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Mobile has seen 26,174 riders board the Amtrak Mardi Gras Service in just under seven months, and the city is outperforming New Orleans on a per‑capita basis among the two largest anchors of the coastal route. Since the service launched on August 18, Mobile is averaging roughly 130 boardings...

SHREVEPORT La. - Amtrak officials are looking to expand travel across several southern states, and with new data centers coming to the area they have to find ways to help people get around. An expansion of the passenger rail along the Interstate 20 corridor will be one of the big...

Sylvester Francis got tired of paying $35 for his own photograph. In 1979, he paraded with the Gentlemen of Leisure Social Aid and Pleasure Club. A photographer snapped him in his finery and charged $35 for a print. Francis paid, then bought a Super 8mm camera and a still camera, figuring he’d shoot his own […]

This weekend, pictures of abandoned pets locked in crates in New Orleans East, were shared among animal lovers. And when they were sent to us as well, we went searching for answers to see what happened and where the dogs are now. For more than a week, four dogs were...

A pair of brothers from Algiers admitted to stalking and killing a man two years ago near a Gretna bus stop in revenge for an earlier stabbing, according to authorities. Junior Antoine, 20, and his brother, Maurrio Antoine, 21, agreed to plead guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the death of 47-year-old Ronald...

Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office detectives have arrested a Harvey man in connection with a Marrero shooting that left one person injured. Demond Poole, 31, was booked Thursday with attempted first-degree murder, being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and resisting an officer, according to authorities....

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - An inmate who pleaded guilty in a murder plot took the witness stand Monday in the federal trial focused on staged 18-wheeler accidents in New Orleans, now in its third week. Personal injury attorneys Vanessa Motta and Jason Giles, along with their law firms and alleged...

A man who was shot dead in New Orleans East last week was identified by the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office Monday as 23-year-old Bobby Lavigne. Officers with the New Orleans Police Department said they found Lavigne and another victim wounded in the 7900 block of Chef Menteur Highway at around 10:40 p.m. on March...

A court watchdog group in New Orleans is speaking out against a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a mechanism to allow the Senate to remove a judge or a district attorney upon the recommendation of the governor. Jesse Manley, the interim executive director of Court Watch NOLA, says the problem he...

A nonprofit land trust on the West Bank working to preserve forested wetlands, recently earned national accreditation, a major milestone demonstrating the organization’s stability and longevity. The process through the Land Trust Accreditation Commission put Woodlands Conservancy through a third-party review of its...