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Three people running in judicial race for March 2023 election in New Orleans area election

Newly elected to a parishwide post, Jefferson Parish Council member Jennifer Van Vrancken accused the police chiefs of Harahan and Gretna of intimidating her supporters ahead of the Oct. 14

Bella Fontenelles body was found stuffed in a chlorine bucket on her mothers property on April 26, the day after a woman was caught on surveillance camera pulling the bucket in a wagon.

The child's death is being investigated by Harahan police and Jefferson Parish deputies

Investigators believe the woman killed the girl at her home late Tuesday night, placed the corpse inside a lidded 10-gallon chlorine bucket, then pulled the bucket in a wagon to place it outside the home of the girl’s biological mother.

The arrested woman is the father's girlfriend, but officials do not believe he, nor the child's mother was involved in any way.

HARAHAN, La. — The Jefferson Parish Sheriffs Office has arrested the woman they believe killed a 6-year-old girl in Harahan in a crime that stunned the entire community, Sheriff Joe

43-year-old Hannah Landon of Harahan has been arrested and charged in the death of her boyfriend's six-year-ol...