• 3 booked in Slidell apartment drug raid
Three people were arrested after local and federal investigators discovered $14,000 in counterfeit bills and 14 grams of heroin inside an apartment in Slidell, authorities announced Tuesday.

• All robber wanted was to be a snitch
The attempted armed robbery initially played out like countless others that take place in the city: The robber pulled a gun on some workers and demanded money.

• Blood drive set to help boy, 9
The Blood Center will hold a blood drive Thursday to benefit 9-year-old Micah Roshell of Deridder, who is battling Hodgkin's lymphoma.

• Boyfriend booked in shooting death
A 23-year-old man's attempt to show his girlfriend a pistol ended in tragedy Monday night when the gun fired, killing her, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

• Bush to laud post-storm progress
BATON ROUGE -- President Bush plans to mark the upcoming three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a speech at Jackson Barracks today that will extol the progress made since he promised the federal government would stay "as long as it takes" to rebuild the Gulf Coast.

• Covington land add passes panel
An annexation that would pave the way for a 50-acre commercial center in northern Covington, where a par-3 golf course and driving range is located, has received the backing of the city's Zoning Commission.

• Covington puts tax on ballot
The Covington City Council, at the urging of Mayor Candace Watkins Tuesday night, placed a one-quarter-cent sales tax increase referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot for city police officers pay raises and to hire more firefighters.

• Doctor says bouncers killed student
BATON ROUGE -- Levon Jones, the Georgia college student who died after a clash with Bourbon Street bouncers on New Year's Eve 2004, was killed by the doormen who restrained him, a pathologist told a jury Tuesday.

• Extra judge is added to state 5th Circuit
A St. John the Baptist Parish district judge has been appointed to serve as a supernumerary judge on the state 5th Circuit Court of Appeal.

• Gretna to enforce property rules
Neighborhood restrictions in Gretna covering everything from landscaping to yard signs to cars parked on streets at night will now be enforced by city inspectors who can fine property owners and issue a court summons on rules that were previously the domain of homeowner's associations.

• Kenner to budget for trash money
Kenner residents probably won't have to pay more on their water bills for garbage pickup because Kenner City Council members plan instead to find money in the budget to pay the city's garbage contractor.

• Man held in LaPlace robbery, carjack
Authorities arrested a man Tuesday in a LaPlace carjacking that sent officers on a car chase through two parishes and ended in a foot chase near Louis Armstrong International Airport.

• Marrero man booked in shooting
A Marrero man accused of shooting a Covington crane mechanic in May turned himself in to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office this weekend.

• Marrero teenager guilty in killing
A Marrero teen admitted in court Tuesday that he fatally shot a man in the forehead over what police said was an unpaid narcotics debt.

• Metairie man gets life in prison
A Metairie man's seven convictions in the past 19 years have landed him in prison for the rest of his life.

• New law will send board back to school
Thanks to an amended state law requiring school board members to receive more training in education-related issues, school officials next year will be going back to the classroom.

• New library to be built at Lakeshore location
Because her house is just blocks from the Lakeshore Library on West Esplanade Avenue in Metairie, Beverly Zeller has been passing by for almost three years and pondering the storm-darkened building.

• New Orleans man held in shooting
Police on Tuesday afternoon arrested one of two New Orleans men wanted in a shooting that critically wounded a man Monday evening in Central City.

• N.O. school plans receive cautious support
State and local school board members, who will decide the fate of a proposed $685 million overhaul of city public schools, generally supported the plan at separate meetings in New Orleans and Baton Rouge on Tuesday.

• Parish may fight fire flap with PR
To handle some of the fallout surrounding its rift with the firefighters union, Jefferson Parish is looking for outside help.

• Pharmacy students getting their coats
Now it's the pharmacy students' turn.

• Playing the game of cat and house
A small gang of cats has taken to loitering in front of my house.

• Police cruiser crashes on South Claiborne
A section of South Claiborne Avenue between Broadway and Lowerline streets was shut down for about an hour Tuesday while New Orleans police investigated an accident in which a police cruiser spun out of control on rain-wet Claiborne and hit a tree.

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• Sky-high electric bills spark pleas for help
Faced with a $355.89 electric bill she can't afford, 73-year-old Antoinette Wenzel of Kenner called Entergy Louisiana LLC last week to register for help in the state's newly declared energy emergency.

• Slain teacher remembered as generous
Those who knew Weston "Tony" Verrette, the John Ehret High School teacher killed in his home last week, say he was generous to a fault -- a characteristic that defined him but eventually led to his death.

• Slidell woman dies in accident
A Slidell woman was killed in a morning wreck on Interstate 12 near Lacombe on Tuesday, State Police said.

• Sneed plans to resign Jefferson council post
When Jennifer Sneed closed on a house in New Orleans last week, she closed her political career in Jefferson Parish.

• St. Charles is recognized for emergency alert system
To become a "StormReady" community, St. Charles Parish needs four ways to reach its residents in an emergency. It has eight.

• TAKING A STAND
When the crabs or shrimp or fish ran low, Kent Burgess would walk across the street to see men with names like Bubby T or Richie Mac. Their boats bobbing in the water of the 17th Street Canal, the fishers handed over loads of seafood hauled straight from Lake Pontchartrain, and Burgess returned to cook the catch in pots and pans on a 10-burner Garland stove.

• Treme club ordered to close
After more than seven hours of testimony about violent incidents around a Treme nightclub, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on Tuesday determined that Club Fabulous has become a public nuisance, ordering that it be shut down for 45 days while taking measure to improve security.

• West Bank road lanes to close
Alternating lane closures are planned today and Thursday for a portion of Belle Chasse Highway south of Gretna.

• William Jefferson: Longevity, clout matter
For a brief time last month, the lurid legal drama that has engulfed U.S. Rep. William Jefferson for three years was pushed backstage.

• U.S. 11 bridge lanes to close
Maintenance work will close lanes on the U.S. 11 bridge over Lake Pontchartrain Thursday and Friday.

