Old Jefferson News

As six women gathered to pray the rosary at the Rumbo house, and another began collecting donations for the family, it became clear that the deaths there in a fire early Thursday left a hole in Kenner .

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

A Jefferson Parish grand jury handed up indictments in unrelated crimes Thursday, charging an Old Jefferson man with murder and a Westwego man with raping a girl starting when she was 4 years old.

Certainly nobody is against the raising of houses to prevent them from flooding, but many of the houses that are being considered to raised are outside of the levee system.

A Mandeville man is recovering in a hospital after being ejected from his pick-up truck in a Metairie wreck this afternoon .

Four seniors from east bank public high schools are recipients of full scholarships from the New Orleans chapter of the Posse Foundation.