Mykal Vincent
Digital Content Executive Producer
New Orleans, La.
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Mykal Vincent started his digital news career in Baton Rouge and has moved to New Orleans in January of 2020 as the Digital News Supervisor for FOX 8.
Contact Mykal via email at mykal.vincent@fox8live.com.
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Updated: Sep. 2, 2023 at 8:04 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
An EF-0 tornado touched down in Kenner on Saturday
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 11:03 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Lou Hedley’s journey to the NFL has been nothing short of inspiring.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2023 at 4:14 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Kamara will have to do community service and pay $100,000 to the victim for medical bills.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2023 at 2:23 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Zion Williamson's stepfather appeared to respond to recent social media gossip and innuendo.
Updated: Jun. 6, 2023 at 3:20 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
The New Orleans Pelicans family is growing!
Updated: Jun. 6, 2023 at 11:55 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
The presence of two adult Northern Snakeheads was reportedly captured on video in Concordia Parish
Updated: Jun. 5, 2023 at 11:50 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent and Maddie Kerth
Investigators say the public was instrumental in caching the teens.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2023 at 1:45 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Customers will have the chance to order the “Posty Way” meal.
La. woman accused of using aunt’s debit card for 136 DoorDash orders held on preset $18 million bond
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 10:27 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Investigators say Maili Morris made 136 purchases using her 73-year-old aunt’s debit card, which she had linked to her personal DoorDash account.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 3:50 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Quavo from the hit trio Migos released a new song Thursday apparently revealing that the group is no more.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 1:22 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
NBA YoungBoy says it troubles him to know fans might have been negatively influenced by his music and is planning a Mormon baptism.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 11:57 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Louisiana football fans will have something to cheer for no matter which team they’re pulling for in Super Bowl LVII.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 4:24 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
A new complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice alleges nursing home owner Bob Dean swept millions of dollars from the homes into his personal banking accounts.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 2:43 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Christian Robinson, 25, is being held on a half-million dollar bond after he allegedly killed his aunt by stepping on her throat until officers were forced to taze him.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 12:56 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Cheryl Dufrene, 60, died of a heart attack in the medical ward of the Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex, officials say.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 12:12 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Detectives say Robert Rheams, 51, was armed with a shovel and a lug wrench when he broke into the home of a woman and her two young children.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 11:08 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
New Orleans rapper Rob49 is among at least 10 injured in a shooting outside a Miami Gardens restaurant Thursday night (Jan. 5), according to multiple reports.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 10:31 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans was lit in blue and red in honor of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 10:04 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Crews are searching for four passengers who were aboard a helicopter that went down about 10 miles off the coast of Plaquemines Parish.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 12:37 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
King cake is not a year-round pastry, allegedly.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 2:50 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Washington celebrated his 79th birthday on Dec. 21 and died two days later, sources tell Fox 8.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2022 at 9:36 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Police initially classified the death as a suicide, but later determined the woman was a victim of a homicide.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 5:15 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
While the number of tornadoes in any single year fluctuates, the average number over a ten-year span has been steadily increasing in Louisiana since 1950.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 12:21 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Authorities in Mississippi have identified the slain officers as Sgt. Steven Robin and Officer Branden Estorffe.
Tyler Perry offered his mansion to Prince Harry and Meghan, now he’s the godfather of their daughter
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 11:33 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
After lending them his home when they moved stateside in 2020, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asked Tyler Perry to be their daughter Lili’s godfather.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 3:38 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent and David Jones
An autopsy found the baby suffered from several severe injuries. The parish coroner determined the cause of death to be homicide by blunt force trauma.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2022 at 12:12 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
A woman was struck and killed along a heavily-trafficked portion of Power Boulevard in Metairie, Sheriff Lopinto reported Friday night.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 10:35 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Zion Williamson put on a show Friday night as the New Orleans Pelicans soared to their sixth straight win with a 128-117 victory over the Phoenix Suns.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 4:59 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
YoungBoy Never Broke Again has partnered with Amazon to launch his own radio show, according to social media posts from the rapper’s team.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 7:26 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
The family of former Saints defensive end Glenn Foster, Jr. says a funeral mishandled his brain, preventing it from being tested for CTE.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 11:56 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Mark Ingram is likely to miss the rest of the season with an MCL injury, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2022 at 3:48 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
A woman is behind bars after police say she beat, burned, and stole the car of a 76-year-old man who was in her care.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 3:52 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Bill Sommers, the head of Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice has announced his resignation.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 9:34 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Cassidy would be the third Republican to enter the race for the governor’s mansion.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 4:05 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
In an interview with The Athletic, Bruce Arians admitted to barking at officials and Lattimore before things turned ugly.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 3:23 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Saints running back Alvin Kamara is unlikely to face any disciplinary actions this season after a Las Vegas judge set a March 1 trial date in connection to an alleged assault outside of a nightclub in February.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 4:55 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
A paper-wrapping machine failure halted the return of Hubig's Pies in its tracks, but no longer.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 11:40 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
New Orleans police are looking for two men accused of breaking into someone’s car and stealing a PlayStation 5.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 4:24 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust and Mykal Vincent
Plaintiffs have argued that not enough has been done to determine Dean’s worth and what he should pay to the families of those who suffered.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 2:26 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
New Orleans police have issued arrest warrants for two men accused of doing burnouts and donuts in the Treme neighborhood over the weekend.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 11:38 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
A Houston-area teacher has been found “alive and well” in New Orleans after a months-long search spanning two states.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 10:32 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
The winning ticket was sold at Greg's Food Mart
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 5:34 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
The Bogalusa Lumberjacks will end their 2022 football season early after Albany High School informed them they will be forfeiting the season finale over safety concerns.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 11:57 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Days before TakeOff was shot and killed in downtown Houston, he performed with Quavo as the duo Unc & Phew at Lil Weezyana Fest in New Orleans.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 5:18 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
New Orleans police are searching for a man caught on video stealing a woman’s car in the Behrman neighborhood of the West Bank.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 4:28 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent and David Jones
Two high school students have been arrested and accused of hate crimes after video circulated on social media of them using racial slurs on campus.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 3:28 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Dennis Allen said even with Winston cleared to play, the Saints’ offense has been efficient with Dalton under center.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2022 at 2:31 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
In the suit, attorneys for Darnell Greene say Alvin Kamara “brutally beat” their client “without justifiable provocation,” causing a disfiguring facial injury.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 at 3:59 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
The Seahawks have claimed former New Orleans Saints running back Tony Jones off waivers.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 at 1:53 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
One man is dead after a boat struck a rock jetty in the Empire Channel in Plaquemines Parish, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.