Crime hits lowest mark of Champagne’s tenure

HAHNVILLE – Repeat offenders in St. Charles Parish have nowhere to go except jail, as crime during the administration of Sheriff Greg C. Champagne has hit an all-time low…

Bust nets suspects, heroin

LAPLACE – Four men, three from Columbia and one from El Salvador, were nabbed in a LaPlace parking lot during the night of May 2, and 10 pounds of heroin was seized…

Parish council approves covering Destrehan canal

HAHNVILLE – The eroding canal bank alongside Ormond Trace Subdivision in Destrehan will finally get the treatment residents have wanted for years – covering it…

Parish honors top teachers

LULING – Four St. Charles Parish teachers earned accolades this week from their peers in being named teachers of the year for 2001-02…

Parish council approves covering Destrehan canal

HAHNVILLE – The eroding canal bank alongside Ormond Trace Subdivision in Destrehan will finally get the treatment residents have wanted for years – covering it…

Police investigate drive-by shooting

LAPLACE – A 19-year-old LaPlace man was shot once Tuesday, while on the street in the LaPlace Housing Development along Joe Parquet Circle. Capt. Michael Tregre of the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office reported that Lavar Ellis of Houma Drive, in LaPlace, was in guarded condition at River Parishes Hospital…

Archdiocese looks into local allegation

LAPLACE – The Archdiocese of New Orleans had no official response to a lawsuit filed recently regarding a priest who allegedly molested an 11-year-old boy while at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church…

Odd Fellows parade set to role in Hahnville

HAHNVILLE – The annual Mother’s Day parade is set Sunday in Hahnville, celebrated by the United Order of Odd Fellows, starting at 11 a.m…

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