Jefferson Parish

Despite being caught in a 2021 video ripping out Shantel Arnold’s hair, sheriff’s Deputy Julio Alvarado failed to report the incident. A new law authored by Arnold’s attorney will mandate excessive-force reporting for all law enforcement agencies.

Over the weekend, Erica Johnson, an urban farmer in New Orleans, won the Board of Supervisors seat for the Crescent Soil and Water Conservation District. Many polling locations ran out of ballots, frustrating voters.

Voters will choose a member of the Board of Supervisors for the Crescent Soil and Water Conservation District for the first time in the district’s history.

A New Orleans resident has filed a lawsuit against the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, alleging that a group of deputies “unnecessarily and unlawfully” approached, detained and beat him up outside of a gas station in Terrytown last year.

Personnel with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office fell for an online scheme that cost the agency more than $1.1 million, according to an internal audit made public Monday.

With strong winds in the forecast on Tuesday, Mardi Gras parades in Jefferson Parish have been canceled, and two parades in New Orleans have adjusted their plans, WDSU and Fox 8 reported.

Much of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi remain under a tornado watch until 8 p.m. with severe weather in the forecast Wednesday.

With temperatures dipping below the freezing mark, city and parish officials have started opening warming shelters around Louisiana.

According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ latest projections, released Thursday, the “saltwater wedge” isn’t forecast to reach New Orleans’ west bank until late November — a month later than earlier projections suggested.

Less than two weeks into the official start of summer, record-breaking heat has already swamped Louisiana and much of the South. And forecasters say the dangerous heat will likely continue.