Hahnville News

A state District Court judge sentenced a St. Charles Parish man to life in prison after the defendant was convicted in March of the armed robbery of a Vacherie bank, prosecutors said.

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

A driver stopped for not wearing her seat belt and her passenger were both arrested after Kenner police discovered the meat-company truck she was driving and the freezer full of steaks had been reported stolen from Missouri, according to Kenner police.

St. Charles Parish could use $8 million of its projected $33.7 million in cash reserves to complete construction projects and subsidize operations, but Parish President V.J. 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.

Work on a bike path that is expected to be completed by December is conducted on the Mississippi River levee under the Hale Boggs Bridge in Luling on Thursday.

Certified nursing assistants, process technology interns and firefighters were among the positions available at a job fair Thursday in Reserve.

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.

Plans for a new St. Charles Parish library in Paradis are now posted on the library system's Web site, and the Library Board has set a meeting Thursday to approve the layout.

A 34-acre tract near the Hale Boggs Bridge in Luling is part of a surge of public construction that is bringing hundreds of workers to the area.

Fernando Ordonez takes the measure of the gazebo being built in front of the St.

In an age of Web-enabled cell phones and GPS devices, the stream of visitors to St.

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.

Additional repairs to the Destrehan and Hahnville sewage treatment plants should cost about $4 million, a parish consultant told a St.

Public school students in St. Charles and St. John the Baptist parishes raised their ACT scores last spring.

St. Charles Parish school officials will review a practice of color-coding student identification cards at the district's two high schools that indicate a student's academic achievement level after a parent complained that it was unfair.

Thomas L. Clark IV, 20, 122 Champagne Drive, Lot 24, Hahnville, was booked July 16 with simple burglary in connection with the burglary of a vehicle in Paradis.

Parker Waichman Alonso LLP, together with the Law Office of Robert M. Becnel, Salas & Co., L.C., and Herman Herman Katz & Cotler LLP, announces that it has filed suit on behalf of several Louisiana residents who sustained damages as a result of a release of the chemical ethyl acrylate at the Dow Chemical Company's St.

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade claims ethyl acrylate fumes have been released three times since since October Wednesday, July 15, 2009 An environmental watchdog group claims that ethyl acrylate fumes have been released from the Dow Chemical plant in Hahnville on three occasions since last October.

Workers continue to drain a large storage tank from the Dow Chemical plant in Hahnville, the source of acrid fumes that spread over much of the New Orleans area on Tuesday, according to the company.