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• Prison term set over bootleg CDs
A River Ridge man has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison in connection with a scheme to sell counterfeit CDs and DVDs, authorities said.

• Water quality tests are canceled
The state Department of Environmental Quality has canceled a watershed sampling survey scheduled this week for Bayou Lacombe, Big Branch and Cypress Bayou in south-central St. Tammany Parish.

• Designs unveiled for two schools
A sloping roof, an expanded two-story configuration and a courtyard created with younger students in mind are just some of the highlights featured in the latest design drawings for Terrytown Elementary.

• 18-year-old sentenced to life in murder
An 18-year-old New Orleans man was sentenced Monday to life in prison for killing a teenager early last year with a gun allegedly given to him by his mother.

• Cabbie's killer wants retrial moved
Seventeen years after a cabdriver was shot and left to die beside the Earhart Expressway in Elmwood, the man awaiting retrial in the slaying now says the Jefferson Parish case should be dismissed because the shooting happened in New Orleans.

• Car in lake but no sign of driver
A report of a sports car submerged in Lake Pontchartrain early Monday sent the levee district, New Orleans police and the Coast Guard scrambling to the lakefront at Franklin Avenue.

• Disaster center getting better office
Even as Tropical Storm Fay had forecasters guessing its ultimate destination on Monday, New Orleans emergency preparedness officials said they'd taken several steps recently to improve their response to the next natural disaster.

• Folsom residents are facing the future
Folsom residents told planners Monday night about their interest in maintaining the rural, small-town feel of their village while also welcoming certain, inevitable expansions and changes to their zoning, demographics and culture.

• LaPlace man slain, cops say
A St. John the Baptist Parish woman fatally stabbed her boyfriend with a 7-inch steak knife Saturday after a fight, authorities said Monday.

• Man held in heist try in Mandeville
An Independence man was arrested after Mandeville police interrupted a trio trying to break into an ATM with a welding torch early Saturday, authorities said.

• Meetings on rezoning plan reset
St. Tammany Parish planning officials have postponed until Sept. 16 their public meeting to unveil a proposed rezoning plan for the unincorporated areas of southwestern St. Tammany.

• No decision on model home display
As expected, the Slidell Zoning Commission has tabled a decision on whether to let a local businessman place two model homes on Lindberg Drive near his modular home store.

• Police car crashes into N.O. building
New Orleans police are investigating an incident Monday night in which a marked police car crashed into a building in Central City, police said.

• Riverdale shuffle may be gradual
Contrary to a plan already approved by the Jefferson Parish School Board, school officials are now suggesting that wholesale changes to Riverdale High and Haynes Academy for Advanced Studies might not transpire in the 2009-10 school year.

• Robber targets woman at gas station
Deputies are investigating the armed robbery of an 18-year-old woman who was forced to hand over money after being accosted at a Reserve gas station.

• St. John scores on ACT jump
The St. John the Baptist Parish school system's ACT scores rose by six-tenths of a point in 2008, an improvement St. John Superintendent Courtney Millet said she expects to continue.

• TURNING A CORNER
When the final phone call of Willie Gant's overnight cop shift came in Monday at 5:30 a.m., for once it had nothing to do with a crime or an accident.

• Victim attacked 2 men just before he died, police say
Just before he was fatally run over by a car on Aug. 10, Devin Legaux allegedly beat up two people, including a food deliveryman about two blocks from where Legaux would die, according to police records.

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• Seeking help for Samaritan
When Mark Smith came to New Orleans as an AmeriCorps volunteer a year ago, he thought he'd be staying for 10 months, living at Trinity Christian Community and helping rebuild the Hollygrove neighborhood.

• Metairie woman kills attacker
A 30-year-old man's Sunday morning decision to break into his estranged girlfriend's Metairie apartment and attack her turned out to be deadly, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said.

• Road across the spillway is on the way to repair
The loss of a bumpy stretch of road through the Bonnet Carre Spillway has complicated the lives of residents in a fast-growing St. Charles Parish community.

• Eastern New Orleans gets new adult clinic
A new primary medical care center for adults and geriatric patients will open soon in eastern New Orleans.

• Grant advances safety gear idea
Air bags for motorcycles?

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• Restoring old park isn't child's play for neighbors
By all accounts, the Kingswood subdivision in eastern New Orleans attracts more children these days. In many cases, young families have replaced the older folks who never returned after Hurricane Katrina sent 8 feet of water through the area, residents say.

• Couple who bought home can't beat wrecking ball
The pile of rubble that a city-hired wrecking crew left at 5132 Kendall Drive in Gentilly Woods on Saturday was supposed to be the DeJan family's new home.

• Drop in tolls lets air out of bridge budget
Although officials from the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway expect a slight dip in toll collections in the coming year, they say work in the post-Katrina era to maintain the bridge and its vehicle fleet will help keep costs down in the interim.

• Homeless man charged in killing
The John Ehret High School teacher who was brutally murdered in his Gretna home Friday was killed by a homeless man he had housed, clothed and fed, police said Saturday.

• Three men shot dead in two attacks in N.O.
Three men were killed in less than two hours Saturday afternoon in two separate New Orleans shootings.

• Teachers dig in to make a difference
Ryan and Lindsey Campagna make me feel hopeful.

• Arson feared in St. John fire
State investigators suspect arson in a Sunday morning fire at a St. John the Baptist Parish Housing Authority complex.

• Buses added on West Bank
Commuters can expect shorter waits at the bus stop starting Sunday now that Jefferson Transit has decided to add buses to serve three busy West Bank routes.

• Clash over road test ends in arrest
A Bridge City man who allegedly threatened to "snuff" employees at the state driver's license office in Hahnville for refusing to give him a road test was booked with assault on Tuesday.

• Schools drop print scanning
The St. John the Baptist Parish School District has dropped the use of fingerprint scanning as part of its employee time clock in favor of a four-digit code and cameras at each sign-in location.

• Shepherd barred from law practice
The Louisiana Supreme Court has suspended state Sen. Derrick Shepherd's law license pending the outcome of his federal fraud and conspiracy trial.

