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Jaylan Ash spent last season studying the habits of Destrehan No. 1 wide receiver Jabari Mack, an LSU player who recorded more than 1,000 yards from scrimmage as a senior. Now in his senior year, Ash has applied what he learned from Mack to become Destrehan’s go-to receiver. Ash’s goal of a 1,000-yard season this year appears within reach now that he is thriving as a downfield receiving threat while contributing as a return specialist.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of Metairie’s newest ALDI on Thursday morning. The store at 215 Veterans Memorial Blvd. welcomed customers at 9 a.m., and the first 200 shoppers received a gift bag with ALDI products and a gift card, the company said. Inside, shoppers will find a...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans police announced that a man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a woman on Oct. 6. The NOPD said 31-year-old Stephanie South was found shot to death Tuesday (Oct. 6) around 2:38 a.m. in New Orleans East. She was pronounced dead at...

A former Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office maintenance man admitted Thursday that when he shut off water supply to a jail cell at the Orleans Justice Center in May 2025, it enabled 10 detained people to remove a toilet and escape through the hole it left. An attorney for Sterling...

Get your sweaters out. This weekend will finally bring some weather-related relief to residents across southeast Louisiana as a cold front pushes through the region and drops lows into the 50s, forecasters with the National Weather Service said Thursday. “It’s a good 15-degree difference. It’s very noticeable,“ said Hannah Lisney,...

Sum’n Sweet Frozen Treats, an Uptown New Orleans dessert shop that transformed the longtime former home of Neutral Ground Coffee House into a pastel-pink retreat for Italian ice, soft serve and extravagant sundaes, announced it will close next month in a lengthy Instagram post. The shop will serve its...

The only attorney to plead guilty to charges from an investigation into staged vehicle crashes involving big-rig trucks on New Orleans roadways, called “Operation Sideswipe,” was sentenced Thursday to federal prison. U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown sentenced Danny Patrick Keating Jr. to 32 months in federal prison,...

An attorney who pleaded guilty in a wide-ranging staged wrecks scheme has been sentenced to prison. Danny Keating, a lawyer who pleaded guilty to his role in the scheme to stage wrecks with 18-wheelers across New Orleans, was sentenced Thursday before federal Judge Nanette Jolivette Brown. Keating received a sentence...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) announced the arrest of a second suspect in the homicide case of 69-year-old Alphonse Hogan Jr., who went missing back in August. Police arrested 35-year-old Michael Adams on Wednesday (Oct. 14) for one count of accessory after the fact to...

Mignon Faget is leaving the Magazine Street retail space it's occupied for the last 27 years, a move that the iconic jewelry brand’s CEO said was prompted by a new landlord who is bringing a bigger retailer into the property. Maghan Oroszi, who has run the jeweler since 2024,...