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The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office was informed about multiple social media posts online that alleged that an "immigration enforcement vehicle" struck and killed a pedestrian in Metairie on the night of Friday, Dec. 5.

New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist Kermit Ruffins put it succinctly during a 2011 interview with cannabis magazine High Times: “I need two things to have a perfect show: reefer and people.”. Ruffins’ affection for reefer — his preferred term for cannabis — is well known among locals who might...

As masked, armed men clad in tactical gear swept through the New Orleans area Wednesday conducting immigration “enforcement,” a smaller group of men in central Louisiana were engaged in a far nobler pursuit. Those men, 19 Buddhist monks, are in the midst of a 2,300-mile trek that began...

A New Orleans attorney has asked an Orleans Parish civil judge to compel Mayor LaToya Cantrell to disclose detailed information about her personal finances in open court as part of an ongoing legal dispute tied to a failed restraining order case. In a motion filed Dec. 2, attorney Justin Schmidt,...

NOLA.com - 12/03/2025 07:40:00 PM. The recent news about Mayor-elect Helena Moreno and her push for Border Patrol and ICE agents to remove face masks during immigration raids in New Orleans has sparked a heated debate among the public. Moreno expressed concern over the conduct of U.S. Customs and Border Protection,...

New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick is responding to Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s suggestion that NOPD cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Since its launch in August, Amtrak’s restored Gulf Coast line has carried passengers through marshlands and mossy woods more than 46,000 times — a turnout that the Southern Rail Commission called “one of the most successful service launches in Amtrak's history.”. Between opening day and December, the...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans police are investigating a deadly shooting that happened Saturday afternoon (Dec. 6), leaving one man dead and another injured. Officers responded to reports of gunfire just before 4:15 p.m. in the 4700 block of Camelia Street. When they arrived, they found two men with gunshot wounds.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - As of Dec. 4, data from the New Orleans City Council crime dashboard showed there were 105 murders in the city. That figure represents a 6% drop compared to the same time last year, but when compared to 2022, when the city had 243 homicides, the murder rate has dropped more than 56%. Jeff Asher...

Hannah Chalew salvaged an old oil well from the Poland Avenue scrap yard in New Orleans. She coated it with bagasse, or sugar cane pulp, from Grow Dat, the urban farm in City Park. The paint is recycled, from another nonprofit, the Green Project, and the plants — palmettos, cypress, elephant ear — are largely from...