• Teacher killed in his home
A Jefferson Parish public school teacher was found dead in his Gretna home Friday and police are searching for his missing car.

• Airline chase suspect claims post-partum depression
A Metairie mother accused of speeding down Airline Drive in the wrong direction, slamming into vehicles while her toddler rode in the back seat of her car, told investigators she had been suffering from post-partum depression, authorities said Friday.

• Buses added to serve Dome
Saints fans who want to avoid traffic and parking fees can take city buses to tonight's game in the Superdome.

• Complex for senior citizens touted in east N.O.
Now an empty field off Interstate 10, the site once was home to the Gaslight Square apartments, a symbol of pre-Katrina landlord neglect.

• Contract OK'd for east bank revamp
A city agency Friday approved a contract for architects to begin work on implementing the nearly $300 million "Reinventing the Crescent" plan for redeveloping New Orleans' east bank riverfront.

• Judge adds 12 years to sentence
A family pleaded with a state judge Friday to increase the sentence against the drunken driver who killed their 26-year-old son and husband, Daniel L. Hare Jr., in a two-vehicle wreck last Thanksgiving morning.

• Man booked with shooting at cop
A Harahan man was held in lieu of $175,500 bond Friday on charges of firing a gun at a police officer during a confrontation at his house.

• Man says Slidell's behavior unmodel
A Slidell man who recently opened a modular home business on Gause Boulevard said city officials have ruined his business after reneging on a deal to allow him to place two model homes near his store for customers to tour.

• Recall drive hits residency snag
Cries for Eddie Price's political head began on Internet blogs months ago. This week, the Web chatter grew deafening after a state audit found that the Mandeville mayor was not only a recipient of gifts from a Mandeville police Christmas charity but apparently was using public money to finance his vacations.

• Recycling may begin in October
Curbside pickup of recyclable items may begin as soon as October for a limited number of New Orleans households, though homeowners who sign up likely will have to pay between $3.50 and $6 a month for the service, city officials said Friday.

• Registrar absolved for mailer
A Republican Party recruitment mailer that appeared to come inappropriately from Jefferson Parish Registrar of Voters Dennis DiMarco was the result of error, not wrongdoing by DiMarco, Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said Friday.

• Safety patrols to be out on streets
St. Tammany deputies will be on patrol in neighborhood streets again today as part of an effort to increase safety on residential roads.

• Shepherd storms out before vote
State Sen. Derrick Shepherd stormed out of a meeting of the Algiers Development District board on Friday in a fit after chastising two of his colleagues for pandering to the "good-old-boy network."

• UNO wins big research contract
The University of New Orleans has received a $49.2 million federal contract -- the biggest in its 50-year history -- that is envisioned as a catalyst not only for the academic world but also for the struggling local economy.

• 1 caught, 2 sought in N.O. killing
Homicide investigators have arrested a 21-year-old man in the Monday morning murder of a Honduran construction laborer, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

• Advocates to save parishes get audience with Hughes
Scores of sign-carrying Catholics hoping to keep their parishes open marched on archdiocese headquarters Thursday and won a brief, unexpected hearing with Archbishop Alfred Hughes, who promised to consider an alternative plan they offered.

• Algiers stabbing victim identified
Medical examiners on Thursday identified a 39-year-old man who was stabbed to death in Algiers Wednesday evening.

• And the winner is . . . unclear
Mayor Ray Nagin takes his fair share of shots from New Orleanians who are less than thrilled with his leadership in restoring their beloved city. But a group of about 50 civic worthies apparently couldn't be happier with him.

• Arguments are not quite convincing
Steve Theriot had the easy job. He had all those facts and details to work with.

• Canal streetcar back in service
The Regional Transit Authority has solved the problem that shut down the Canal Street streetcar line Wednesday and early Thursday morning.

• CELEBRITY VISIT
Laura Bush dropped in on Edna Karr Senior High School on Thursday to celebrate the start of a grant program that delivers reproductions of American artwork to public schools and libraries nationwide.

• Driver withstands odd aerial assault
Hands down, local criminals prefer the gun. Some brandish the occasional knife or bat.

• Hopedale hooks fishing tour
The national spotlight will shine on St. Bernard Parish's outdoors and fishing culture this weekend when the Oh Boy! Oberto Redfish Cup sets up in Hopedale.

• Husband booked weeks after stabbing
A Texas man accused of stabbing his estranged wife more than a dozen times in June has been extradited to Louisiana and booked with attempted murder.

• Lapalco lane to close at canal
The right eastbound lane of the Lapalco Boulevard bridge over the Harvey Canal will be closed for the next two Saturdays, Jefferson Parish announced.

• LaPlace beauty store is robbed
St. John the Baptist Parish deputies are investigating the robbery of a beauty store Wednesday, the second armed heist of a LaPlace business in a week.

• Misuse of debit cards alleged
A Marrero man has been booked by Slidell police with using fake debit cards to buy expensive electronic equipment at Wal-Mart.

• Mortgage program not quite all there
A much-touted soft-second mortgage program designed to help low-income New Orleanians purchase freshly restored homes is not as "soft" as first described. And despite the July 31 announcement of its launch, it actually isn't yet ready to offer loans.

• Mother's death echoes her son's
After her son died in a car accident, Loretta Crawford remained a doting mother.

• Residents crowd council meeting
Mandeville residents packed a City Council meeting Thursday night to express their outrage after a state audit report revealed that Mayor Eddie Price racked up thousands of dollars in personal charges on the taxpayers' dime and accepted lavish golf trips from companies that do business with the city.

• School Board alters travel expense policy
The St. Tammany Parish School Board on Thursday unanimously approved a change to its travel policy that will require the board president's sole approval on members' travel reimbursement requests.

• Schools buy water cannons for turf
Artificial or not, the St. Charles Parish public school system's new synthetic turf is expected to need watering.

• Spending, revenues rising in city
Both expenditures and revenues at City Hall are running ahead of projections for 2008, the New Orleans Revenue Estimating Conference was told Thursday.

• Strut your stuff at Rooster Day
Want to celebrate the end of legalized cockfighting in the United States?

