Marrero Couple's Mitigation Woes
Darlene and Howard Self , of Wellington Drive in Marrero, flooded during Hurricane Katrina. They had their home elevated by Celebrity Contractors, whose principal was recently arrested for contractor...
View ArticleTerrytown Elementary School Opens School Year With New Building
Terrytown Elementary School kicked off first day for Jefferson Parish school Monday, August 15,2011 with the opening of its brand new building. Students have been housed on a temporary campus and in...
View ArticleBoys find dynamite in rural Sun barn
Robert Dyson and Jonathan Anthony, both 13, find dynamite in a barn off Louisiana 21 in Sun. The St. Tammany Sheriff's bomb squad was called Monday, August 22, 2011, and they detonated the explosives.
View ArticleMarsalis Music Center to open
Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis the men behind music performance, education facilty in Habitat for Humanity Musician's Village.
View ArticleFriends of St. Augustine High School ask judge to recuse himself: Video
They cite his ties between a nonprofit group he helped form and the Archdiocese of New Orleans
View ArticleSecond-line parade food vendors face municipal crackdown
A vendor calls out at the Original Pigeon Town Steppers Easter Second Line Parade on April 4, 2010.
View ArticleSt. Bernard commemorates Katrina's dead
Annual St. Bernard Parish Hurricane Katrina Commemorative Service at Shell Beach
View Article6th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Residents, politicians, and volunteers take part in ceremonies Monday, August 29, 2011, marking the 6th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the man-made disaster of the federal levee failures that...
View ArticleMarsh fire aerials
Raw video aerials of the stubborn eastern New Orleans marsh fire Wednesday, August 31, 2011
View ArticleJim Bridger's attorney comments on his client's guilty plea
Jim Bridger, the former general manager of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad whose use of railroad assets led to his ouster, pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to a single charge of...
View ArticleMuslims mark Ramadan Wednesday
Area Muslims mark the end of Ramadan with prayers at the Pontchartrain Center.
View ArticleLSU's Jarrett Lee talks about 40-27 win over Oregon
LSU's Jarrett Lee talks about 40-27 win over Oregon.
View ArticleTropical Storm Lee Floods Highway 23 and Myrtle Grove
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser and P.J. Hahn, Plaquemines Parish Director of Coastal Zone Management, describe the flooding from Tropical Storm Lee and the issue of getting the Corps of...
View ArticleCrown Point Flooding
Residents of Crown Point anxiously watched and waited Sunday, September 4, 2011 as water blown in by Tropical Storm Lee flooded roads and surrounded homes.
View ArticleJPSO Sheriff Talks About The Impact of Tropical Storm Lee On Jean Lafitte
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand Sunday, September 4, 2011 talks about the impact of Tropical Storm Lee on the town of Jean Lafitte and some of the measures his department has taken in response...
View ArticleWater Recedes In Myrtle Grove
As water recedes in the Myrtle Grove area, workers construct a temporary road to allow pumping equipment in to help drain the area. The road will also double as a levee to keep water to flowing back...
View ArticleSheriff Newell Normand talks about Metairie stabbing.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand talks about a stabbing that left one dead and one injured at a Metairie apartment complex on Thursday, September 8, 2011.
View ArticleMayor Landrieu announces grass cutting program
Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced a $200,000 pilot program that will hire unemployed neighbors in the Lower 9th Ward to clear the neighborhood’s overgrown lots, which residents say have become a thriving...
View ArticleLA Air National Guard 159th commander remembers 9/11
Louisiana Air National Guard 159th Fighter Wing Commander Col. Roy 'Deacon' Qualls talks about the units' response and participation on Sept. 11, 2001.
View ArticleBeverly Eckert 9/11 Widow
Beverly Eckert of Stamford, CT, became a Habitat for Humanity volunteer and worked on houses in Slidell, LA after her husband, Sean Rooney, was killed in the World Trade Center bombings on September...
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