Jefferson Parish

Diesel prices have climbed to more than $6 per gallon, creating significant challenges for farmers and timber operators during the harvest season.

Drivers in New Orleans are paying $3.97, while those in Jefferson Parish and the North Shore are paying $4.01.

The American Sugarcane League issued the following statement regarding the state of emergency.

Louisiana sugarcane farmers are receiving much-needed relief from the record high diesel prices.

The child is believed to have fallen into the water of a murky and swampy canal, His mother immediately dove in to try and save her son but to no avail as she seems to have lost sight of him almost immediately in the dirty water.

Authorities almost immediately began building a dam to start draining the canal in search of Ellis' remains and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said the dam would take one day to be completed.

However, with the dam completed and after six days of relentless searching with no results, the underwater search was called off.

The decision came after a temporary earthen dam built to help drain a 500-foot section of the swamp had been a complete failure when the dam broke.

We utilized the equipment we had in front of us and the volunteers we had in place to put a good plan together.

I think we accomplished a lot.

search would continue in a way as it was stated by authorities involved that it would be a passive one from that point on this meant the authorities would still keep boats in the water looking for disturbances in the duckweed and on the surface but will not be employing active techniques such as sonar equipment or divers unless we see something that indicates they are needed during active operations we typically have divers in the water constantly searching along with the sonar equipment when it's available said the jefferson parish sheriff's office During the active search, the authorities and search teams were able to check alligator dens using the sonar equipment.

Our job is to put the pieces together and figure out the whole picture.

But right now we're outside of the political jurisdiction of New Orleans, Orleans Parish.

We're in Jefferson Parish on Highway 90, which is on the way to Dubai.

Yes.

And this place has been here since 1946, and you really shouldn't come to New Orleans without coming here.

Yes, I'm John Giegenheimer.

I am the elected clerk of court in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

That jurisdiction straddles New Orleans.

It's, uh, in fact, if you fly into New Orleans and New Orleans, international airport is in Jefferson parish.

So it's a very close connection.

New Orleans is known as the crescent is the crescent city shaped like a crescent.

Right, right, right, right.

But the whole thing was like a parody of a South African folktale about the Jefferson Connors, meaning Jefferson Parish people, and how they built Jefferson Parish all with their own white hands and dug ditches that only lily white sewage flowed through.

And it was really great and really sharp.

And Bunny really didn't care if you didn't get the joke.

But right now we're outside of the political jurisdiction of New Orleans, Orleans Parish.

We're in Jefferson Parish on Highway 90, which is on the way to Dubai.

Yes.

And this place has been here since 1946, and you really shouldn't come to New Orleans without coming here.