• Suspect arrested in 6 bank robberies
A Metairie man just off probation for holding up five banks was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges of robbing five more.

• Suspected accomplice in fatal beating booked
A New Orleans man has been booked as an accomplice in a fatal beating in Terrytown in May, the second arrest in the incident.

• Wrong-way driver crashes near airport
A woman with a small child in her car Thursday afternoon drove several miles against traffic in the wrong lane of Airline Drive before crashing at Louis Armstrong International Airport.

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• 4 fewer crimes reported in quarter
Crime in St. Charles Parish fell slightly in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2007, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office.

• Algiers stabbing takes man's life
A 38-year-old man was fatally stabbed Wednesday evening in a domestic incident in Algiers, police said.

• Algiers stabbing takes man's life
A 38-year-old man was fatally stabbed Wednesday evening in a domestic incident in Algiers, police said.

• Alleged dealer jailed in OD probe
A 20-year-old New Orleans man was brought to court Wednesday on a federal complaint for allegedly supplying the heroin that a 19-year-old college student snorted in a hotel room before dying of an overdose.

• Barge questions unanswered
A squad of St. Charles Parish officials and a duo from the Army Corps of Engineers did the best they could to answer Destrehan residents' questions Wednesday night about changes to a barge fleeting operation at Brown's Curve.

• Bobby Freeman is sworn in as Orleans district attorney
Bobby Freeman was sworn in Wednesday as Orleans Parish district attorney, becoming the second prosecutor to lead the office in the wake of former DA Eddie Jordan's controversial tenure.

• Council ready to hand over records
All seven New Orleans City Council members will fully cooperate with recently issued federal subpoenas by handing over any documents related to the city-chartered New Orleans Affordable Home Ownership Corp., said Russ Herman, an attorney representing council members in the matter.

• Council rejects shift in filling openings
A proposal to allow the Slidell City Council to appoint an interim member when a seat becomes vacant in the middle of the council's four-year term failed to pass muster Tuesday night.

• Electronic bingo proposal fails in Pearl River
Electronic gambling doesn't belong in Pearl River, the town's leaders have decided.

• Engineers to consider taking on canal project
Two out-of-state engineers who were selected to assess 17th Street Canal seepage and stability will get a first-hand look at the site today and discuss the high-profile job with regional levee officials.

• Huey P. delays to get longer
Commuters using the Huey P. Long Bridge should prepare for major traffic delays after state officials announced Wednesday that one lane on each span of the bridge will close for two months, possibly as soon as October.

• Jeff board urged to close school
A Jefferson Parish school board member has proposed closing the 82-year-old Ames Elementary School, transferring its students to Lincoln Elementary and building a larger, more elaborate campus to house both communities at the Lincoln site.

• Man pleads guilty to defrauding SBA
A Metairie man faces up to 20 years in prison after admitting Wednesday that he defrauded the federal Small Business Administration by using Katrina home-repair loans to buy a car, boat and house.

• Morial associate sentenced in tax case
Lawyer Roy Rodney Jr., who came under scrutiny as federal authorities probed the business dealings of former Mayor Marc Morial's administration, was sentenced to four months in prison Wednesday morning, months after he pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of failing to file income tax returns.

• Passport fair to be held Saturday in Covington
The U.S. Postal Service will conduct a passport fair Saturday at the Covington post office, 1775 N. Columbia St.

• Power failure shuts down streetcar
Look for a bus -- not a streetcar -- on the Canal Street line today.

• Road Home flexible on deadline
Louisiana officials tempered their position on a Sept. 5 deadline for Road Home applicants after a state legislative committee and the New Orleans City Council said the ultimatum was unnecessary and insensitive.

• School Board approves lower millage
The St. Charles Parish School Board approved its 2008 property tax rate Wednesday, lowering two taxes that voters renewed in 2007.

• Slidell's assistant police chief proposal also fails
An effort to create the position of assistant police chief in Slidell failed Tuesday after one City Council member said the post would not be in the best interest of residents, as it could lead to political patronage down the line.

• St. James crash has second victim
An Edgard man died Tuesday of injuries sustained in a one-car crash Saturday on River Road in St. James Parish, a State Police official said.

• Zoning options could shrink
New regulations being written for Covington will streamline the city's zoning codes, with 14 classifications instead of 25, consultants working on the project said.

• DWI ARRESTS
This list of people booked with driving while intoxicated and related charges was provided by the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office.

• Listening for music, not gunfire
The Rev. William Terry isn't naive. He knows criminals won't come running when they hear about a gun-exchange program.

• 2 St. Tammany school projects near completion
The renovation of Brock Elementary School in Slidell and construction of a new high school off Louisiana 1088 near Mandeville are moving forward, with both projects expected to be completed in the coming months.

• Algiers ferry back in action; probe of spill restarts today
The Coast Guard will today reconvene its investigation of the July 23 collision of a tank ship and barge after cutting off the first in a series of public hearings about the accident, which resulted in a massive oil spill on the Mississippi River.

• Board hires firm to direct projects
The St. John the Baptist Parish School Board will hire a company to help plan and manage a proposed $46 million construction program.

• Bywater stabbing victim identified
The New Orleans coroner's office on Tuesday identified the 32-year-old woman found dead in her Bywater home Monday morning.

• Charity's worker accused of theft
An accountant has been arrested on a charge of embezzling $17,300 from Wishing Well Foundation USA Inc., a Metairie nonprofit that grants wishes for ill children.

• Coastal panel to make budget choices
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority will decide today how to parcel out $300 million in state surplus money among a variety of hurricane protection and coastal restoration projects.

• Coast Guard's investigation into oil spill resumes today
The Coast Guard will today reconvene its investigation of the July 23 collision of a tank ship and barge after cutting off the first in a series of public hearings about the accident, which resulted in a massive oil spill on the Mississippi River.

• Council rejects political sign ordinance
An ordinance aimed at reducing clutter in Westwego by limiting how long political signs could be displayed in the city was shot down Monday by the Westwego City Council as an unacceptable restriction on free speech.

