Metairie News

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Office is on a scene of a triple shooting at the 3200 Riverside Dr.

Weeks after cousins Kevin Stewart Jr. and Curt Thomas Zeller Jr. were first accused of burglarizing seven Metairie homes, the detective working the case has piled on more charges -- thanks to the victims' record keeping.

Right now, the national unemployment rate stands at 9.5 percent, the highest in more than a quarter century.

Sheriff Newell Normand reports, around noon today, Jefferson Parish officers responded to a report of a possible drowning at 5300-block of Citrus Blvd in Metairie.

Fire Station 14 in Old Metairie is almost ready for opening, but Jefferson Parish and the building contractor are at odds over design changes and costs.

A Metairie resident has been arrested on a charge of soliciting online for sex with a juvenile, Kenner police said today.

An Arizona man with a taste for alcohol and no money to pay for it has been arrested three times in the past week for running up tabs at Jefferson Parish restaurants and then refusing to pay his bill.

Authorities in Jefferson Parish said they are investigating an early-morning double shooting in Metairie.

The Uncle Sam Jam in Metairie gets the 4th of July weekend underway this evening.

Three New Orleans men have been indicted by a Jefferson Parish grand jury in connection with a February killing, and two attempted murders that happened just hours after the fatal shooting.

WDSU announced today that Scott Walker will join its staff of broadcast journalists late this summer, returning home after serving as a newscast anchor at television stations across the Gulf South.

The Louisiana Supreme Court today announced that Metairie lawyer Bill Hall and Carol Leblanc, administrative assistant for the North Lafourche Conservation, Levee & Drainage District, have been appointed to the state Judiciary Commission.

A 17-year-old who was shot in the parking lot of a LaPlace club June 13 died Monday, and St.

Affordable rental housing is on the upswing in New Orleans, and apartment developers hope they can find enough tenants to fill the new offerings.

Three people accused of burglarizing cars in Metairie have been newly booked with five car burglaries in Kenner, police said today.

A woman and two teenagers arrested last week for an East Jefferson vehicle burglary spree picked up new charges after investigators discovered that the truck they drove to the detective's bureau after being summoned for questioning was stolen, according to Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrest reports.

OPELOUSAS - Arthur Lee Henry, a custodian at T.H. Harris Technical College in Opelousas, will be honored as one of three of the state's 'Citizen Heroes' Thursday at a banquet in Metairie.

Contract workers Carlos Johnson, left, and Jody New remove part of Sylvia Ziegler's fence along the Metairie side of the 17th Street Canal.

Ciara Craig, who's charged in the death of her newborn baby, was kicked by another inmate and needed stitches to her forehead, her lawyer said Tuesday, June 23, 2009 A Metairie woman who is accused of leaving her newborn to die in Lake Pontchartrain was injured by another inmate in Jefferson Parish Correctional Center last week.

The Louisiana House has blocked a proposal to postpone a tax break for three years.