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Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 9:28 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“We had to raise our voice to the heavens and hopes that this is historical wrong of 10-2 jury verdicts would be overturned tomorrow,” said Fox Rich.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 11:03 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
The draft, if made into law would immediately make abortions illegal in Louisiana. For some generations, this is the second time in their life to see this emotionally charged debate on a national scale.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 9:54 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
As a former prosecutor and New Orleans independent police monitor, Hutson was labeled as the progressive candidate, managing to beat out the 17-year incumbent, Marlin Gusman in a December runoff.
Updated: May. 1, 2022 at 10:14 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
As the city starts to enjoy a “return to normal”, fentanyl overdoses in the city are also on the rise.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 4:50 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
Crews are still searching the Mississippi River for three children nearly a week after family says they slipped in.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 6:19 AM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
A witness who saw others attempting to resuscitate a 3-year-old girl fatally shot in the French Quarter on Tuesday (April 27) said it was 'the worst thing I've seen in this city.'
Updated: Apr. 24, 2022 at 9:33 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
A terrifying night turned into a tearful morning as family members began to realize their little ones may not come home.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 9:41 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
Restaurateurs and restaurant owners say it’s great to get diners back in the dining rooms, but without workers and rising costs they’re having to get creative to handle the huge demand.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 11:25 AM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
A family's trip to New Orleans was ruined when a woman was injured in a shooting near their Airbnb.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2022 at 11:24 PM CDT
|By Ken Daley and Amanda Roberts
FEMA is proposing using a 5.74-acre site at 3501 Houma Blvd. in Metairie to place an office and 28 trailers to provide temporary housing for up to 18 months for people still displaced by storm damage from Hurricane Ida last August.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 10:27 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“I highly doubt it. Devin is military trained. And Devin wouldn’t just pull a gun to just flash it. You know if I feel like if he’s threatened, he’s gonna use it,’ said McBride.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 3:09 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent and Amanda Roberts
A New Orleans man who originally claimed to have shot another in a hookah lounge parking lot in self-defense has been arrested after cell phone video contradicts his claims, police say.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 10:17 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“It’s hard to think about the fact that everything she went through right here in this area,” said Danielle Duffourc.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 10:24 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
The Bywater Neighborhood Association says the development team, led by Joe Jaeger still intends to take it over, but an application seems to have stalled with the Housing Authority of New Orleans.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2022 at 9:52 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“I saw the girl because she had just had a knife pulled on her and they tried to take her car and her girlfriend even said she was caressing her and saying it’s ok you’re alive they just got your car, it was devastating, it it’s too close to home and too many times,” said Etheredge.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 at 10:20 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“I would have to think that somehow somewhere because it was in such a small area. That there may be some correlation… it just brings the fear even more we’re all scared to go outside,” said another neighbor.
Updated: Mar. 26, 2022 at 10:28 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
Little by little, mounds of debris pile up along the roadway instead of strewn across Arabi.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 10:31 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
The NOPD took a report of a simple robbery near the corner of North Rampart and Touro street Monday morning.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2022 at 11:09 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“It was dragging a lady by the seatbelt outside the car the door had closed on the seatbelt, and she was stuck in it… I got out of my vehicle screaming please stop other neighbors were also screaming,” said Ecker.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2022 at 9:48 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
As new parents, Dominique Thompson and her husband were up late Sunday morning when she received a text message around 2 a.m.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2022 at 6:48 AM CDT
|By Ken Daley and Amanda Roberts
A man was fatally shot in the chest inside a Bourbon Street business early Sunday (March 20), New Orleans police said.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 9:43 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
As Covid numbers continue to improve in the state, it means more students can take off their masks in the classroom.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2022 at 10:36 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“If you’re giving these bonuses for past services, it’s unconstitutional. And so, it may not be legal. Now that the city’s position is the purpose of these bonuses is for retention, which is something in the future. So you have two opposing views,” said Doug Sunseri.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2022 at 9:24 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“What we can say is that the people that started coming into town or started, you know, going to big parties in mid-February don’t seem to have been causing more infections that we’re picking up. So that’s exciting,” said Avegno.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2022 at 11:14 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
