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• Causeway is down to one lane
Causeway Boulevard will be down to one lane in each direction today between Interstate 10 and Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie because of construction.

• Dad, son booked in fraud case
A father and son wanted for allegedly running a roofing scam on an elderly Old Jefferson man were arrested Thursday evening in Gonzales.

• Jeff school official testifies on cleanup
Jefferson Parish School Board member Mark Morgan testified before a federal grand jury Friday about the cleanup work that Certified Cleaning and Restoration, based in Elmwood, performed for the school system in the early days after Hurricane Katrina.

• Metairie student stands out in state competition
Even in a school of outstanding students, Injee Hong, 10, stands out.

• Yenni's claim about job verified
Jefferson Parish officials Friday verified Kenner mayoral candidate Mike Yenni's statement that he worked as a paralegal in the parish attorney's office after he graduated from high school.

• Council looks for landfill expert
Faced with the unique landscape of a landmark landfill deal they approved in June, Jefferson Parish Council members have extended their search for a very specific brand of consultant to analyze the agreement: one who understands the permutations of budget forecasting as well as it does the engineering of a massive garbage dump.

• Catholic conference starts Friday
The Southern Regional Conference of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal will begin Friday at the Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner.

• Catholic conference starts Friday
The Southern Regional Conference of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal will begin Friday at the Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner.

• divine and delicious
Since Delores Plaia was a small child, helping to prepare St. Joseph's altars has been a part of her life.

• Document disputes Yenni resume
In his campaign for Kenner mayor, Mike Yenni has said he worked after college as a paralegal in the Jefferson Parish attorney's office. He said it was for about 2 1/2 months in late 1998 and early 1999.

• Fake heist staged at bar, JPSO says
Authorities have arrested a Metairie bartender who acted out a fake robbery for barroom surveillance cameras, complete with an accomplice who posed as the stickup man, according a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrest report.

• Free health fair Saturday
Kenner's Community Development Department will host its fourth annual Community Awareness and Health Fair on Saturday.

• Jeff board to revisit copier brouhaha
The great photocopier controversy in the Jefferson Parish public school system, a tale of questionable contracts, wasted money and political connections, will be the subject of a special meeting of the School Board next week.

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• Kenner kids collect food for Second Harvest
The K-Kids Club members at Walter Schneckenburger Elementary School in Kenner have been very busy collecting food for Second Harvest Food Bank. Their recent drive resulted in a donation of 1,261 pounds of nonperishable items to the local food bank.

• Outdated flood maps, data bemoaned
Flood maps that don't reflect actual risks and computer models using outdated or incomplete data are products of a balkanized system that hampers emergency planning and response, users of that system said Wednesday.

• Yenni ahead in money hunt
Kenner mayoral candidate Mike Yenni has been raising money at four times the pace of his sole opponent, Phil Capitano, but Capitano has been outspending Yenni by a 2-to-1 margin, according to their latest reports to the state Ethics Administration.

• Boys are far behind girls in reading, study finds
Boys are gaining ground in reading proficiency but still trail girls nationally and in Louisiana, says a new gender-gap study released Tuesday.

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• Explicit photos put man in jail
A Metairie man has been arrested for sending explicit photographs over the Internet to a detective posing as an underage boy, Kenner police said.

• Metairie woman admits forgery
A Metairie businesswoman admitted in federal court Tuesday that she forged the official seal of the White House Office of Management and Budget on letters purporting to award grants to potential customers.

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POLITICAL FORUMS

• Suspect in Jeff shooting sought
Authorities have identified Carlos Thomas of New Orleans as one of the shooters who opened fire during a Metairie block party Sunday night, injuring a baby and two others.

• THE CANDIDATE: Kenner Mayor
Mike Yenni

• Veterans lane closing today
The work on the Interstate 10 interchange at Causeway Boulevard in Metairie is creeping north and disrupting Veterans Memorial Boulevard traffic.

• 2 schools locked down during chase
Officials briefly shut down two Metairie schools Monday morning after an armed man driving a stolen truck led authorities on a chase, then abandoned the vehicle in the parking lot of one of the schools.

• Bank files suit against Capitano
Kenner mayoral candidate Phil Capitano, target of a foreclosure lawsuit filed in January, said Monday he has brought his mortgage payments up to date.

• Block party shooting injures 3
Three people, including an 11-month-old baby, were shot Sunday night after a scuffle broke out during a Metairie block party, authorities said.

• Jeff Parish official loses his job
Before he lost his job March 3, Steve Mortillaro was collecting $11 an hour as a lawyer at the beck and call of Jefferson Parish's stoplight camera program, he said Monday.

• Local St. Joseph's altars planned
Each year, groups of volunteers, families, churches and organizations prepare magnificent feasts and decorate lavish altars to honor St. Joseph's Day. The annual tradition began in Sicily in gratitude to St. Joseph for answering prayers for deliverance from famine. Many will turn out to view the elaborate displays and share in thanksgiving.

• Luncheon, auction to benefit Cenacle
The Cenacle Retreat House is gearing up for its annual benefit luncheon March 21 at Chateau Golf and Country Club, 3600 Chateau Blvd., Kenner.

• Parish school integration pioneers gather for luncheon
Lena Dandridge-Houston will never forget that day in 1965 when she stepped off the bus onto the grounds of Riverdale High School.

• Parish school integration pioneers gather for luncheon
Lena Dandridge-Houston will never forget that day in 1965 when she stepped off the bus onto the grounds of Riverdale High School.

