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The FBI New Orleans Field Office and Louisiana State Police have announced a joint enforcement initiative. This follows increased immigration enforcement by the Department of Homeland Security in the Greater New Orleans area. The goal is to prevent assaults on federal officers and to stop interference with law...

HARVEY, La. (WVUE) - A 66-year-old Harvey man was booked with attempted murder and manslaughter Saturday (Dec. 6) after allegedly shooting and killing his wife when she intervened in an argument he was having with her son, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said. The incident occurred around 10:15 a.m....

The U.S. Customs and Enforcement people are not the U.S. Border Patrol people. And they are not the only federal agencies going after the so-called “worst of the worst” and coming up short, but they have the highest profiles in Louisiana, and they’re the reason we’re in the national spotlight.

They arrived at the Prytania Theatre early, with glitter and blankets and friends from book club, for the first chance to see a romance they’d loved on the page transformed for the screen. To them, and to the film and book industries courting them, the screening of “People We...

It took federal agents less than a minute to take two men from their pickup truck, handcuff them and drive them away in a pair of unmarked SUVs, witnesses said, describing a federal Border Patrol action in the parking lot of a west Metairie restaurant this week. The men were...

The New Orleans Police Department is asking for the public's help to find a person of interest in a business burglary. The incident happened on November 27, 2025, in the 2000 block of Gentilly Boulevard. Investigators say the person may be driving a Dodge Neon with a switched Louisiana plate, 917 GLS.

Mike Ginart, a lawyer whose civic work in St. Bernard Parish helped him win a seat on the Parish Council as the parish was in the midst of the massive cleanup after Hurricane Katrina, died Nov. 26 after an illness. He was 64. Ginart, a former St. Bernard Parish schoolteacher...

Louisiana State Police and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office say a social media post claiming immigration authorities struck and killed a pedestrian in Metairie is false.

FBI agents and Louisiana State Police have launched a joint effort to safeguard federal immigration officers during enhanced enforcement operations in New Orleans. The partnership, announced Wednesday, aims to deter a surge in assaults on Border Patrol and ICE agents, with officials warning that any interference will...

New Orleans’ only direct-run school is facing a deficit in its second year, and board members are debating whether to shut it down. Now, local business leaders are asking officials to “make the hard decision” to close The Leah Chase School at the end of this school year.