March 13, 2024 Joe Ramiro Elizondo Jr., 39, Texas City, TX: hit and run, driving while intoxicated (first offense), no liability insurance, possession of schedule IV. March 14, 2024 Tron Burras, 28, Algiers: fugitive warrant, possession of schedule I controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute (2 counts).

March 18, 2024 Suit #68782, Tenel Curtis, Tenal Curtis vs. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Dylan McDaniel, Damages.

On Thursday, March 21, the Plaquemines Association of Business & Industry (PABI) held its annual “State of the Parish'' address, allowing parish president Keith Hinkley the opportunity to provide business leaders and parish officials in attendance an overview of Plaquemines’s economy, infrastructure, various community programs, and how the future may develop.

South Plaquemines Elementary School counselor Kim Matalamaki and Belle Chasse High School head custodian Terry Hicks have been nominated for National Life Group’s 202324 LifeChanger of the Year award. Sponsored by the National Life Group Foundation, LifeChanger of the Year recognizes and rewards the very best K-12 educators and school district employees across the United States who are making a difference in the lives of students by exemplifying excellence, positive influence and leadership.

The recent trend among Progressive prosecutors is to focus their attention on the perpetrators of crimes and not the victims or enforcing state laws. They have a greater concern for the well-being of criminals than protecting society at large.

The Louisiana legislature just finished the special session on crime spending several million dollars to come up with more ways to reduce the violence that continues to plague the Bayou state. Their solution seems to be to stick it to the convicts currently serving time, but ignoring the growing wave of juvenile crime that continues to spread throughout both big cities and rural areas alike.

Early Voting is taking place each day until Saturday, March 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the Presidential Preference Primary Election which is on Saturday, March 23. State Central Committee Representatives for the Republican and Democrat Parties are also on the ballot.

Deadline for accepting applications for participation in the April 2024 Food Distribution Program is March 29, 2024. Plaquemines Parish residents who have not yet applied for or completed an application/declaration form of eligibility can do so now or before the above mentioned date.