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Multiple Orleans Justice Center inmates started fires in their cells on July 5, then attacked the deputies sent to move them to a disciplinary pod, according to court records. Inmates also fought each other, threatened to jump from a second-story mezzanine, and bit and punched deputies. The melee in Pod...

LAFAYETTE, La. (NEWS 15) — A man from the New Orleans area was sentenced to seven years in federal prison after more than four pounds of cocaine were found in his vehicle during a traffic stop on I-10 near Scott, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana.

I have been reading news of the trials of the “slammers,” who fake car collisions with trucks and then claim injuries and file lawsuits. I notice slammers have undergone surgery for fake injuries. While a couple of lawyers have been named, there has been no identification of the surgeons who carried out the fraudulent

From a vampire-themed cafe to a rotating bar and a restaurant that keeps a table for a ghost, five New Orleans spots stand apart for concepts diners are unlikely to find elsewhere. Each one pairs a highly specific setting with a menu or service detail that has helped define its reputation.

Recently, it seemed every news outlet led with some variation on the headline, “SWB worker fails to turn on pumps for 45 minutes and the city floods.”. Headlines like this make everyone dumber and make a solution further away. Flooding was caused by 5 inches of rain. A 45-minute...

Southerners always seem to be thinking about good food. We dream about breakfast in our sleep. Then, while we fight over the last piece of bacon, we make a plan for lunch, during which the supper menu is proposed, debated, and ratified. From the jars, bottles, boxes, and bags that...

Police say a woman parked her car in front of her home in the 700 block of Voisin Street only to return to find the door open, interior ransacked and her wallet missing.

More than two weeks after an underground transformer explosion knocked out power to nearly 1,000 customers, forced a hotel evacuation and sent thick, acrid smoke billowing up above Bourbon Street, Entergy New Orleans executives said they cannot determine the cause of the July 4 incident. “Because of the fire significan

Gibbs Construction, founded in 1976, was already a dominant general contractor in town before Lauren Gibbs took over the business from her father, Larry Gibbs, in 2019. The Elmwood firm’s reputation and expertise grew as it racked up major projects, including significant renovations to the exterior of the Superdome fol

Minutes after fleeing from the courtyard of a Metairie apartment complex where he'd just shot a 21-year-old woman in the head, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office investigators say Kennedy George stopped and doubled back to the crime scene. As Sharde Cooper's friends were frantically trying to help her and call...