Marrero man found guilty of stabbing girlfriend to death, attempting to hide her body
A Marrero man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death, torching her car and then trying to hide her body in a wooded area of the West Bank was found guilty of second-degree murder Thursday. A Jefferson Parish jury found Nathaniel Hernandez, 43, guilty in the 2022 murder of 32-year-old...
Lakeside Shopping Center lands another new tenant. See who it is.
JD Sports, a global athletic footwear and clothing retailer, will open its first store location in the Greater New Orleans area at Metairie’s Lakeside Shopping Center. The sportswear retailer plans to open its store, located next to Macy’s and across from Anthropologie, by late 2026, the mall said in a release on Frida
The $345 Overhyped Train Trip From New York to Louisiana That Nobody Told You...
A $345 train trip from New York to Louisiana sounds like another route requiring Chicago, a station change and several separate tickets. The Crescent runs directly from New York to New Orleans. Under the current timetable, the southbound journey takes 32 hours and 12 minutes, with no required train change along the way
LASPCA and New Orleans City Council clash over budget cuts
During a discussion over the future of mule-drawn carriages in the French Quarter, animal advocates quickly shifted gears to animal control concerns across the city of New Orleans, in light of budget cuts to the LASPCA. The discussion happened during the New Orleans City Council meeting Thursday. As leaders grappled...
Orleans Sheriff Michelle Woodfork wants to end federal jail oversight. Here’s what she’s facing.
Orleans Parish Sheriff Michelle Woodfork wants to get New Orleans' jail out from under its decade-old federal consent decree within her first year in office. A 197-page report, compiled by a team of court-appointed monitors and detailing conditions at the lock-up under former Sheriff Susan Hutson, shows just how much w
Booziest Middle Eastern restaurant in NOLA opens in Lakeview with hot pita, happy hours
The collective New Orleans memory may sometimes leapfrog back to the best of times. And so, the Lakeview address where Byblos now has its new location is still remembered by many as the former home of Mondo, rather than the three short-lived restaurants that followed it. A large bar was...
Basic housing remains out of reach for nearly half Louisiana renters, study finds
A new study that examines the cost of housing for low-wage earners across all 50 states underscores the affordability crisis facing roughly half of the nearly 600,000 renting households across Louisiana. According to the annual report, jointly produced by the National Low Income Housing Coalition and HousingLOUISIANA,
Major downtown Shreveport property owner selling portfolio to focus on New Orleans
Downtown Shreveport’s largest nongovernment property owner is selling all of its holdings in the city to focus on New Orleans. Over the past 16 years, Hakim family corporations have purchased some of the most important historic properties as well as a prominent high-rise office building in Shreveport. The properties...
DA says funding cuts, fewer judges threaten New Orleans public safety gains
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams warned Thursday that violent crime in the city is at risk of rising as funding and resources decrease, threatening recent public safety progress. “It is certainly putting the public safety gains that we have achieved in jeopardy,” Williams said during...
Unchecked Overtime: NOPD officer arrested on multiple counts of payroll fraud
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Louisiana State Police have arrested a New Orleans Police Department officer following Fox 8’s series of investigations into unchecked overtime at the department. Troopers booked Senior Police Officer Brandon Coleman on multiple counts of payroll fraud Thursday morning. Coleman was placed on emerge
