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• Closure of Shell's Convent refinery causing concern for neighboring businesses Play Video

  November 5, 2020 10:12 PM

  ST. JAMES PARISH - Thursday's news that Shell would be shuttering its Convent plant after more than 50 years of operation left employees and business owners shell-shocked. "We just are getting in the door there, with this location, and you know, what a blow," Kyle Smith of Pot &... more »

• Residents ordering junkyard to be cleaned up Play Video

  February 28, 2019 6:48 PM

  CONVENT - One man's treasure is another man's trash. At least that's what one property owner in Convent says. Calvin White contacted 2 On Your Side months ago about a property that he calls a junkyard. After multiple calls and meetings with people at the parish level, White says... more »

• Convent man sentenced to 15 years after indecent behavior with a juvenile

  September 6, 2017 10:16 AM

  CONVENT- A man charged with indecent behavior with a juvenile in 2014 was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor with credit for time served. On Tuesday, Jermaine White entered a guilty plea after an agreement with prosecutors. White was arrested in October 2014 for touching a 10-year-old... more »

• Anheuser-Busch to deliver cans of drinking water to tornado victims

  March 2, 2016 12:03 PM

  BATON ROUGE – Anheuser-Busch announced Wednesday that the company is partnering with the American Red Cross to deliver drinking water to victims recovering from last week’s tornadoes. Anheuser-Busch said its Georgia brewery will deliver more than 50,000 cans of emergency water to the Louisiana Capital Area Chapter of the... more »

• Red Cross providing mobile aid station for storm relief

  February 29, 2016 4:31 PM

  CONVENT – Red Cross disaster relief workers are still on the ground in Convent and other areas affected by last week’s severe weather. According to the Red Cross, volunteers served over 1,600 meals Saturday between lunch and dinner to residents in Assumption, Livingston, St. James and St. John the... more »

• Football star Jarvis Landry surveys damage in his hometown of Convent Play Video

  February 25, 2016 5:31 PM

  CONVENT - Former LSU Football star and current Miami Dolphins Wide Receiver Jarvis Landry surveyed damaged in his hometown of Convent Thursday. The football player heard about the damage and knew he had to come home. A warm embrace and hugs helped people smile in the storm ravaged... more »

• Coroner releases names of Convent RV park tornado victims

  February 25, 2016 11:33 AM

  NEW ORLEANS - The St. James Parish Coroner has released the names of those killed in a tornado that ripped through an RV park during Tuesday’s bout of severe weather. 59-year-old David Eugene Swann, of Satsuma, Alabama and 51-year-old Scott Ellis of North Carolina died Tuesday. St. James Parish... more »

• Residents in Convent credit their faith for saving their lives

  February 24, 2016 5:44 PM

  CONVENT - Residents in Convent spent their Wednesday picking up the pieces and trying to salvage items from their homes. It comes after a tornado swept through the area reducing homes to rubble in a matter of seconds. "I'm thankful," Wallace, a Convent resident said. "Thankful to be alive!"... more »

• One person still unaccounted for after search of damaged RV park; see video here Play Video

  February 24, 2016 11:18 AM

  CONVENT - Authorities say only one person is still unaccounted for after a tornado passed over an RV park in St. James Parish, flipping trailers and killing two people Tuesday afternoon. Aerial video of the damage at the St. James RV park. #lawx pic.twitter.com/OkRpGVXsSV — Louisiana GOHSEP (@GOHSEP)... more »

• 2 confirmed dead, 30 hurt after tornado rips through St. James Parish RV park Play Video

  February 23, 2016 5:50 PM

  CONVENT - Two people have been confirmed dead and 30 people were injured at the scene of a trailer park in St. James Parish that was hit by a tornado Tuesday afternoon. UPDATE: There are people unaccounted for after storm kills people in St. James Parish Tuesday. —... more »