It’s a stark contrast to the crowds of 2020, but two years later the Irish Channel Parade revelers filled the streets, standing shoulder to shoulder again.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2022 at 10:26 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
The city’s administration drummed up a plan to recruit and retain more first responders with bonuses, begging the civil service commission to approve the plan.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2022 at 9:37 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
After months and hundreds of complaints of brown water flowing through their taps, Magnolia Water system told customers to flush their lines at home.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2022 at 10:16 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
“We’re a first class destination city and we want to keep that safe,” said King.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2022 at 10:13 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Nelwyn Fainwater says nearly every weekend employees and customers park in the convenient Crescent Park parking lot only to find some personal items missing and a car window to replace.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2022 at 10:13 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Owner of the Phoenix Bar, Tracy Deroche remembers getting a frantic call from one of his bartenders while the sun was still up on Lundi Gras.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2022 at 10:32 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Lana Martin carries a photo of her mother, Galina with her everywhere she goes. It’s now been more than a week since Russian forces invaded her native country of Ukraine, not knowing from day to day if she’ll ever speak with her mother again.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 10:20 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Staring down a bathtub full of water, Laegel says it’s anything but relaxing.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 10:41 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Piles and piles and piles of shattered glass litter North Peters St. along Crescent City park, but residents and visitors alike have come to accept this as commonplace.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2022 at 11:00 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Hosting the job fair, Walt Leger with New Orleans and Company says the hospitality industry took an undeniable hit during the pandemic.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 10:23 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
“A lot of our fans are very proud of us and they’re they’re proud of the things that we represent. To see that the sound the sound system that brings the music to the streets was missing was a huge shock,” said Brodrecht.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 9:27 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
"I’m blaming the road because we saw him go down, but they can’t figure out how to get into Lakeview anymore because of the way things are discombobulated at the moment,” said Terry.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2022 at 10:48 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
A busy Friday evening and Frenchman street was already a-buzz as it’s the official/ unofficial start to the parading season.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2022 at 5:34 AM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
A new levee system will protect thousands of people and their property in six river parishes.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2022 at 10:38 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Rental costs across Southeast Louisiana are rising according to the Apartment Association of Greater New Orleans. They point to Ida construction projects, insurance premiums, combined with rising flood and homeowners’ insurance.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 9:46 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Governor Edwards added an investigation led by state lawmakers into his knowledge of the Ronald Greene case would be unnecessary and a witch-hunt, emphasizing how he says he was never involved in the investigation.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2022 at 10:11 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
“He’s a man. So in other words, you had to kill him to take his grandchild from him. You had to kill him to take his grandchild,” said Gentry.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2022 at 11:18 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, the sun was shining on the krewe of Nefertiti, the first float parade of carnival.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2022 at 9:36 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
After a long wait, Louisianans can now bet on their favorite sports teams, scores, and athletes in the palm of their hands.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2022 at 10:54 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Krewe du Vieux leaders weren’t available to talk on camera, but say it’s been a real double whammy: announcing not only their parade route has been modified, but their queen, the city’s health director Dr. Jennifer Avegno says she will no longer ride, but will still reign.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2022 at 10:36 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
It’s been a whirlwind weekend for Jefferson Parish’s newest school board member. She also happens to be the board’s first Latina to sit on the dais.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2022 at 10:36 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Jefferson Parish leaders say they replenished a supply of free Naloxone or Narcan for residents, but supplies are already dwindling again.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 at 10:23 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
“We knew that it was going to be bold, you know, we know that we can be criticized for it. But we also know that at the end of the day, this is the right side of history. And I always want to stand on the right side of history,” said Chambers.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2022 at 10:41 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
“It’s never easy. Especially when you have to start recovering loved ones but it’s something that we are all trained to do,” said Archie Chaisson.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2022 at 10:30 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Since August 2020 when they first opened, COVID has robbed Metairie’s City Bar from hosting any Mardi Gras revelers.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2022 at 10:21 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Video surveillance captured the two suspects pulling on their masks as they approached the man’s car in the corner of the screen, and then he ran.
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