• Folsom to hold meeting on growth
The village of Folsom will hold a special public meeting Monday at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the village's growth, development and ways to maintain its small-town feel.

• Mosquito infected with West Nile found
A mosquito caught in a trap in St. John the Baptist Parish tested positive for the West Nile virus, officials said.

• Northshore Harbor Center taps manager
The Northshore Harbor Center Board of Commissioners on Tuesday named interim general manager Kathy Lowrey to the permanent position.

• Panel approves Lafitte site plans
Plans for redeveloping the mostly demolished site of the Lafitte public housing complex won easy approval Tuesday from the New Orleans City Planning Commission.

• Police say shooting victim didn't steal gun
Deputies no longer believe a Slidell area teen who was accidentally shot in the face with a stolen gun last month was involved in the theft of the weapon, a St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office official said this week.

• Power plant switch is pushed back
A move to convert part of Entergy Louisiana's Little Gypsy electric plant from natural gas to petroleum coke and coal is scheduled to begin in June 2009, about a year behind schedule, according to the company.

• State judge pleads innocent to theft
State Judge William Roe of the 25th Judicial District Court pleaded not guilty Tuesday to theft and malfeasance charges related to financial mismanagement at the Plaquemines Parish courthouse.

• Suspect pleads guilty to raping girl
A Denham Springs man has pleaded guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl in the Covington area, a crime whose investigation in 2004 touched off accusations of dirty detective work and judicial bias in St. Tammany Parish.

• Teachers getting new report cards
As teachers greeted a new batch of students in Jefferson Parish public schools this week, they started working under a new teacher evaluation program too.

• Westwego man's retrial in 1986 killing delayed
Nearly 22 years after he allegedly killed one man and shot another during an armed robbery attempt in Harvey, a Westwego man's retrial on a murder charge was postponed Tuesday, in part because an attorney was added to his defense team.

• Another candidate exits race for board
Cory Cuillier, a candidate for the Jefferson Parish School Board's 5th District seat, has dropped out of the race, saying he doesn't have enough time to devote himself fully to the post.

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• Public invited to talks on closed bridge lanes
The business community and interested residents are invited to public meetings today and Thursday to discuss upcoming lane closures during the ongoing Huey P. Long Bridge expansion project.

• Pump station worker falls into shaft
An employee for the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board was injured Tuesday when he fell 20 to 25 feet into a shaft while doing maintenance work at an Algiers pumping station.

• Schools get state funds for endowed positions
Seven local colleges and universities have received nearly $5.2 million from the state Board of Regents to establish five endowed chairs and 54 endowed professorships.

• Suspect booked in shooting
New Orleans police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of two men Friday afternoon in the 1300 block of St. Roch Avenue.

• 10 more Catholic parishes close
Archbishop Alfred Hughes last week signed documents formally closing 10 more Catholic parishes as part of the Archdiocese of New Orleans' continuing reorganization of parish life after Hurricane Katrina.

• 3 slayings add to NOPD's load
Capping off a violent weekend in New Orleans, police were investigating three homicides Monday. Two men were shot in separate slayings early Monday and the body of a beaten woman was found inside a house in the Bywater by midmorning.

• After guilty verdict, a plea
Two days after his former Slidell High School classmate and accomplice was convicted of the murder, Edric Cooper, 20, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Monday in the shooting death of illegal immigrant Jose Luis Martinez-Carpio.

• Canal Street ferry may open today
The Coast Guard is expected to reopen the Canal Street-Algiers Ferry today, after thunderstorms Monday delayed further oil cleanup needed near the east bank ferry landing.

• Car plows into woman's bedroom
For years, Dorothy Durham's friends have warned her that her home on K Street where Ninth Avenue dead-ends into it near Covington was just waiting for an accident.

• Contractors finish school work just in time for the opening bell
Last Friday, the halls of Joseph Davies Elementary School in Meraux were filled with the sounds of power saws and hammers. But on Monday morning, the construction equipment was drowned out by a different sound: the laughter and excited screams of almost 500 children.

• Flood lawsuit going forward
A state district judge has ruled that Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard may not be sued for negligence in a case that blames him for widespread flood damage during Hurricane Katrina.

• Gunman holds up store in Destrehan
A Destrehan convenience store was robbed at gunpoint Sunday night, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office.

• Jeff School Board vacancy filled
A former Kenner city councilwoman and local business owner was appointed by the Jefferson Parish School Board on Monday to temporarily fill the open 5th District seat.

• Library architect suing critic
The architect whose company designed St. Charles Parish's East Regional Library is suing a critic of the project for defamation, saying her statements have damaged his reputation.

• Meeting set in barge mooring dispute
A public meeting on a proposal to expand the barge mooring operation near the Ormond Estates subdivision will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Ormond Country Club.

• Moore withdraws from Division B judge race
Madisonville lawyer Patrick E. Moore has withdrawn from the 22nd Judicial District Court's Division B race for judge, whittling the Oct. 4 contest to two candidates.

• Parish employee booked with theft
For more than a year, Joseph Louding bought equipment on behalf of Jefferson Parish's health agencies, then hawked it on the street, according to an arrest report from the Sheriff's Office.

• School Board calls special meeting
The St. John the Baptist Parish School Board will have a special meeting today to discuss again a proposed contract with a Baton Rouge consulting firm for a capital projects study and management service linked to the Nov. 4 millage election.

• School bus involved in wreck
A St. Tammany Parish school bus slammed into the back of a Toyota on Monday evening after the car cut in front of it while turning onto Louisiana 59 near Mandeville.

• Slidell asks for comment on master plan
Residents have one more chance to offer opinions on Slidell's master planning process, with officials hosting a second final meeting on the subject Wednesday after an initial meeting was poorly attended.

• Slidell man booked with raping girl, 12
An 18-year-old Slidell man has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 12-year-old girl, authorities said Monday.

• Timing deemed wrong for hiring
Amid a growing minefield of lawsuits and animosity, Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard Monday canceled the months-long search for a permanent chief to lead Jefferson Parish's East Bank Consolidated Fire Department.

