Despite criminal charges against Mayor Cantrell, lawsuit against her could be settled
NEW ORLEANS — In new developments connected to the criminal fraud case against Mayor LaToya Cantrell, a federal judge has ordered settlement talks in the related defamation lawsuit against the mayor. And as that civil case is currently being waged, taxpayers could be on the hook if the two...
Lizards in New Orleans have highest blood-lead levels ever recorded, study finds
The brown lizards scampering on New Orleans porches and sunning themselves on sidewalks should be dead by any other standard. That’s because the Cuban brown anoles live with the highest blood lead levels ever documented in a vertebrate, according to a Tulane University study published this month. Despite lead...
Feeling hopeless in France, this New Orleans native found a way to help after...
When Carol Allen gets frustrated, her anger prompts her to want to hit something — a pillow, a door or a car steering wheel, whatever's handy. In 2005, Allen was living in Provence, France, when she heard the news that Hurricane Katrina was destroying her beloved hometown. Every morning, she watched CNN International...
As volunteers scour New Orleans East for missing boy, NOPD faces scrutiny
New Orleans East resident Marco Hernandez donned rain gear and grabbed a machete on Friday morning as he prepared to search the area's thicketed marshes, abandoned homes and waterways until sundown. He joined dozens of community members who have done the same since a 12-year-old non-verbal boy vanished last week.
Oliver Thomas withdraws controversial New Orleans facial recognition ordinance — for now
New Orleans City Council Member and mayoral candidate Oliver Thomas Aug. 21 quietly withdrew, at least for now, a controversial ordinance granting police the authority to use facial recognition technology to spy on people in public. The decision has drawn cautious optimism from civil rights groups, though Thomas...
NOPD arrests suspect in fatal hit & run
A man suspected of running over and killing a woman as she rode her bicycle in New Orleans East in June is in custody, New Orleans Police announced Friday.
Jury returns verdict in retrial for gruesome 2014 killings with kettle bells
An Orleans Parish jury rejected murder charges Friday against a man being retried in the grisly 2014 drowning death of a Reserve couple in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, instead convicting Horatio Johnson on two counts of manslaughter. An Orleans Parish jury deliberated for more than eight hours Thursday and Friday...
Louisiana AG says next New Orleans mayor should “comply with the law”
Louisiana’s attorney general has some thoughts on the upcoming elections in New Orleans. “You’ve got an opportunity to elect a new mayor in New Orleans and get some change in these relationships…
Crash blocks 2 right lanes on U.S. 90 heading to the West Bank from...
Early morning drivers heading to the West Bank through the Crescent City Connection are in for a rough start to their Friday. A crash had blocked three right lanes on U.S. Route 90B West before General De Gaulle Drive before 6:15 a.m., according to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development's X account.
Bridge City man sentenced to life for double shooting at West Bank ‘trap house’
A 33-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for a shooting that left one man dead and another injured at a West Bank "trap house," according to Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick Jr. Curtis Thomas III of Bridge City was convicted last month of the second-degree murder...
