Grand Isle News

The West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office arrested former LSU football safety Norman Lejeune Sunday.

The West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office arrested former LSU football safety Norman Lejeune Sunday.

The Coast Guard said in a news release they were unable to see any sign of the helicopter or its pilot after the Sunday afternoon crash about 35 miles southwest of Grand Isle.

The Coast Guard is searching for the pilot of a helicopter that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday.

A helicopter crashed in Gulf of Mexico waters roughly 35 miles southwest of Grand Isle, according to a report by WWL radio .

For the second time this year, a politically connected Grand Isle man's sexual battery trial has been postponed because of health problems.

The tide and wind were right, and the fishing reports were excellent: Grand Isle anglers had been taking limits of fat speckled trout "along the beach." So when guide Danny Ray, owner/operator of Calmwater Charters, pointed his big cat boat south in Caminada Pass heading for the Gulf seashore, I was excited -- until I looked east, then west.

A scientist caught the birth of rare twin waterspouts on camera as the twisters churned to life over Louisiana waters yesterday .

Jefferson Parish officials have received an update on the tornado that touched down in Grand Isle.

A tornado touched down in Grand Isle this afternoon. No injuries were reported, but the barrier island was without electricty and several buildings suffered roof damage, said Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts.

The brutal beating of an owner of a Grand Isle motel by two men during an armed robbery early today is under investigation by Grand Isle police and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department, authorities said.