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New Orleans Police investigate triple shooting in 7th Ward

The New Orleans Police Department says three people were shot late Saturday night in the Seventh Ward.
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Three shot during Saturday night fight beneath Claiborne Avenue overpass, NOPD says

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Three people were wounded Saturday night (Aug. 15) when a fight beneath the Claiborne Avenue overpass in the Seventh Ward ended with gunfire, New Orleans police said. Two women and one man sustained gunshot wounds, the NOPD said, but none of the injuries were considered life-threatening,...
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Huge ridership, deadly crashes: Growing signs of promise, peril test Amtrak’s Gulf Coast route

The Amtrak route that carries hundreds of passengers a day between New Orleans and Mobile is celebrating a year of extraordinary success and promise, even as its leaders confront growing questions of safety at rail crossings along the Gulf Coast. The route, called the Mardi Gras service, looks like a...
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Metairie’s Busiest Youth Sports Park Ditches Grass for $2.5M Turf Makeover

Lakeshore Playground, the busiest youth sports hub on the East Bank of Jefferson Parish, is in the middle of a multi-million-dollar makeover that will strip out all of its grass fields and replace them with synthetic turf. Playground leaders expect the work to wrap up this fall, giving more than 2,000 registered young
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Louisiana Eats: High On Hemp

New Orleans has long been seen as a place where alcohol flows freely and drunkenness is a natural state of being. Over the last few years, that may be changing. Don't worry, nobody's getting sober. They've just found an alternative in the form of hemp-derived THC drinks! The Big Easy is now the fourth-largest hemp beve
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Saturday evening brings slight & temporary relief ahead of another day of extreme heat

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi is surely feeling the heat on Saturday and this evening will only bring some slight temporary relief before feeling it all over again on Sunday. The Extreme Heat Warning will expire at 8 p.m. tonight, but will make a comeback...
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Uptown’s August Moon, Which Fed Storm Victims for Decades, Fears Closing for Good

For two decades, August Moon has served Vietnamese and Chinese comfort food to the Uptown New Orleans neighborhood surrounding Prytania Street, feeding hospital workers and residents through hurricane after hurricane. Now the family-run restaurant says it may not survive the current economic storm, with owners describi
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17-year-old boy dies falling from stairs in CBD area building, New Orleans police say

Officers with the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the death of a teenage boy in the Central Business District in the early hours of Aug. 15.
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Teen dies from fall inside Downtown New Orleans high-rise, NOPD says

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A 17-year-old boy died early Saturday (Aug. 15) after falling from a stairwell inside a Downtown New Orleans high-rise, New Orleans police said. The department would not yet confirm that the deadly fall occurred within the derelict Plaza Tower, but listed the site of the incident as within the 1000
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New ownership hopes to fix up apartment complex plagued by issues

The national housing non-profit "The Mary fund" is taking over the Parc Fontaine apartments.

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