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Once a Hollywood stuntwoman, Vanessa Motta was shaky on her feet as a “baby lawyer” when she hooked up with the wrong guy, her defense attorney told a federal jury on Wednesday. Motta had been fired from the Mike Brandner law firm in late 2016 and set out...

Tsunami restaurants in Louisiana have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing millions in debt while continuing operations statewide.

Louisiana’s police pension system is accusing Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration of failing to pay $3.5 million in required pension contributions, and has asked the state Treasury Department to strip the city of that amount. The head of the Municipal Police Employees’ Retirement System said on Wednesday that the...

We had eight years of LaToya Cantrell's administration. We had eight years of potholes, of visits to foreign countries that had nothing to do with NOLA, of mismanagement, of an absent mayor who was living in the Pontalba with her boyfriend while the city deteriorated. I only hope Cantrell is...

I guess that I shouldn't be surprised, but I am very disappointed in Attorney General Liz Murrill and Mayor Helena Moreno’s over-the-top reactions to the Barbie-like dolls hanging from beads in the Tucks parade. They really wasted tax dollars on an investigation?. Instead of waiting for the facts, they...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The City of New Orleans is looking for information on how it could enforce its parking rules with cameras. The city published a Request for Information (RFI) to gather details on how parking companies could enforce the city’s parking rules with new technology. The RFI...

Once discarded, swordfish belly is now being smoked, cured, and served as pastrami and bacon in place of beef and pork at top restaurants across the country.

More than two years after he allegedly shot a man dead on a Village de l'Est soccer field, a Bronx man is in jail accused of what authorities describe as a retaliatory killing stemming from gang activity in New York. Manuel Diaz, 34, was booked into Orleans Justice Center on...

The New Orleans Police Department is searching for a man they call a “violent” carjacker. Police say Arthur Cook “violently attacked” a driver at Banks and South Salcedo streets on February 12, stealing and fleeing in the victim’s car.

Henry Talley Jr. got a new lease on life four years ago when he was released from prison after serving 25 years of a life sentence for his role as the wheelman in a 1996 drive-by shooting that killed a 12-year-old boy. But he squandered that shot at redemption in...