Marrero News

Aidan Gauthe, a fourth-grader at Immaculate Conception School in Marrero, seems like a regular 9-year-old. He likes to ride his scooter, go fishing and hang out with big brother Nicholas Gauthe, a seventh-grader. Melinda Morris, The Times-Picayune Aidan Gauthe, center, is feeling a lot better these days after being diagnosed and treated for acute ... (more)

Worried about the spread of blight and the loss of a link to their neighborhood's history, residents around St.

Jamal Taylor , 25, of 7841 Heather Drive, Avondale, was arrested Jan. 9 in the 200 block of Derbigny Street and booked with aggravated second-degree battery, illegal use of a weapon, aggravated criminal damage to property and aggravated cruelty to animals.

Described by federal authorities as the driving force behind much of the violence and narcotics in a West Bank community, the Harvey Hustlers and their enforcement arm, the Murder Squad, ran a criminal enterprise that showed no mercy in defending its turf or retaliating against debtors or witnesses to its operations.

The Jefferson Parish School Board has put the brakes on more than $6 million in renovations at five schools until it completes its plan to consolidate and close several of its 89 campuses.

An Orleans Parish jury deadlocked over the death penalty for Kenneth Barnes late Thursday in the 2009 execution of a 19-year-old couple following an early morning robbery and kidnap-for-ransom attempt that ended in an abandoned Gert Town house.

Arrests Kenneth A. LeBlanc Jr., 38, 677 Bertucci St., Marrero, was arrested Feb.

Students at Academy of Our Lady in Marrero recently completed more than 2,500 hours of community service as they worked to spread the message of peace and solidarity throughout the community, during their fourth annual Service Week Project.

An Orleans Parish jury has found Kenneth Barnes guilty on two counts of first-degree murder in the brutal killings of a 19-year-old couple in Algiers .

Cracks and small air pockets in a new floodwall south of Marrero are aesthetic issues that do not affect the wall's structural integrity, Army Corps of Engineers officials said Tuesday.

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.

SUSAN POAG / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Jan Lancaster, superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, speaks shortly before a mass at Immaculate Conseption Church as the students in grades 11 and 12 from Academy of Our Lady and Archbishop Shaw celebrated the feast day of St.

A dozen men have been indicted on federal racketeering charges linked to a West Bank drug trafficking ring called the "Harvey Hustlers" and its enforcement arm, the "Murder Squad," which allegedly committed kidnappings and at least one murder.

During a 10-hour span in 2007, Terrance Napoleon of Marrero went on a rampage across metro New Orleans with a sawed-off shotgun, shooting a teenager in the back of his head in Crown Point and blasting a plumber in his face in Kenner .

PARKWAY PARTNERS will plant its 10,000th tree since Hurricane Katrina Thursday. The organization, which supports the Department of Parks and Parkways, launched RELEAFING NEW ORLEANS to restore the city's urban forest after the storm.

Karen Ann Barrios and Jason Emil Nelson were united in the sacrament of Holy Matrimony at the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist on Saturday January 7, 2012.

An independent review of the debris that's been found in a levee being built south of Marrero is a needed step but one that is going to take most of the year to accomplish, according to the Army Corps of Engineers .

A teenager carrying a handgun and wearing body armor was apprehended at this year's Martin Luther King parade on the West Bank, in an event that periodically had been marked by violence, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

I have been scratching my head over the number of readers who've recommended their favorite roast beef po-boys on the grounds that they're "like homemade." A woman dismissed the entire search for the roast beef po-boy holy grail as a fool's errand because, as she put it, "Everyone knows no one makes roast beef like mama's." DAVID GRUNFELD / THE ... (more)

The mother of kidnap and murder victim Calyisse Perkins wept on the witness stand Tuesday as she recalled seeing her daughter's ravaged face, a thick plug missing from her head, one eyelid inverted and streams of blood down her cheek.