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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A Marrero woman accused of a fatal hit-and-run at a St. Roch-area gas station deliberately ran over her victim twice after stealing her goods, according to an investigation detailed in court records. The account of 54-year-old victim Erica Gabriel’s death was provided in a booking report...

Multiple generations of Black civil rights activists met at Xavier University on Wednesday to honor a group of Freedom Riders after they finally completed a disrupted bus journey from Washington D.C. to New Orleans 65 years after the original trip was halted. The original ride, the first in a series of trips to protest Jim […]

The New Orleans Museum of Art is hosting more than 40 paintings and other works by the American artist Danielle Mckinney with artworks “that depict her female subjects in private moments of solitude.” noma.org. Nov. 6-22 | “Sweeney Todd”. A murder-minded barber returns to London to exact...

A former New Orleans lawyer who went to federal prison for stealing millions from his white shoe firm faces a new round of federal charges for falsifying taxes. The former gambling law specialist, James Perdigao, was charged Monday with two counts of filing false tax returns, court records show. The counts were delivered via bill of information.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrested a member of the Archbishop Rummel High School's fundraising board Friday on allegations that he has been stealing money from the institution, according to authorities. Chad Tusa, 48, was booked with one count of theft valued between $5,000 and $24,999, said Capt. Jason Rivarde,...

The Windsor Court Hotel, the downtown New Orleans high-rise that has hosted presidents, pop stars and British royalty, has been purchased by New Orleans Saints and Pelicans Owner Gayle Benson, the latest addition to her growing portfolio of downtown real estate. Benson, who also owns three Poydras Street skyscrapers, three...

When news broke that a grand jury in New Orleans was investigating Attorney General Liz Murrill for threatening city leaders in letters, City Council member Matthew Willard was quick to anticipate political reverberations. “Well we can kiss the bond funding goodbye for now,” Willard texted a colleague on June 30....

A New York-based hospitality group with deep New Orleans ties is bringing an open-air restaurant overlooking the Mississippi River to the Audubon Nature Institute’s Goldring Woldenberg Park, a key development in Audubon’s ongoing effort to open the downtown riverfront to entertainment and recreational use. Audubon officials announced Friday...

For more than 100 years, the Poor Clares, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, lived quietly in a cloistered community in the 700 block of Henry Clay Avenue near Audubon Park. Now, as the remaining nuns prepare to sell their historic monastery and the nearly two-acre property on which it sits, they are also selling off thousands of items that were part of their daily life for generations, offering a rare glimpse into their humble, secluded lifestyle.

A woman who is believed to have fatally struck another woman with her car after being confronted over stealing items turned herself in and was arrested, the New Orleans Department said Friday. At around 2:12 a.m. Thursday, NOPD responded to a hit-and-run crash in the 3100 block of Elysian Fields...