Harvey News

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, as expected, adopted its $118 million spending plan for 2009-10 during Thursday's annual budget hearing.

A Harvey man injured in a motorcycle crash near his home Sunday died Tuesday morning at LSU Interim Public Hospital from his injuries.

After 35 years, justice has flirted with Joe Gennaro Jr. His father, Joseph Gennaro Sr., was gunned down May 3, 1974, during an armed robbery attempt at his restaurant in Harvey, which authorities said was targeted because it cashed payroll checks for customers.

The left westbound lane of Interstate 610, between St. Bernard Avenue and Canal Boulevard, will be closed tonight, 8 p.m.-5 a.m., for joint repairs.

Seven juveniles have been arrested in connection with a shooting at a Sweet 16 party that injured three people - two of them seriously on June 13.

Crime spree included carjack at McDonald's West Bank bureau A Harvey man convicted of a Valentine's Day 2008 crime spree was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison.

Collision snarls traffic in Slidell Wednesday, June 17, 2009 St. Tammany bureau Two people were injured Tuesday afternoon when an SUV crossed the Interstate 10 median in Slidell and collided with a car, according to authorities and witnesses.

Legislation to allow medical workers to opt out of performing services for moral or religious reasons narrowly passed out of a state Senate committee Wednesday.

The Girl Scouts, the Awesome Ladies of Distinction and the Special Olympics are caught in a state Capitol tug-of-war. Those projects are among hundreds of favored add-ons that lawmakers inserted in next year's budget bill and that are caught in a financing dispute between the state House and Senate.

The story of the Opelousas Guards, also known as Company F of the 8th Louisiana Infantry during the American Civil War, will be told Saturday by Harvey Wier, a descendent of a member of the company.

Residents along the Harvey Canal soon will get a break from the ground-shaking, sleep-robbing sound of contractors driving floodwall pilings at night.

The president of the west flood protection authority in the New Orleans metro area and other officials are in Washington, D.C., appealing to Louisiana's congressional delegation for funding.

Over the objections of a West Bank lawmaker, a House committee approved legislation Tuesday to divert some of the money that now goes to the unincorporated areas of West Jefferson to help build a library at Grand Isle.

Capable of filling an Olympic-size pool in less than 5 seconds, the massive pumping station the Army Corps of Engineers plans to build south of Harvey is being billed as the largest in the world.

A Baton Rouge nightclub owner whom Corey "C-Murder'' Miller allegedly tried to shoot in 2001 asked an appeals court Friday to lift the stay of his civil lawsuit against the rapper.

A Jefferson Parish jury deliberated about 35 minutes before convicting a Marrero man Thursday of killing another man during a robbery attempt in Harvey.

Before he died recently, a man who pleaded guilty for his role in a bank robbery attempt in Algiers that left an Orleans Parish Sheriff's deputy dead told federal prosecutors he planned a 1974 robbery of a Harvey restaurant that ended in murder.

Jury selection is set to begin this afternoon here in rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller's trial on two counts of attempted second-degree murder.

Small towns that depend on traffic ticket revenue could see their coffers shrink under a bill approved Thursday by the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

The families of Wayne Hebert and Jeffrey Camardelle killed in the armed robbery of Gomez's Bar last fall are suing the estates of brothers Wallace and Beuford Gomez, also killed in the shootout.