• Ulster Project gives youths peaceful setting
Plans are already being made for the New Orleans Ulster Project.

• Women's self-defense course in April
The Kenner Police Department will sponsor a self-defense course for women on April 5, 7 and 8 in Kenner.

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• Foul play ruled out in death
A Jefferson man whose body was found in his car in a Kenner parking lot likely died of natural causes, Kenner police said Friday.

• Kenner 'in good shape,' Muniz says
When they're running for re-election, incumbents try to make everything sound great, while challengers make everything sound horrible.

• Problems with bids hinder levee work
Bid challenges continue to hamstring a major hurricane flood-reduction project in St. Bernard Parish, where a second formal protest was filed this week by the joint venture that originally won a floodwall construction contract there last fall, then lost it two weeks ago to a competitor who filed the first protest.

• School copiers draw controversy
A controversy involving photocopy machines in Jefferson Parish schools has School Board members accusing vendors of cheating the public out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and some vendors saying board members are unfairly excluding them from the school market.

• Suspect sought in auto burglaries
Authorities are trying to identify a woman caught on a surveillance camera while burglarizing three vehicles in Old Metairie early Wednesday morning.

• Kenner at-large position draws 2
When electrician Penny Frame signs up for electrical permits at Kenner City Hall, she overhears homeowners or contractors confused about the paperwork and process. That's got to end, she said.

• Plumber gets 27 months for kickbacks
Harry Labiche, a Metairie plumber convicted for his role in a $295,000 kickback scheme on the Interstate 10 widening project, was sentenced Thursday to 27 months in prison.

• THE CANDIDATES: Kenner city council, at-large division A
Michele Branigan

• Churches honor community legends
It was standing room only when the family, friends and congregations of five Kenner churches came together recently at New Mount Bethel Baptist Church to honor "three living legends" of the Lincoln Manor community at the first "Celebration of Life."

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east jefferson police reports

• Kenner council race cordial
If anything stands out about the race for the 2nd District seat on the Kenner City Council, it is the absence of controversy.

• Officer guilty in immigrant transport
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been convicted of helping three illegal aliens move to Metairie, where one of them got a job and enrolled her children in a Jefferson Parish public school.

• Second suspect faces robbery charge
Jefferson Parish authorities are prepared to book a second man in a recent Metairie robbery, who is being held in New Orleans on charges involving a series of home invasions there last month.

• St. Elizabeth school receives accreditation
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School in Kenner recently received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement.

• Suspect booked with Metairie arson
A New Orleans man was arrested and booked with aggravated arson in a fire last year at a Metairie apartment.

• Theater will present mysterious comedy
Roland Butch Caire will direct Rivertown Repertory Theatre's production of the comedy-mystery "Murdered to Death."

• Theater will present mysterious comedy
Roland Butch Caire will direct Rivertown Repertory Theatre's production of the comedy-mystery "Murdered to Death."

• THE CANDIDATES: KENNER CITY COUNCIL 2ND DISTRICT
William H. "Bill" Schwertz

• Who Dat celebration draws 200
Organizers of the Pakistan Community Association recently held a Who Dat Victory Celebration at Woodlake Club in Kenner. More than 200 gathered to celebrate the New Orleans Saints' Super Bowl victory."We had a great Who Dat victory celebration," said Syed Ali, president of the association. "The hall was decorated black and gold, along with Saints flags, beads and Saints paintings made by children."

• Who Dat celebration draws 200
Organizers of the Pakistan Community Association recently held a Who Dat Victory Celebration at Woodlake Club in Kenner. More than 200 gathered to celebrate the New Orleans Saints' Super Bowl victory."We had a great Who Dat victory celebration," said Syed Ali, president of the association. "The hall was decorated black and gold, along with Saints flags, beads and Saints paintings made by children."

• Kenner women battling for seat
The two candidates for the 4th District seat on the Kenner City Council have a strikingly different view of the district's landscape.

• THE CANDIDATES Kenner City Council 4th District
Arita Bohannan

• Kenner hopefuls differ in strategy
In the race for the 5th District seat on the Kenner City Council, the incumbent approaches the city's issues with detailed ideas about seeking grants, shuffling budget items and launching improvement projects, while the challenger presents a sweeping strategy of addressing problems through an overall boost in economic development.

• Muniz aide filling his war chest
Mike Yenni hopes to restock his campaign treasury today with a $1,000-per-head fundraiser hosted by Kenner Mayor Ed Muniz and Police Chief Steve Caraway, while his opponent in the Kenner mayor race, Phil Capitano, is relying on less on big events and more on people "who aren't politically connected."

• THE CANDIDATES Kenner City Council 5th District
kent Denapolis

• Mass, retreat, fest among local offerings
The monthly Peace Mass sponsored by the Mary Group at St. Rita Catholic Church, in cooperation with the MIR Group, will be celebrated Thursday. This event is held each month at 7118 Jefferson Highway, Harahan.

• Political forum will be Thursday
The Chateau Estates Lakefront Civic Association will hold a political forum Thursday at 7:30 at the Pavilion at Kenner City Park, 3800 Loyola Drive, Kenner. Candidates for Kenner mayor, the Division A City Council at-large seat and the 4th District City Council seat will be on hand to address the attendees.

• Send in St. Joseph altar information
In observance of the feast of St. Joseph on March 19, Roman Catholic residents throughout East Jefferson will build altars and share blessings and thanks.