Amanda Roberts
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Amanda is incredibly excited be a part of the Fox 8 News team. She is a Nashville, Tennessee native with strong ties to the New England North; she’s now happy to have made it to what her family and friends refer to as the “Deep South."
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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As the city starts to enjoy a “return to normal”, fentanyl overdoses in the city are also on the rise.
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Crews are still searching the Mississippi River for three children nearly a week after family says they slipped in.
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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.'
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A terrifying night turned into a tearful morning as family members began to realize their little ones may not come home.
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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.
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A family's trip to New Orleans was ruined when a woman was injured in a shooting near their Airbnb.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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“It’s hard to think about the fact that everything she went through right here in this area,” said Danielle Duffourc.
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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.
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“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.
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“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.
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Little by little, mounds of debris pile up along the roadway instead of strewn across Arabi.
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The NOPD took a report of a simple robbery near the corner of North Rampart and Touro street Monday morning.
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“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.
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As new parents, Dominique Thompson and her husband were up late Sunday morning when she received a text message around 2 a.m.
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A man was fatally shot in the chest inside a Bourbon Street business early Sunday (March 20), New Orleans police said.
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As Covid numbers continue to improve in the state, it means more students can take off their masks in the classroom.
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“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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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After months and hundreds of complaints of brown water flowing through their taps, Magnolia Water system told customers to flush their lines at home.
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“We’re a first class destination city and we want to keep that safe,” said King.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Staring down a bathtub full of water, Laegel says it’s anything but relaxing.
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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.
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Hosting the job fair, Walt Leger with New Orleans and Company says the hospitality industry took an undeniable hit during the pandemic.
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“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.
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"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.
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A busy Friday evening and Frenchman street was already a-buzz as it’s the official/ unofficial start to the parading season.
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A new levee system will protect thousands of people and their property in six river parishes.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, the sun was shining on the krewe of Nefertiti, the first float parade of carnival.
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After a long wait, Louisianans can now bet on their favorite sports teams, scores, and athletes in the palm of their hands.
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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.
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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.
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Jefferson Parish leaders say they replenished a supply of free Naloxone or Narcan for residents, but supplies are already dwindling again.
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“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.
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“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.
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Since August 2020 when they first opened, COVID has robbed Metairie’s City Bar from hosting any Mardi Gras revelers.
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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.