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More cars and trucks on Jefferson Parish roads, the inevitable byproduct of widening Interstate 10 through Metairie and expanding the Huey P. Long Bridge across the Mississippi River, formed a central theme among those who took the microphone at the Regional Transportation Management Center.

Problems with overtime costs, continuing paychecks for departed employees and other financial controls have afflicted New Orleans area school systems before .

A veteran New Orleans police officer was arrested Monday by the agency's internal affairs unit and booked on hit-and-run charges.

Over the objections of two veteran board members, the Jefferson Parish School Board Wednesday night approved a contract with Teach for America to provide 35 teachers for some of the system's poorest and lowest-performing schools.

JEFFERSON, La. -- The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is continuing its investigation into Harvey Volunteer Fire Company #2 following the arrest of one of its top officials.

Less than a year after laying off 54 veteran educators , the Jefferson Parish School Board is considering hiring almost three dozen Teach for America graduates over objections from the teachers union.

A plan to ease crowding at the largest elementary school in Jefferson Parish, the 1,125-student Estelle Elementary in Marrero, could set off a chain reaction shifting hundreds of students among five West Bank sites for 2012-13 and creating the school system's only campus spanning pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

JEFFERSON, La. - Jenna Temple said she felt a rush of adrelanine as she aimed at her target and pulled the trigger.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Rio Vista, an early subdivision in Jefferson Parish, bounded by Davis Boulevard on the north, River Road on the south, Rio Vista Avenue on the east, and Labarre Road on the west.

JEFFERSON, La. A suspect in a Jan. 10 murder was found in a motel along with an illegal gun and marijuana, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

With contract negotiations set to begin this spring between the Jefferson Parish School Board and its teachers union, School Board President Mark Jacobs has formed a new committee to improve relations with the union.

The single engine Cessna 172 is parked in a World War II-era hangar on the grounds of the Monroe... JEFFERSON, La.

The group of seventh-graders listened with solemn absorption as Leona Tate described what it was like to be a 6-year-old in 1960 thrust into the struggle for racial integration, introducing the children to more than a history lesson, but history in person.