Metairie News

Long-time vet METAIRIE - Services for long-time vet Dr. Thomas Melius, Jr. will be Thursday.

NEW LEADERSHIP TEAM for the Sisters of Mount Carmel include, from left, Sisters Paula Derise, Kathy Farrelly, Lawrence Habetz , Mary Ellen Wheelahan, and Sheila Undang .

Since the money was discovered stolen, the school board has made steps to address the problems, but parents said these are issues that shouldn't happen at all.

In the idealistic educational strategy that Salman Khan spelled out Monday evening to an enthralled audience at the University of New Orleans , students learn at their own pace from the thousands of YouTube videos his enterprise has turned out for a worldwide audience on everything from art history to organic chemistry to differential calculus.

A new cross-cultural Latin restaurant concept from the founders of the Zea Rotisserie & Grill and Semolina restaurant chains is taking shape at a prominent address on Metairie Road.

A Fat City armed robber was sentenced Monday to 110 years in prison for two holdups in Metairie 's former nightlife district.

Two miles of Airline Drive in Metairie will be resurfaced under a $2 million contract that got underway Monday.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand, who is also chairman of East Jefferson General Hospital's board, and other hospital officials plan to discuss the potential lease of the parish's two hospitals at a public meeting in Metairie Monday night.

It's all a game of odds. Some people play just for a chance at winning. Others rely on their own system of numbers and rituals to cash in on their luck.

Stephen Crawford first set foot in a classroom at the age of 8, shortly after his physically and emotionally abusive father punched him in the face and kicked him out of a car in the middle of a Metairie neighborhood.

A man told Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies he rendezvoused with a stripper at a Metairie apartment complex, looking for a "good time." Instead he was robbed following a blast of pepper spray to the face.

Stephen Crawford, who was abused and abandoned by his father on the streets of Metairie in 2003, gets his picture taken by his legal guardian's niece Melissa McGoey after he receives his diploma during the L.W. Higgins commencement ceremony at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

When he was a child growing up in Terrytown, arts and crafts projects were a part of every holiday for Mitch Rotolo.

Walter Ross III and Alexander Johnson recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Both are members of Boy Scout Troop 491 and were recognized for their achievements during a recent Court of Honor, held at St.

Louisiana lawmakers are considering multiple pieces of legislation relating to K-12 and higher education issues.

Les Bonano and The Fight Guys return Professional Boxing to the Legendary Landmark Hotel, 2601 Severn Ave, Metairie, LA on THURSDAY June 6, 2013 at 7:30 PM.

The Millennial Generation is starting to see what the baby boomers already know, tanning in your youth makes skin look older, faster.

Stanford Randolph, left, and David Lewis are wanted by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office in connection with three Metairie armed robberies.

Two Memorial Day services are coming up in Jefferson Parish, one on the West Bank and one in East Jefferson Parish.

Students at J.C. Ellis Elementary in Metairie were treated to a New Orleans Saints/Gatorade Junior Training Camp Thursday.