• Big addition hailed at Chalmette High
St. Bernard Parish school officials on Friday publicly unveiled the second phase of an ambitious remaking of Chalmette High School, more than four years after Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches filled it with floodwaters.

• Strides trumpeted in St. Bernard
Almost five years after Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaks flooded St. Bernard Parish, the parish's recovery continues to make significant strides, a group of officials said Wednesday.

• Plan to shift money to hospital is urged
Setting up a possible conflict with the parish president, the St. Bernard Parish Council on Tuesday requested that $5 million of the federal money set aside for concrete slab removal instead be shifted to construction of a new parish hospital.

• Louis Wineski Jr., former police juror
Louis Paul Wineski Jr., a longtime recreational coach in New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish and a former member of the St. Bernard Parish Police Jury, died Saturday of cancer. He was 72.

• Land for hospital signed over
After a year of political wrangling and debate about where to build a new hospital in St. Bernard Parish, the parish's hospital board has inked a deal with a local nonprofit group to use a donated piece of land across from Chalmette Battlefield.

• Land for St. Bernard hospital signed over
After a year of political wrangling and debate about where to build a new hospital in St. Bernard Parish, the parish's hospital board has inked a deal with a local nonprofit group to use a donated piece of land across from Chalmette Battlefield.

• St. Bernard hospital land in hand
After a year of political wrangling and debate about where to build a new hospital in St. Bernard Parish, the parish's hospital board has inked a deal with a local nonprofit group to use a donated piece of land across from Chalmette Battlefield.

• 3 fire stations get cash
FEMA has announced an additional $10.9 million in federal aid for three south Louisiana fire stations destroyed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

• St. Bernard sells first 2 empty lots
St. Bernard Parish has signed the first two purchase agreements under the parish's Lot Next Door program.

• Suspect caught purple-handed
There's being caught red-handed and then there's, well . . . being caught purple-handed.

• Couple arrested at Chalmette parade
A St. Bernard Parish couple was arrested at a parade Sunday after being accused of giving a young child a chocolate-flavored alcoholic beverage, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said.

• Couple arrested during parade
A St. Bernard Parish couple was arrested at a parade Sunday after being accused of giving a young child a chocolate-flavored alcoholic beverage, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said.

• Couple arrested during parade
A St. Bernard Parish couple was arrested at a parade Sunday after being accused of giving a young child a chocolate-flavored alcoholic beverage, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said.

• Couple arrested during parade
A St. Bernard Parish couple was arrested at a parade Sunday after being accused of giving a young child a chocolate-flavored alcoholic beverage, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said.

• Police warn of dangers in medicine cabinet
The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office is asking parish residents to turn in prescription medications they no longer need and to safely store their current medications. The initiative is part of its Operation Medicine Cabinet program.

• Seeber bridge pain to start
Residents of the Lower 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish have long had a testy relationship with the various drawbridges spanning the Industrial Canal.