Prairieville News

The 24th Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival will be March 24-28. The festival will feature master classes, panel discussions, celebrity interviews, theater and food and music events, a scholar's conference, improv comedy, poetry slam, short fiction and one-act play competitions, breakfast book club, literary walking tours of ...

Eight roads remained closed Monday in the wake of recent heavy rainfall and high river levels, parish officials said.

A teacher from Prairieville is one of eight finalists in the "Great Pork Recipe Playoffs," a competition which features tailgating meals made of pork.

The Ascension Parish grand jury has indicted a Prairieville woman on single counts of vehicular homicide and felony hit-and-run in the death of a Geismar woman last summer, prosecutors said Thursday.

A lawsuit filed in Civil District Court Friday afternoon challenges the residency of Orleans Parish Clerk of Criminal Court Arthur Morrell, alleging that Morrell lives in Prairieville and not Gentilly and as a result should not be allowed to run for re-election. The suit, filed late Friday by Stephen Gordon and Cameron N. Ehsani Landry, names as ...

East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office deputies booked a 36-year-old man on a sexual battery count Monday after he came to District Court to answer another sexual battery count.

ASCENSION PARISH, LA - Several roads in Ascension Parish are closed due to high water: Amite River Rd.

Jeffery Renard Allen's Holding Pattern, a collection of short stories, has won the $10,000 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for a book published in 2008.

KeyPoint Federal Credit Union will expand next year in Ascension parish with the construction of a new branch in Prairieville at 14154 Highway 73, about one mile east of Interstate 10.

Ascension Parish sheriff's deputies are investigating a Wednesday evening shooting.

A recent car crash involving a van along Interstate 10 near Prairieville that claimed the lives of five children and one adult and left nine other people critically injured is a terrible reminder of what can happen when seat belts are not used.

Baton Rouge police are warning drivers to buckle up after a tragic accident that left five people dead.

Funeral is Saturday for 6 killed on I-10 West Bank bureau Four children of a Harvey family remained hospitalized Wednesday after a fatal crash Thanksgiving weekend on Interstate 10 in Ascension Parish that claimed the lives of six relatives, according to family members.

Two people have been arrested after sheriff's deputies found what they say was the start of a meth lab in an apartment on Little Prairie Road.

Mona Hines packed her van full of little helpers Saturday morning. After spending the Thanksgiving holiday with her family in Harvey, the 38-year-old was headed to her Baton Rouge apartment to box up her belongings, with her four daughters and several nieces and nephews helping out.

A wrecker service loads the van that crashed on Interstate 10 on Saturday morning, killing four children, Ricky Hines, Jr., 2, Lachante Floyd, 12, Edward Barnes, 14, and Ashley Hines, 14, and the driver, Mona Hines, 38, all from Harvey.

Edward Barnes III wasA one of the five people who died in traffic accident on I-10 near Prairieville on Saturday, November 28.

Louisiana State Police, Ascension Parish Sheriff's Department, Prairieville Fire Department and Acadian Ambulance personnel gather for a prayer after handling an accident that killed five and injured eight others Nov.

Louisiana State Police Troop A is currently investigating a rollover fatal crash that occurred today just before noon on Interstate 10 east of LA 928 in Ascension Parish.

Ascension Parish sheriff's deputies are seeking the public's help in finding two masked men who robbed a Dollar General store of nearly $1,500 late Monday evening, the Sheriff's Office said.