Metairie News

METAIRIE, La. - The FBI is seeking the public's help in identifying a bank robber they say held up the Fidelity Homestead at 3829 Veterans Blvd.

STARTING POINT: When Margaret Bossier's son Parker, now 22, was little, she would take him to the weekly farmer's market at Uptown Square to talk to the growers about their goods.

A judge is being asked to make public a video allegedly showing a tractor-trailer driver texting up until the moment of a fatal accident.

A kitten rescued on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway during morning rush hour Wednesday had to have one of her legs amputated Thursday, but is otherwise safe and likely headed to a good home, bridge officials said.

METAIRIE, La. -- Metairie neighbor Sam Garza and his wife are the only ones on their block now recycling their household goods.

Wow. Just wow. Stadium Rat, as he is known on the food and drink board at www.tigerdroppings.com , has shared something with us that took the Metairie resident some time to develop: his Jambalaya Calculator.

Now that the Jefferson Parish School Board's school closure and consolidation has been finalized, renovations and construction can resume at J.C. Ellis Elementary School in Metairie.

Arrests Keith M. Bush, 35, 70 Rosedown Drive, Destrehan, was arrested May 27 and booked with DWI and speeding.

Since I had double jaw surgery, two teeth removed and a three pint blood transfusion on Friday, my face is ridiculously swollen and I keep nodding off.

Sometimes the stitching that sews up New Orleans stories follows unconventional patterns.

Ultimately, will journalism be hurt by the recent decision by the Times Picayune and other media to go primarily digital? METAIRIE, La., May 29, 2012 -- Louisiana Bancorp, Inc.

Authorities say a drunken driver injured two women in a head-on collision in Metairie on Saturday, then fled the scene.

A Metairie resident wrestled with a man who had allegedly crept into his house looking for a place to sleep on Monday, according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrest report.

Dr. Kathy Baker teaches women at Melody Kirschke's Women Wanting Wisdom Hungerford, Texas Bible Study.

Brandon M. Henyard , 21, 2600 Kingston St., Kenner, was arrested May 22 in the 1900 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard and booked with possession of crack cocaine.

The Coast Guard said in a news release they were unable to see any sign of the helicopter or its pilot after the Sunday afternoon crash about 35 miles southwest of Grand Isle.

Jefferson parish investigators are trying to locate the man who stole an FBI agent's service weapon and badge.

A Metairie man was killed late Saturday when his car veered from Interstate 55 south of Pontchatoula, rolled several times and came to rest in a tree line along the side of the highway.

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Some food-truck operators in New Orleans, who have long bemoaned hurdles for navigating the city's protocol for getting up to code, say they plan to form a nonprofit association that will create a single point of contact as they work to persuade officials to ease some of the rules of the game , like increasing the number of permits issued annually, ... (more)