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NEW ORLEANS – Nine recent graduates of the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) program at the New Orleans Career Center (NOCC) have joined the ranks of New Orleans Emergency Medical Services (EMS), bolstering the city’s emergency response workforce. The NOCC program, developed in collaboration with New Orleans EMS,...

Three FBI special agents were injured Thursday night after their vehicle was hit in the 7th Ward while they were on duty, a spokesperson for FBI New Orleans said. The three agents were near the intersection of A.P. Tureaud Avenue and Aubry Street shortly after 9 p.m. when their car was struck, according to the agency.

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans landlord Joshua Bruno was arrested after police said he tried to run down a tenant, Timothy Pate, with a vehicle. On August 13, a New Orleans city crime camera recorded Bruno allegedly driving directly toward Pate on St. Ann Street, as our partners at Nola.com report.

A man accused of opening fire during a drive-by shooting on the Crescent City Connection last month — a gun battle that left his brother dead and another man wounded — is being held on a $1.5 million bond. Jawuan Riley, 25, was booked on one count of...

Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration has continued to take a cut of the Orleans Parish School Board’s tax revenues, irking City Council members who passed a law this spring to forbid that practice while a six-year-old lawsuit over the city’s tax collections plays out. The administration has maintained...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Benjamin Franklin High School has been ranked the top high school in Louisiana and the only one in the state to crack the national Top 100, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best High Schools rankings. The selective-admissions charter school placed No. 1...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A fight broke out Thursday on an Orleans Parish school bus between a McDonogh 35 High School student, her mother and the bus monitor, sending the employee to the emergency room with multiple injuries, including bite marks. “What’s happening with our youth? How disrespectful our youth...

Slidell's $40 million Amazon delivery center quietly went online this week with plans to increase the volume of packages handled by the facility in the coming weeks and months, an Amazon representative said Friday. More jobs could open as the center ramps up production, the company says. "We've been shipping...

Crimestoppers hopes a $1,250 reward will help bring Bryan Vasquez home, as he is non-verbal and has been without his medicine for over a week.

In U.S. motorized iconography, the legendary Route 66 opened in 1926, providing a unified roadway stretching from Chicago to Santa Monica, some 2,450 miles. By its creation, the myth of the endless straight road was born. Although the route officially disappeared in 1985, thousands still travel it every year looking...