• Truck stop steers clear of video poker
It's been almost a year since Harahan's first and only truck stop, the Elmwood Oasis, opened on Jefferson Highway. And while fuel is flowing and the Subway restaurant is slinging sandwiches, city officials can't help but notice what isn't there: those blaring, blinging, revenue-generating video poker machines.

• With AC on the fritz, school to close early
McDonogh 32 Elementary School in Algiers will close at 12:30 p.m. daily through Thursday because of an air-conditioning breakdown.

• Creating joyful noise for a camp
William Croy's first memory of Camp Pelican came from his brothers, Patrick and Andrew.

• HAPPENINGS
ROAD CLOSINGS

• Lucille Yenni, wife, mother of Jeff leaders
Lucille Lawrence Yenni, wife of one Jefferson Parish president and mother of another, died Sunday at her home in Kenner. She was 90.

• MEETINGS
These government and community meetings are open to the public. To have meetings considered for inclusion, send e-mail to citydesk@tpmail.com with MEETINGS in the subject line or a fax to 504.826.3007.

• NUMBERS & WEB SITES
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

• One killed, 2 injured in River Road crash
One man died and two were injured, one critically, in a one-car crash Sunday evening on the River Road in St. James Parish, State Police said.

• Stepfather accused of raping 12-year-old
A Chalmette man is accused of raping his 12-year-old stepdaughter, authorities said.

• Virginian booked with kidnap, rape
A Virginia man working in Buras was arrested over the weekend and booked by the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office with kidnapping, raping and stabbing a woman he met in a Buras bar.

• Family's life destroyed in an act of violence
When Christopher Herzog went to the West Bank on May 30 with his wife and daughter, he planned to collect some money for car repairs he had done for a friend and spend the night with his brother-in-law.

• Boasso lays out his plans for port
Seeking to clear the air after his controversial hiring, former state Sen. Walter Boasso met with the Plaquemines Parish Council last week to discuss his plans for the parish's port -- and allay any lingering concerns about him taking the position.

• Two die Sunday in separate slayings
Two people were killed early Sunday in separate slayings, including a man who police said was intentionally run over by a car.

• Verret fire station gets OK
After months of uncertainty over its location, the flood-damaged fire station in the small St. Bernard Parish community of Verret is staying put and is ready for repair.

• Articles explore blow to psyche of children
The broad scope of Hurricane Katrina's devastation will require consideration of a variety of factors, including separation from parents, racism and family structure, to devise successful treatments for children, according to a special section of a peer-reviewed journal that two local university psychologists edited.

• HAPPENINGS
ROAD CLOSURES

• MEETINGS
These government and community meetings are open to the public. To have meetings considered for inclusion, send e-mail to citydesk@tpmail.com with MEETINGS in the subject line or a fax to 504.826.3007.

• One lane to close on Lapalco bridge
The right eastbound lane of the Lapalco Boulevard bridge over the Harvey Canal will be closed for part of today.

• Teen found guilty in trailer slaying
After deliberating for 14 hours, St. Tammany Parish jurors wept openly in court early Saturday as they found a New Orleans teenager guilty of second-degree murder for killing a Salvadoran man last year inside a travel trailer near Slidell.

• Crews remove front part of barge from Mississippi
After removing the exposed bow of the wrecked oil barge DM 932 from the Mississippi River on Saturday, salvage crews are expected today to lift the vessel's submerged midsection and stern, bringing to a close one of the largest river salvage operations in New Orleans history.

• Katrina recovery too slow, poll says
With the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina fast approaching, most New Orleanians are dissatisfied with the pace of rebuilding and recovery efforts, even as they remain hopeful about the city's future, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation released today.

• Party puts area on right track
Members of the Causeway Connection of Churches crowded into an upstairs room at Marine and Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Old Jefferson's Shrewsbury neighborhood one night recently to attend to last-minute details of throwing the group's first big event, a community block party.

• RTA to operate buses across river
The Regional Transit Authority will provide special bus service across the Mississippi River as long as the Algiers ferry is out of operation, the RTA said Saturday.

• Swimming in summer success
When Archbishop Philip Hannan started the Summer Witness program in 1966, it wasn't just about the swimming.

• 20 new troopers added to ranks
Twenty new state troopers graduated from the Louisiana State Police Training Academy in Baton Rouge on Friday and took the oath of office, including four who are joining Troop L in Mandeville and three who are joining Troop B in Kenner.

• 2 teens booked in car burglaries
Two Slidell-area teens allegedly burglarized at least 50 unlocked cars in subdivisions around the city before being caught by St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies, authorities said Friday.

• 5 youths booked in July incidents
Five youths from Destrehan and Norco who allegedly burglarized and vandalized a church, two schools and a country club in July were booked with simple burglary this week.

• Barge to be pulled from river today
Mississippi River onlookers should begin seeing cranes lift part of the enormous wrecked DM 932 oil barge from its two-week resting place against the Crescent City Connection today.

• Candidate asks board to stay mum
Before the St. Tammany chapter of the Alliance for Good Government held a forum for judicial hopefuls Wednesday night, one candidate urged the group not to make an endorsement in his race.

• Causeway worker cited in 5-car crash
A Lake Pontchartrain Causeway motorist-assistance driver was cited with reckless driving after causing a fiery, five-vehicle pile-up Thursday night while en route to help clear another accident on the bridge, authorities said.

• 'Conservative' budget for schools proposed
St. Tammany Parish schools Superintendent Gayle Sloan on Thursday night introduced a $334.5 million budget for the coming year that forecasts a 1.5 percent increase in spending, and pay increases for teachers and noncertified employees.

• Corps to add levee seepage protection
The Army Corps of Engineers will add a number of water relief wells along a stretch of the Industrial Canal's east bank levee walls after new technical analyses called for better protection from seepage beneath them.

• Ethics finding to be public after all
Contrary to a statement by an American Society of Civil Engineers official this week, the organization will publicly release the results of an investigation of an ethics complaint charging its staff with obstructing independent researchers investigating the causes of levee failures after Hurricane Katrina, society President Daniel Mongan said Friday.

