Jefferson Parish

Some 35 employees of Jefferson Davis Parish will be getting a pay raise after a vote of police jurors this week. Police Jury finance committee chairman John Marceaux says the 3 percent pay raise for more than two dozen parish employees was unanimously approved by police jury members Wednesday...

More jobs are coming to Louisiana. Freshy Foods will expand their facility in Jefferson Parish.

A Metairie man is dead, the victim of gunfire from Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies who opened fire on him when he allegedly pointed a weapon at them.

Here's a link to a great editorial by Walt Bennetti of "Click Jefferson dot com". This is Walt Bennetti's editorial and does not express the opinion of Newstalk 96.5 KPEL or any of it's staff members.  It does make for great reading.

GRETNA, La. (AP) — A 35-year-old Terrytown man has been booked with murder in the death of his 6-year-old daughter.

Five teens in the Jefferson Parish city of Harvey are behind bars--charged with robbing and murdering a man.

NEW ORLEANS - The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced today more than $16.3 million in additional mitigation aid for flood protection measures in St. Charles, Franklin and Jefferson parishes, as well as for backup electricity support at a Baton Rouge medical facility.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Three companies applying for the state's last available riverboat casino license are proposing projects in Jefferson Parish and Lake Charles.

RIVER RIDGE, La. (AP) — A 12-year-old girl who was shot at her River Ridge home last month by another child has died.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The two children most seriously injured when a car slammed through a schoohouse wall remain hospitalized.

A 12-year-old girl who was accidentally shot when an 11-year-old girl fired a gun inside a home in River Ridge, has died.

TERRYTOWN, La. (AP) — A car slammed into a private school classroom in suburban New Orleans and injured six children, one critically.