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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -- There aren’t many living World War II veterans left, but one in Algiers marked a major milestone Sunday (April 12). Robert Martin Sr. turned 100, surrounded by music, prayer and five generations of family inside St. Joseph’s Missionary Baptist Church, where church leaders said they wanted to honor their eldest member in the place that matters to him most.

NEW ORLEANS — Multiple businesses were burglarized across Uptown overnight, according to the New Orleans Police Department. Police confirmed that three businesses were burglarized and that a suspect was captured on surveillance footage. However, the person remains unidentified at this time. One business, Yinzer’s Amazing Cheesesteaks, posted on social...

NEW ORLEANS — A vehicle fire is causing delays on I-10 near Metairie. On Sunday, the LADOTD reported that the exit ramp from I-10 West to Bonnabel Boulevard (Exit 229) is blocked due to a vehicle fire. Congestion is minimal, they say, but drivers are urged to avoid the area if possible.

Big Chief Demond Melancon, the beadwork powerhouse who leads the Young Seminole Hunters, is headed from the Lower Ninth Ward to Venice this spring. The New Orleans artist will bring hand-sewn ceremonial garments and large beaded portraits to the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, shifting a street-born craft onto one of the world’s biggest contemporary art stages. For...

New Orleans police have arrested a man after he allegedly cut a woman during an altercation. The incident happened on Saturday around 8:45 p.m. in the 7000 block of Crowder Boulevard. According to police, Christopher Brooks, 46, approached a woman who was walking home from the bus stop. When he...

A Slidell doctor was sentenced Thursday, April 9 for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud.

A former Tulane WR signed with the Aviators of Columbus yesterday as a free agent. Who else resides in the UFL from the Wave?

New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno is taking on a problem that generations of mayors before her have tried — and failed — to solve: The need for a new City Hall. The blue-glassed, mid-century-modern building at 1300 Perdido Street that serves as New Orleans’ seat of government opened in 1957 and is decades overdue for a facelift.

A flurry of blood orange-colored peacock plumes erupted onto Dumaine Street at dusk on St. Joseph’s Day, as Black Masking Indian Big Chief Demond Melancon set out to seek rivals. His feathered suit bore dizzyingly meticulous bead mosaics that took months to create. His eyes shone from beneath his...

NEW ORLEANS — Brass music filled the streets of the Marigny Saturday afternoon, replacing the sound of police sirens that had echoed just minutes away in the St. Claude neighborhood four days earlier. Friends and loved ones gathered outside Brieux Carré, where a second line began in honor of...