• Eyesore next door angers Jeff boutique owner
To Brenda Romair, the vacant building next to her business on Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie stands in mockery of Jefferson Parish's beautification campaign.

• Gunman still on the loose after shooting 2-year-old girl
A 2-year-old girl was recovering from a gunshot wound to her arm Friday after being shot Thursday night in Mid-City.

• Inmate lawsuit decision upheld
An appeals court has affirmed the decision of a federal judge in dismissing a lawsuit against the Louisiana Department of Corrections that accused the state of violating Orleans Parish inmates' rights during the post-Katrina evacuation of 7,000 prisoners.

• Man booked with sex with pit bull
An Avondale man accused of having sex with his family's pit bull remained in jail Thursday after his mother reported him to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

• Man shot off Hayne Boulevard
New Orleans police and National Guardsmen helping patrol the city are investigating the Friday night shooting of a man in eastern New Orleans.

• Mayor, council pull off gloves
Everyone managed to stay civil, but the tension was palpable as Mayor Ray Nagin appeared before the City Council on Thursday to discuss his administration's botched home-remediation program, run by the now-suspended New Orleans Affordable Homeownership Corp.

• Mob scene follows double shooting
Violence that began about 4 p.m. Friday in the St. Roch neighborhood spilled over to the emergency entrance of the University Hospital nearly two hours later.

• Murder case in jury's hands
A St. Tammany Parish jury continued to deliberate late Friday evening in the second-degree murder trial of a New Orleans teenager accused of murdering a Salvadoran man in 2007.

• ODDS AND ENDS
ODDS AND ENDS

• Parish theft probe growing
An investigation that led to the arrest of one Jefferson Parish employee Thursday for theft is expanding, a parish official said Friday.

• Phone file feud delays Quinn trial
The contentious divorce between state Sen. Julie Quinn and former hotelier Patrick Quinn has turned into a contentious courtroom battle as he faces a charge of violating a court-issued protective order.

• Quinn trial delayed 3rd time
The contentious divorce between state Sen. Julie Quinn and former hotelier Patrick Quinn has turned into a contentious courtroom battle as he faces a charge of violating a court-issued protective order.

• Repair grant deadline is today
Today is the final day for St. Tammany Parish residents to apply for grants of at least $1,000 to be used for repairs of homes damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

• Road work to bring delays
The ongoing project to resurface a stretch of Interstate 12, from U.S. 190 south of Covington to the Bayou Lacombe bridge, will result in nightly lane closures from Sunday through next Saturday morning.

• Road work to bring delays
The ongoing project to resurface a stretch of Interstate 12, from U.S. 190 south of Covington to the Bayou Lacombe bridge, will result in nightly lane closures from Sunday through next Saturday morning.

• Software scheme violates embargo
A scheme to sell engineering software to Iran through a Brazilian company, violating a U.S. trade embargo in the process, landed two Jefferson Parish men in a halfway house for the next few months, authorities said.

• Water plant bids disappoint parish
St. Charles Parish officials had hoped to cut costs by seeking new bids for a water treatment plant unit, but instead found that prices have increased.

• Acting district attorney named
Bobby Freeman, the head of the Violent Offender Unit at the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, will succeed Keva Landrum-Johnson as acting district attorney for the next three months leading up to the fall election.

• CASINO ROYALE
Eighty-two-year-old Beau Bassich remembers the first time an uncle took him and his siblings on the streetcar to City Park in the 1930s. The group walked from a streetcar stop to the carousel, then located at the front entrance to the park on City Park Avenue, before making its way to "the cantina" for refreshments, including ice cream, snowballs and hot dogs.

• Churches plan block party
The Causeway Connection of Churches is "Taking It To The Streets" this weekend with a block party offering food, fun and some lagniappe of health care and job information for Jefferson's Shrewsbury community.

• GOP flier irks Democratic leaders
Jefferson Parish Registrar of Voters Dennis DiMarco has called a state GOP flier encouraging 12,000 voters to leave the Democratic Party misleading for listing his address as the apparent sender.

• Jeff Parish worker arrested in theft
Authorities arrested a Jefferson Parish employee Thursday accused of using public money to buy supplies and equipment from various businesses, according to Jefferson Parish officials.

• Jury hears murder defendant's confession
In his first confession to a Slidell area murder, a New Orleans teen told detectives that his friend "E" had fired the fatal shots.

• Kenner council tables inquiry
Because of "potential litigation" between Kenner and its garbage contractor, a divided Kenner City Council delayed a measure to create a council committee to investigate the city's garbage contract.

• Man gets 6 years in drug case
A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for conspiring to distribute Ecstasy in St. Tammany Parish, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office announced.

• Metaire fish fry to aid firefighter
Jefferson Parish firefighters are holding a fish fry today to raise money for one of their colleagues who is undergoing treatment for throat cancer.

• Niche carved out as seeds of hope grow
On Saturday, the Lower 9th Ward will open a new farmers' market.

• N.O. officer is charged with rape
A New Orleans police officer was charged with rape Thursday by the Orleans Parish district attorney's office.

• Raises for firefighters are delayed again
An independent evaluation has found that raises recommended by the New Orleans Civil Service Commission would not achieve their stated goal of bringing local firefighters' pay to the Southern regional average, the City Council was told Thursday.

• Recovery district sets up hotline
Parents can call the Recovery School District hotline at 1.877.343.4773 to get information on registration procedures, school hours and holiday dates, school locations, phone numbers, high school options for the district's career-focused academies, and more.

• Robbed workers locked in freezer
Two employees of a St. John the Baptist Parish sandwich shop were locked inside a freezer, authorities say, while two armed men robbed the store Wednesday.

• School fair is Saturday in N.O.
The United Teachers of New Orleans and the Urban League of Greater New Orleans will host a school fair Saturday -NT at Willie Hall Park, 1101 Milton St., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The fair will feature free school supplies, on-site school registration and more.

