Bridge City News

Expansion of juvenile jail suggested

Times-Picayune - Thu Oct 09

A potential expansion of the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center to include a new $13 million facility to house, for profit, juvenile inmates from other parts of the state was discussed Wednesday by the ...

Justice of peace draws five

Times-Picayune - Fri Sep 26

Five political novices are vying for the vacant justice of the peace seat for Jefferson Parish's Second Justice Court after a two-term incumbent decided to retire.

Fema Ok's millions for drain clean-out

L'Observateur Newspaper - Fri Sep 19

Editor and Publisher LAPLACE St. John Parish officials have inked a deal that will get every water drain line in the entire parish pressure cleaned and vacuumed out.

Update on road closures

Orange Leader - Mon Sep 15

Jefferson County: Roadways with flooding: IH 10 at Hwy 73 - Barricades and Cones are out : Location does not have law enforcement officers Orange County: The Rainbow Bridge is CLOSED due to high water.

2 drowning victims identified

Times-Picayune - Sun Sep 14

New Orleans coroner's investigators have publicly identified the bodies of two men discovered in the Mississippi River in separate incidents within the past two-and-a-half weeks.

Bridge City latest to mandate curfew

The Beaumont Enterprise - Fri Sep 12

Bridge City officials have ordered a mandatory dusk to dawn curfew for the city until further notice.

Still some confusion at West Bank food stamp center

NOLA.com - Thu Sep 11

Some confusion continued this morning at the disaster food stamp site at the John Alario Center in Westwego.

Ike evacuation order in Jefferson, Orange counties

KATC-TV Lafayette - Thu Sep 11

A mandatory evacuation order has been issued for Jefferson and Orange counties due to the threat of Hurricane Ike.

Home is where the work is

Times-Picayune - Thu Sep 04

After making their way home a day earlier from their havens from Hurricane Gustav, West Jefferson residents packed the few open grocery stores, gas stations, restaurants and other businesses in an effort to ...

Jefferson County Deputies Head to Louisiana

WVTM-TV Birmingham - Thu Sep 04

While dozens of Hurricane Gustav evacuees here in Birmingham are waiting to return home, local sheriff's deputies are headed to Louisiana to lend a helping hand.