Softball
Super sophomore named team MVP after batting .380
Mary Elise Leary, daughter of St. Charles Parish District Judge Lauren Lemmon and Dan Leary, was named most valuable player on Louise S. McGehee School’s varsity softball team. […]
Month: May 2014
Baseball
Perrier Blues capture 14-U parish championship
The Perrier Blues won the St. Charles Parish 14-U championship with a thrilling, 5-4 win. […]
Baseball
Former DHS ace helps lead LSU to SEC tournament title
Former Destrehan pitcher Kurt McCune came up big for LSU in the SEC tournament title game against Florida on Sunday. […]
Crime
Cold Case: 16-year-old executed, dumped in New Sarpy
A car sped away from the end of Vans Lane in New Sarpy on May 25, 2005, leaving the body of a murdered 16-year-old boy in its wake. […]
Obituaries
Walter David Chaisson
Walter David Chaisson, 50, died on Monday, May 26 after a hard fought battle with multiple scleroris. […]
Obituaries
John James Maginnis
John James Maginnis, 66, the publisher of LaPolitics Weekly and LaPolitics.com, and author of “The Last Hayride,” died May 25 in New Orleans. […]
Editorial
When angry, think before you act
By Deacon “G”
Many murders are a result of someone acting out of anger in a misdirected way, often without thinking of the ultimate consequences. This has been going on since the beginning of time, when Cain killed Abel. And yet thousands of years later, we still have not learned our lesson. […]
Editorial
As lawmakers complain, Jindal’s poll numbers climb
By Jeremy Alford
Last week when higher education officials were scrambling to figure out whether they would need a seed loan to cover cash-flow payments, Gov. Bobby Jindal was in New York attending a meeting of the Republican Governor’s Association. The following day, when the Appropriations Committee passed a $75 million supplemental bill to re-balance the current fiscal year budget, he was in Florida speaking to the American Federation for Children. […]
Government
Hurricane season is straight ahead
The Atlantic hurricane season for 2014, which begins Sunday, is predicted to be almost average.
That means almost nothing. […]
Crime
Sheriff’s Reports 5-29-2014
•Charlotte M. Simmons, 50, of 126 Mott St. in Des Allemands, was arrested on May 21 and charged with possession of crack cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia and obstruction of justice. […]
Baseball
DHS player’s heart defect discovered in routine sports physical
Halfway through his senior year at Destrehan High School, Brock Benedetto was preparing for the upcoming baseball season and had no idea that he would soon be faced with the terrifying prospect of having to undergo open-heart surgery. […]
Business
St. Rose trade school expands to accommodate industry job boom
A local trade school is expanding their St. Rose campus to accommodate a boom in students looking to fill thousands of positions currently open in skilled construction trades. […]
