Kenner News

Upon entering office as Kenner's new mayor in July 2006, Ed Muniz fielded a litany of complaints from employees about the city's health insurance provider.

Workers have stockpiled new dirt at the levee site behind the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner that will be used to replace dirt that contained the construction debris.

If absentee ballots were all that mattered, Robert Dawson would be the new 1st District representative on the Kenner City Council.

On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Steven Washington, 17, was arrested by members of the U.S. Marshall's Gulf Coast Task Force.

A pedestrian was killed in Kenner Thursday night after he was hit by a vehicle on Airline Highway.

With credit tight this year, many consumers are expected to ditch their credit cards in favor of cash.

A Kenner man has been booked with child desertion for allegedly leaving his 2-year-old daughter in his unlocked car while he got a haircut.

A state legislator whose jurisdiction includes a section of East Jefferson lakefront levee that must now be degraded because it was raised with unsuitable material almost a decade ago has demanded that the Army Corps of Engineers provide a full accounting of how the incident occurred and identify the responsible parties.

Building an ampitheater, spray park, parking lots and a dog park in Kenner's Laketown could cost more than $7 million, according to a newly-released feasibility study.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church in New Orleans East on Saturday.

Kenner police have arrested a third suspect in connection with a Sept. 12 shooting.

Two men have been arrested in the death of 7-year-old Paige DeJean, who was killed by a stray bullet that pierced the wall of her home in suburban Jefferson Parish.

Shots being exchanged by people in two different vehicles resulted in an errant bullet entering an apartment building killing 7-year-old Paige Dejean as she slept in her family's living room with a cousin early Sunday, Sheriff Newell Normand said Wednesday.

Joan Benge, right, gets hugs from friends and family after her lawyers argued her case in front of the Louisiana Supreme Court in September.

Police arrested a Montz man in connection with an accidental shooting that left a Laplace man dead, according to Kenner PD spokesman detective Brian McGregor.

Faced with declining sales tax revenues, the Kenner City Council is looking into other ways to fill the city's coffers.

Troop B- On November 5, 2009, Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit detectives arrested a Kenner man, Paul Austin , on charges of Possession of Stolen Things and Possession of a Motor Vehicle with an Altered VIN.

A 71-year-old Kenner man, who was aiming his BB gun at his neighbor's cats, hit his next-door neighbor in the foot instead, Kenner police said.

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.

In Kenner's District 1, a minority-majority seat that stretches from the Victorian homes of Rivertown through the Susan Park neighborhood to Loyola Drive's Lincoln Manor, a closely fought contest to succeed Marc Johnson now moves to a runoff.