Laplace News

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.

St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputies booked a Reserve man with aggravated burglary after a home invasion, where authorities say he hit another man several times with a claw hammer.

Authorities arrested a 17-year-old boy in connection with a Monday night homicide, where the 19-year-old victim was found lying against a car in the middle of a LaPlace street, St.

After a new round of inspections, a dozen day care centers in Louisiana have had their licenses revoked, and two of them are in the New Orleans area.

The state social service agency Tuesday announced closure of a dozen child-care centers throughout the state that posed safety risks to children.

The charter and recreational fishing communities are still in an uproar over the sudden announcement last week by the NOAA Fisheries Service that the recreational quota of 1.368 million pounds on amberjack in the Gulf of Mexico had been reached -- after which it closed sport fishing last Sunday.

As officials continue to examine how to clean a malfunctioning $3.3 million water filtering system, St.

A LaPlace woman pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to defrauding the American Red Cross of $17,045 in hurricane disaster assistance in 2005.

Louisiana's attorney general and local district attorneys have urged storm victims who feel contractors have cheated them to file complaints with their offices.

The Westwego City Council and Mayor John Shaddinger are once again wrangling about who has which powers in the city and this time they've decided to get the Louisiana attorney general involved.

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.

LaPlace Oaks resident Lyndell Wilson takes a walk Tuesday with her nephew, Mekhi Joseph.

They were the first commercial business to make and sell andouille. Jacob's Andouille has been owned by four generations of the Jacob family.

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Troop B ***Update*** Hit and Run Fatality Crash Involving a Pedestrian in Laplace LOUISIANA STATE POLICE COURTESY LOYALTY SERVICE Colonel Michael D. Edmonson, Superintendent TROOP B- NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release Date: October 21, 2009 ***Update*** Hit and Run Fatality Crash Involving a Pedestrian in Laplace Troop B- Louisiana State Police, ...

State Police are searching for a late model Ford Mustang in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a pedestrian last week .

United Community Bank of Gonzales, which has about $129 million in deposits, is the subject of a merger bid by a larger bank based in Raceland.

Katy Reckdahl's reporting is supported in part by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

A day after a 36-year-old Reserve woman was killed in a hit-and-run accident, authorities and family members are still searching for the unidentified driver of a pickup truck who witnesses say never stopped.

Authorities arrested a third man Thursday in connection with a robbery inside a convenience store, a St.