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A 20% cut for the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office in the City of New Orleans’s 2026 budget would worsen “already dangerous” staffing shortages for the troubled agency and make it “impossible” to operate a constitutional jail, Sheriff Susan Hutson said in a scathing court filing this week.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Cardell Hayes is still guilty of manslaughter for his 2016 road rage shooting that killed former Saints star Will Smith. Louisiana’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal on Tuesday (Dec. 16) denied Hayes’ appeal seeking to vacate his January 2024 conviction and sentence of 22 years and two months in...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - U.S. Marshals are searching for a 36-year-old man wanted on felony charges who may be in the New Orleans area. Antonio Raemone Lewis Jr. is wanted by the Allen County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on a felony warrant for rape by force with a firearm and child sexual trafficking,...

NEW ORLEANS — As immigrants in southeastern Louisiana and Mississippi braced for this month’s U.S. Homeland Security operation, Cristiane Rosales-Fajardo received a panicked phone call from a friend. The friend’s Guatemalan tenant, who didn’t know she was pregnant, had just delivered a premature baby in the New...

A teenager with autism, who was reported missing from Gretna Tuesday, has been located.

Sidney Barthelemy II, a builder and the son of former New Orleans Mayor Sidney Barthelemy, will run for a vacant Louisiana Senate district. Barthelemy announced Wednesday he will compete for state Senate District 3, one of three vacant Senate seats in the Senate. He plans to officially qualify Wednesday. The...

The family of beloved New Orleans chef and civic icon Leah Chase is split over the future of the struggling public school that bears her name as the Orleans Parish School Board debates whether to pour more money into the school or close it down. In recent letters to NOLA...

City of New Orleans Public Works crews today removed banners placed on the front of historic Gallier Hall in advance of the inaugural celebration for Mayor-elect Helena Moreno.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans City Council is scheduled to vote Thursday (Dec. 18) on a plan that supporters say will reduce power outages in the city through a new grid of batteries. The plan involves the council -- Entergy New Orleans’ regulator -- approving the use of...

The New Orleans Police Department is seeking assistance in locating a man who has been reported missing. Police are searching for Kunta Robinson, 47. He was last seen in the 6100 block of Tullis Drive on Dec. 2. He has not been seen or heard from by family members, friends, or associates.