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The St. Bernard's Sheriff's Office has apprehended the last two suspects involved in a fatal shooting that happened last month in Violet. Marcus Venible, 23, and Maliek Pickens, 21, were found and taken into custody in Mississippi on Wednesday. Venible will be booked with second-degree murder, while Pickens will be...

To most locals, gumbo is best when it’s made at home, the ultimate comfort food informed by mamere’s kitchen and her way of doing things right. Of course, first, there’s a roux. New Orleanians are experts at coaxing that dark roux into a simmering bowl as full of cultural influences as the city itself.

Severe flash flooding has closed Lakeshore Drive from Seabrook Bridge to West End Boulevard on Thursday morning, according to New Orleans city officials. Flooding has reached up to 3 feet in some areas along Lake Pontchartrain, according to the Orleans Levee District Police Department. Four cars stalled in the high...

This New Orleans restaurant has been around for over a century, and along the way, it's developed a rep for serving some of the best muffulettas in town.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A former paralegal testified Wednesday that an attorney at his law firm handed him an envelope he believed was full of cash to deliver to a man suspected of organizing staged vehicle crashes. Todd Smith, who worked at the King Law Firm, took the stand in...

A house fire in Metairie early Tuesday morning caused significant damage to a home but fortunately left all residents safe. Firefighters responded quickly to the scene and worked to bring the blaze under control before it could spread further through the structure. Two-Alarm Fire Breaks Out at Metairie Home....

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Nearly 9,000 Entergy customers in Tangipahoa Parish are without power, according to the Entergy outage map. The Cleco outage map is also showing nearly 1,300 additional customers without power between Washington and St. Tammany parishes. The outages are following severe storms that moved through...

Two years after Samuel “Saint” Easterling vanished from the Bywater neighborhood, his family says the investigation is stuck and new leads have mostly dried up. The Lafayette-born photographer was last seen on Aug. 29, 2024, after leaving a neighborhood bar, and he still has not been found, leaving relatives and...

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. A classical pianist and med-school graduate was at a fork in the road. She could either study piano at a New York conservatory or practice medicine. Thankfully for New Orleans, Dr. Emma Wakefield-Paillet chose medicine, becoming the...

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Louisiana State Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of a bicyclist early Wednesday morning. According to state police, the crash occurred shortly before 5 a.m. on Highway 18 (Seven...