey Brown, 23, Rachel Guillory, 33, and Holly Landry, 28, work on computers Thursday at the old Garyville Grammar School.

The St. John the Baptist Parish School Board is planning to take bids for the first group of projects in a five-year, $46 million capital improvement effort, consultants said Thursday.

The St. John Redirection Center, a school for expelled students, has a new location this school year and is continuing a new operating system started at the old school site in January.

Attendance was up by more than 400 students in St. John the Baptist Parish on the first day of school Thursday, compared to the first school day last year and in 2007.

The St. John the Baptist Parish school for expelled students will move to the Leon Godchaux Alternative Programs campus in Reserve this fall, a decision some School Board members criticized for being made without board approval or public input.