Crime
Woman charged with breaking into home, threatening owner with broom
A St. Rose woman was arrested on Monday after allegedly entering another woman’s house and threatening her with a broomstick. […]
Articles by Michelle Stuckey
Events & Announcements
150 arts and crafts booths sell wares at Destrehan Fest
The 39th Annual Destrehan Plantation Fall Festival will kick off on Saturday with what organizers hope will be a record-breaking crowd. […]
Health
Family stunned by son’s brain tumor, friends chip in to help
Co-workers and friends know Stacy and Jay Sessions of Destrehan as being “the nicest people you would ever want to know,” but tragedy struck them last month when their 8-year-old son Brady was diagnosed with a temporal lobe brain tumor. […]
Lifestyles
Cruising for a good cause
For kids like Adam Linebarger, life can be difficult. Adam, 7, has Spina Bifida, a birth defect that has no cure and a wide range of conditions associated with it including mobility impairments, bowel and bladder complications, tendonitis and learning disabilities.
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Lifestyles
LES teacher says test scores, race reason students avoiding school
According to a Luling Elementary School teacher, students are avoiding the school not only because of its low scores on state testing, but also because of race.
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News
Luling Elementary: 123 students should attend but go elsewhere
Over 15 percent of the students who are supposed to attend Luling Elementary School are attending a different school after obtaining a waiver from the district.
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Lifestyles
Sweet Pumpkin
The self-proclaimed “pumpkin church” will host its 12th Annual Pumpkin Patch and 9th Annual Fall Family Festival this weekend.
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Fishing / Hunting
Cast a line for charity
When Destrehan High School senior D.J. Rebstock thinks about giving back to his community, he thinks of his grandmother.
His grandmother, Christina Sternberger Curtis, was a local realtor at Latter and Blum Realtors until she passed away six years ago at the age of 53 after a battle against breast cancer. […]
News
Shorter Christmas break only major change in proposed school calendar
Students and their parents in St. Charles Parish will see a few changes to the calendar for the 2011-2012 school year.
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