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Detectives with the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office are investigating a break-in at an Arabi business where a handcrafted artwork vanished and fresh graffiti was left splashed across the storefront. The missing piece, described by authorities as "Dueling Oak New Orleans City Park," was reported stolen after...

Three people were shot in the Central Business District on Thursday, March 26.

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans police are investigating after a man was shot early Friday morning. Officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 2100 block of Louisiana Avenue around 12:15 a.m. When they arrived, they found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound. The...

GRETNA, La. — Gretna police have obtained an arrest warrant for a woman after a newborn baby was found dead in a porta-potty near Waffle House early Thursday morning, Gretna police said. Around 3:20 a.m., Lekesha Lamelle, 37, told officers she had given birth in a porta-potty near 62...

CHALMETTE — A Chalmette woman was arrested and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison after she allegedly underreported her income to receive Medicaid benefits. According to the Attorney General's office, 39-year-old Lindsi Melerine provided false information to the Louisiana Department of Health between July...

AMITE — Tangipahoa Parish officials urged caution at railroad crossings Thursday after a motorist was killed in a collision with a passenger train. Dorian Batiste, 22, died when the southbound City of New Orleans hit the front end of a pickup truck in which he was riding Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff's office...

Five people are safe following a boat crash in St. John the Baptist Parish on Sunday, March 22.

Some Touro Infirmary patients were evacuated Wednesday morning after a vehicle fire inside the nearby Uptown parking garage sent smoke billowing out into the neighborhood, according to the hospital. “The New Orleans Fire Department responded to a fire that occurred this morning inside the Delachaise parking garage...

(NEW ORLEANS) — The U.S. Coast Guard is responding after two vessels, the freighter Pac Dubhe and bulk carrier African Buzzard, collided and subsequently grounded near mile marker 124.5 on the Mississippi River on Monday. African Buzzard is currently aground. The two vessels are entangled, with African Buzzard’s...

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. Edwin Rivera slept on the street for days to make it to his early-morning shifts on time. Rivera, who is unhoused and recently arrived in New Orleans, worked 60 hours for the city as a clean-up worker during last month’s Mardi Gras...