• Land plan for Kenner touted
After eight years and numerous public meetings, a master plan to govern land use in Kenner for the next 20 years comes up for a City Council vote today.

• Bridge over canal finally reopens
Some two decades after a new Kawanee Avenue bridge over Elmwood Canal was added to Jefferson Parish officials' wish list of infrastructure improvements, the bridge has become reality.

• Mayor: Kenner pinching pennies
Kenner has seen many improvements in the past year, but because of the worsening national economy, officials are being frugal for the future, Mayor Ed Muniz said in his State of the City speech Tuesday.

• Show will go on again at Copeland's home
The first Christmas without Al Copeland will not be the last for his unbounded display of holiday lights and baubles.

• Murder suspect is captured in L.A.
Police in Los Angeles have apprehended Joseph Cammatte, the second man accused in a fatal, drug-related attack at a Metairie house this month, authorities said Monday.

• Priest's chalice stolen from church
Burglars took a priest's chalice from a Kenner Catholic church this past weekend, along with money in an offering box, police said Monday.

• Union sues Jeff after data hits Web
Its east bank firefighters union sued Jefferson Parish on Monday for exposing the Social Security numbers of firefighters on a public Web site.

• Squabble over RV parking may bring about new code
A feud between neighbors over a huge mobile home parked at Severn Avenue and 49th Street in Metairie might prompt Jefferson Parish officials to reconsider the codes governing vehicle sizes on residential properties.

• Parish budget settles back down
Hurricane Katrina's stamp on Jefferson Parish's annual budgets has been all but wiped away from the spending proposal for 2009.

• EAST JEFFERSON POLICE REPORTS
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• Cars, home broken into at River Forest
A guest in River Forest apartments in Covington looted five cars and a home before being busted by police, authorities said Friday.

• Jeff reserve deputy is arrested
A reserve deputy with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has been booked with pornography involving juveniles, authorities said Friday.

• Rezoning meeting delayed
A special session of the St. Tammany Parish Zoning Commission scheduled for Tuesday night to discuss a rezoning proposal for the southwestern region of the parish has been postponed.

• Murder, suicide bind families in grief
Just hours after Jason Alexander shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and then committed suicide next to her in the front yard of her Kenner home, many of Alicia Fruge's relatives gathered midday Thursday to share their grief.

• Orleans Levee District millage boosted
Regional levee commissioners increased the Orleans Levee District millage rate by 13.5 percent Thursday to collect an additional $2.9 million in taxes next year, additional money that will barely enable the New Orleans district to balance its books, officials said.

• 3 booked in March kidnap, killing
Three people have been arrested in the March kidnapping and killing of Terrance Pinkley, and investigators are searching for a fourth suspect, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

• Union surveys teachers ahead of talks
With less than eight months remaining in its contract with the School Board, the Jefferson Parish teachers union has begun talks with teachers to solicit their comments on salaries, class size and other issues.

• Social Security numbers go on Web
A public relations firm hired by Jefferson Parish briefly posted the Social Security numbers of many east bank firefighters on a public Web site last week.

• River Ridge man booked with May rape
A River Ridge man was arrested Monday and booked with forcible rape, authorities said.

• Man gets prison time for online obscenity
A Missouri man was sentenced to 15 months in jail for obscene online communications with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl, but who really was an undercover Kenner detective, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office said Wednesday.

• Man who misspent SBA loans sentenced
A Metairie man who used Katrina repair loans from the federal government to buy a car, a boat and a house was sentenced Wednesday to four months in prison.

• Kenner assisted living center sought
Developers are proposing an assisted living complex for elderly people at the former site of the Redwood Park apartments in Kenner.

• Man held in pair of fake bombs
A security guard has been arrested on federal charges of twice constructing fake bombs and then calling in threats to police and the Kenner hotel where he worked.

• Kenner, airport end road feud
Fourteen years after agreeing to the idea, Kenner and the Louis Armstrong International Airport are close to the next step in the airport's plans to widen Aberdeen Street from two lanes to four.

• Vandals damage dozens of cars
Vandals used rocks and brick fragments to smash windows on 26 vehicles in northwest Metairie, and investigators are seeking tips on finding the culprits.

• Airport security director named
Larry Austin, a former Florida Highway Patrol commander, has been named federal security director for Louis Armstrong International Airport, the Transportation and Security Administration announced Monday.

• Camera helps nab 2 suspects
After being burglarized repeatedly, Vincent Costanza finally turned the tables Wednesday, alerting Kenner police to a burglary in progress at his scrap yard.

• Man beaten with lamp, dies
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office was searching Friday night for a New Orleans man who they say crept into a Metairie home through an unlocked door Thursday evening with an accomplice and savagely beat two men with a table lamp, killing one of them.

• Scores for Jeff schools delayed as state recalculates
BATON ROUGE -- As it released new performance scores for almost every public school system in the state Friday, the Department of Education withheld most of those for Jefferson Parish.

• Kenner auction case gets criminal
Kenner's civil case against two Brooklyn, Miss., auctioneers has turned criminal now that authorities have obtained warrants to arrest them for keeping a half-million dollars from the sale of surplus municipal property.

• Connick squelches rumors he will replace Letten
Is Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick Jr. in line to be the next U.S. attorney in New Orleans?

• EAST JEFFERSON POLICE REPORTS
The following were reported to law enforcement authorities:

• Jeff board defers vote on magnet grades
If a gifted student scores a D or an F in Latin or physical education, but has Bs and As in every other subject, should that student automatically get booted from a Jefferson Parish magnet school?

• Kenner council toughens law on building truck stops
A unanimous Kenner City Council on Thursday restricted where trucks stops can be built.

• Workers accidentally damage sewer line
The 900 block of Vintage Drive in Kenner became a mucky mess Thursday after workers installing a fiber optic cable for AT&T damaged a major sewer line.

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