Reserve News

St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputies booked a Reserve man with aggravated burglary after a home invasion, where authorities say he hit another man several times with a claw hammer.

Most of Marathon Petroleum Co.'s 42 percent increase in emissions was due to paint use during its expansion, according to Nicole Brien, environmental coordinator for the Garyville plant.

The St. John the Baptist Parish Council approved an agreement Tuesday for an engineering firm to design a gym at Regala Park, a project that is part of the parish's $29.5 million bond issues.

State Police are searching for a late model Ford Mustang in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a pedestrian last week.

Norman Francis , who has led Xavier University for 41 years, has been named one of America's Best Leaders in a poll conducted by U.S. News Media Group and a division of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Certified nursing assistants, process technology interns and firefighters were among the positions available at a job fair Thursday in Reserve.

The Louisiana Technical College-River Parishes Campus will host a job fair and Octoberfest on the Reserve campus Thursday, with at least 17 industries and businesses expected to be represented.

United Community Bank of Gonzales, which has about $129 million in deposits, is the subject of an acquisition bid by a larger bank based in Raceland.

A day after a 36-year-old Reserve woman was killed in a hit-and-run accident, authorities and family members still search for the unidentified driver of a pickup truck who witnesses say never stopped driving.

A motorist in Reserve near LaPlace ran over and killed a woman trying to walk across Airline Highway before daybreak today, Louisiana State Police said Thursday.

Two streets in St. John the Baptist Parish will be resurfaced with a $1 million state grant, a parish official said Tuesday.

With Louisiana facing a projected budget deficit, Gov. Bobby Jindal has given his administration orders to trim the fat, and state transportation officials suggest permanently mooring most of Louisiana's ferries, which they say are a perennial budget drain.

Authorities recovered the body of a 41-year-old Reserve woman in the Mississippi River on Tuesday evening, a day after her sweatshirt, keys and purse were found near the ferry landing in Reserve.

Ramona High School 12th-grader Josue Mocelotl says he has gained discipline, self-motivation and a close bond with the 130 cadets he commands in the school's Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corp unit.

Jackson Parish in north Louisiana has a small Sheriff's Office, but it is getting big recognition for its support of its seven employees who are citizen soldiers in the National Guard and Reserves.

Brother James Joseph, of Detroit, walks along River Road Tuesday on his way to a chapel in LaPlace.

More students who complete an accelerated education program in the St. John the Baptist Parish school system are continuing their education, either through a traditional high school route or some other path, than they did five years ago, according to a recent report.

A St. John the Baptist Parish grand jury has re-indicted Errol Victor Sr. and his wife, Tonya Victor, in the 2008 death of Tonya Victor's 8-year-old son, M.L. Lloyd III .

A break in a major water line Monday morning prompted St. John the Baptist Parish officials to issue a boil order for the LaPlace area, which has been beset with drinking water problems in recent years.

The Godchaux-Reserve Historical Society plans to donate the Godchaux House, a Reserve home historians estimate was built in the 1700s, to St.