• Senator's calendars will be studied
The Louisiana Senate has until Aug. 18 to turn over copies of calendars stored on the computer of state Sen. Derrick Shepherd.

• Suspect arrested in N.O. killing
A 32-year-old New Orleans man was arrested Thursday in the shooting of two people in eastern New Orleans in July, one of whom died.

• HAPPENINGS
ROAD CLOSURES

• MEETINGS
These government and community meetings are open to the public. To have meetings considered for inclusion, send e-mail to citydesk@tpmail.com with MEETINGS in the subject line or a fax to 504.826.3007.

• Councilman defends charity
More than a year after questions arose about parish payments to a nonprofit he founded, Jefferson Parish Councilman Byron Lee publicly defended the sports charity Wednesday and asked its staffers to describe their good deeds before the Parish Council.

• East St. John High students finally get to use new jewel
Some St. John the Baptist Parish students will have a new school to return to today.

• Hearing set on property taxes
St. Charles Parish President V.J. St. Pierre Jr. said he will recommend that the parish keep property taxes at their 2007 rate except for bond issues that have been repaid.

• 'Hurdles' to airport takeover abound
A proposed state takeover of Louis Armstrong International Airport faces myriad legal challenges, including questions about whether the federal government would approve it, a New Orleans City Council committee was told Wednesday.

• Chalmette man held in child assault
A Chalmette man was arrested on charges of fondling his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter, sheriff's deputies said.

• Charter changes up to voters
The Covington City Council, as expected, has called a Nov. 4 election for voters to decide 11 proposed changes to the city's Home Rule Charter.

• Council keeps pool plan afloat
The Jefferson Parish Council on Wednesday approved a zoning change for a formerly decaying Metairie property that developers recently converted into condominiums, allowing the addition of a swimming pool, but only after gathering assurances from parish planners that the land could not become an unwanted commercial strip.

• Covington 79-year-old is crash victim
A motorist who died Tuesday after his pickup truck was hit broadside by an 18-wheeler north of Covington has been identified by authorities as William J. Guarino.

• DA gets case of city car crash
A city contractor who police say was driving New Orleans public works chief Robert Mendoza's city vehicle when it got into a three-car pileup will be prosecuted by the district attorney, not the city attorney, on a drunken driving charge, a Traffic Court judge ordered Wednesday.

• Drop deadlines, Road Home urged
Legal assistance groups are calling on the state to rescind new Road Home deadlines, alleging they are discriminatory and will keep thousands of homeowners from collecting the rebuilding money they have been trying for as long as two years to secure.

• Ethics report's results will remain secret
There will be no public release of the findings of a committee investigating an ethics complaint filed against the American Society of Civil Engineers charging its staff with obstructing independent researchers investigating the causes of levee failures after Hurricane Katrina, the professional engineering group said Wednesday.

• Firefighters squelch Lakeview blaze
A two-story, vacant home in Lakeview that was scheduled for demolition lost most of its roof in a fire late Wednesday afternoon.

• FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
With a new classroom wing and high hopes for the first day, students at Pope John Paul II Catholic High School filed into the Slidell school Wednesday to begin the 2008-09 school year.

• Garbage hauler acquires bond
Kenner's garbage contractor now has the required $2.6 million performance bond to protect the city if the company fails to do its job, company and city officials said Wednesday.

• Hazardous material forces clinic evacuation
Fumes from an unknown hazardous chemical that was brought into a walk-in medical clinic in Covington forced the evacuation of the clinic Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

• Heroin dealer may get life term
A Metairie man faces the possibility of life in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of drug and gun charges in connection with heroin distribution, authorities said.

• Jeff grants access to bids
The Jefferson Parish Council removed a legal barrier Wednesday that had let the government keep competing contract proposals hidden from the public.

• Man badly hurt in chase
A Violet man fleeing a traffic stop on a motorcycle was critically injured when he crashed into a St. Bernard Parish sheriff's vehicle blocking the road in Chalmette, authorities said.

• Man is finally arrested in post-Katrina looting
A Metairie man wanted for looting an Old Metairie residence in the months after Hurricane Katrina was finally arrested and booked with the crime Tuesday, arrest reports said.

• Missing child returned to family
A lost child found walking Wednesday afternoon in Gentilly and turned over to police was reunited Wednesday night with his family, who showed up at police headquarters looking for him three hours later, a New Orleans police official said Wednesday night.

• POLICE REPORTS
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office

• Property tax rolls open for review
Orleans Parish property owners who wish to challenge the tax collector's assessment of their property have only a few more days to do so.

• Report studies race in arrests
Minorities make up 16 percent of the population in St. Tammany Parish, but they represent 31 percent of those arrested in the unincorporated areas in the first quarter of 2007, according to a three-parish study by the ACLU, which says racial profiling remains a problem in Louisiana.

• Robber spurned at Slidell Wendy's
A tall, skinny man with a short Afro and perhaps a mole next to one of his eyes tried to rob the Wendy's restaurant at 2405 Gause Blvd. in St. Tammany Parish on Tuesday evening, firing a handgun several times, according to the Sheriff's Office.

• Ruling fought in Katrina deaths
A federal appeals court will hear arguments next month over whether the relatives of three elderly people who died while stranded in New Orleans during the frantic days that followed Hurricane Katrina have the right to sue the government for wrongful death.

• Streetcars offline in CBD for 4 days
Buses will replace streetcars on the Central Business District portion of the St. Charles Avenue line for the next four days, the Regional Transit Authority said Wednesday.

• SWEATING IT OUT
Heat waves rise from the ground at Yenni Stadium in Metairie as East Jefferson players prepare to take to the field. The Warriors new coach, Nick Saltaformaggio, was putting the team through its paces Wednesday.

• Woman shot as she flees robbery attempt
A 31-year-old woman was shot when she tried to flee an armed robbery attempt Tuesday night in Mid-City, police said.

• DWI ARRESTS
This list of people booked with driving while intoxicated and related charges was provided by the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office.

• Penguins find pals at aquarium
What could be better than a day at the beach? A whole new life at the beach, if you're Millicent and Nelson.