St. Rose News

A planned $19 million pump station at Cross Bayou near Airline Drive in Destrehan, designed to drain portions of St.

Billy Raymond Sr. of Hahnville was elected chairman of the St. Charles Parish Council on Monday, succeeding Terry Authement.

About 80 homes in St. Charles Parish lost power last night, but all were back on line this morning with the exception of a home in Killona, which suffered roof damage, according to Entergy spokesman Doug Rhodes.

The St. Charles Parish East Regional Library, depicted in this rendering, is scheduled to open in Destrehan in January.

An 18-year-old St. Rose man, who allegedly exposed himself and inappropriately touched a 15-year-old girl in a Destrehan High School classroom while a video was being shown, has been booked with sexual battery and molestation of a juvenile, according to the St.

St. Charles Parish's Emergency Operations Center has been closely monitoring the movement of Hurricane Ida.

When the housing market was hot, some developers building subdivisions in St. Charles Parish were eager to get around the parish's requirement that the new streets have sub-surface drainage.

Construction is under way for a barrier along Airline Drive t o keep motorists out of the canal alongside it, but high water in the canal is slowing the work.

Lionel McKnight, 51, King Drive, Tangipahoa, was booked Sept. 25 with theft after he allegedly stole a trailer containing assorted tools and equipment in St.

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $9 million contract to raise a 1-mile-long portion of the East Bank Hurricane Protection Levee to 16.5 feet from 11.5 feet, a height designed to withstand a 100-year storm.

In the shadow of the Hale Boggs Bridge in St. Charles Parish, this weekend's Alligator festival was in full swing - an indication, people there said, of how far their parish has come.

Money intended to help rebuild economic activity in parts of the Gulf Coast hit by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will be used to build a biodiesel plant in St.

In the following press release the FBI in New Orleans announced that Ryant Price , age 46, a resident of Saint Rose, was charged today in an eight-count Superceding Indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for theft of government funds, wire fraud, mail fraud, and false states to the Louisiana Road Home Program in connection with his 2006 application for ...

A St. Rose couple was scammed out of $3,000 for home renovation work last month, but the St.

Sixteen St. Charles Parish homes that have flooded several times will be raised to a higher elevation under a federal program designed to stop repetitive flood claims.

The state Bond Commission has renewed its approval for $100 million in GO Zone bonds to continue construction of a biodiesel refinery in St.

A man who allegedly committed contractor fraud against a St. Rose couple has been identified by the St.

ST. ROSE, La. - Deputies in St. Charles Parish are looking for a contractor who took $3,000 as a down payment to perform renovations on a home, but never delivered on his promise.

Two suspects have been arrested and another is being sought in the home invasion that left an elderly woman dead and her husband hospitalized.

Adam M. Baloney, 26, 101 First St., Apt. D, St. Rose, was booked Aug. 12 with possession of cocaine after he was picked up on a Jefferson Parish fugitive warrant.