Maurepas News

St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's detectives booked a 23-year-old Maurepas man with murder Tuesday in connection with a 2008 homicide, a Sheriff's Office spokesman said.

Brandon Frost was sent home from Maurepas High School for wearing an Indianapolis Colts jersey.

Investigators arrested three people who were grilling steaks on the front porch of a Livingston Parish house while making methamphetamine in the kitchen oven, authorities said Thursday.

Student sent home for wearing the jersey, ACLU of Louisiana faxes principal a letter supporting student's right to express opinions Friday, February 5, 2010 A Maurepas High School student says he was sent home for wearing an Indianapolis Colts jersey after the principal encouraged students to wear jerseys supporting the New Orleans Saints in the ...

A Maurepas High School senior was sent home from school today for wearing an Indianapolis Colts jersey on "Black and Gold" day, said his father, Larry Frost.

Three people were arrested for allegedly "cooking" meth in the kitchen of a Maurepas home Tuesday evening.

BY JACK ELLIOTT Beginning in 1731 the French rebuilt Fort Rosalie at Natchez. Unlike the first fort built in 1716 of palisade construction, the new fort was much more substantial, laid out in a pentagonal plan with a rampart surrounded by a ditch all with two lines of wooden fence.

Arctic air remains over the Deep South and will bring yet another round of sub-freezing temperatures in the metropolitan area tonight into Tuesday morning, the National Weather Service said.

A Freeze Warning is posted for areas south of Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas midnight tonight until 9AM Wednesday morning.

BY JACK ELLIOTT When thinking of Fort Rosalie, one tends to envision the rectangular palisade with bastions that was erected during the summer of 1716 and destroyed in the aftermath of the 1729 massacre.

Two Ascension Parish men were arrested on multiple counts of burglary and theft in a series of vehicle burglaries in the River Highlands subdivision, deputies in Livingston and Ascension parishes reported Friday.

Authorities arrested three people in connection with the operation of two methamphetamine labs in a handicap van occupied by a quadriplegic man, the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office reported Friday.

As Hurricane Ida continues on a northward trek into the Gulf, local emergency officials say they don't expect any major effects from what is anticipated to be a minimal hurricane at landfall.

A trail of blood led sheriff's deputies to a suspected burglar Tuesday evening. Deputies were responding to a burglar alarm at a home on Swan Street in Maurepas when they noticed a broken window, a puddle of blood and a small amount of hair around the window.

In advance of President Barack Obama's visit to New Orleans this week, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation released a report today outlining the lack of progress on several critical coastal restoration projects in wetlands east and west of the city.

Four people have been arrested in two separate meth lab busts Monday near Maurepas and Walker.

The man overseeing construction at a new Livingston Parish school says he wants the seven kids accused of vandalism to help clean up the mess.

Two dozen canoes carrying more than 50 people might seem like a crowd, but as soon as our flotilla set off on a guided expedition into the Manchac wetlands, we seemed swallowed by its immensity and secluded within its wilds.

A pick-up truck blasts through the flooded street in June 2008, pushing a wave of water toward Uptown homes.

Deputies arrested on Thursday a man accused of finding marijuana plants growing in his yard and taking care of them to have pot to smoke, the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office reported Friday.