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While support from survivors of clergy sexual abuse appeared to be coalescing around the settlement proposal in the long-running Archdiocese of New Orleans bankruptcy case, a group of bondholders is now threatening to upend the plan. The bondholders are owed nearly $30 million by the local church and have argued...

Leslie Jacobs, a controversial architect of New Orleans’ all-charter-school system who withdrew from public advocacy several years ago, is back. She's already making waves. Jacobs, a former insurance executive who spent three decades in education advocacy, helped lay the groundwork for the state’s takeover of New...

METAIRIE, La (press release) – Lakeside Shopping Center announced that Rowan, the ear piercing studio, officially opened on Saturday, Oct. 11. Specializing in ear piercing performed exclusively by licensed nurses and using only hypoallergenic earrings, Rowan offers a safe, modern, and comfortable piercing experience...

On the last Saturday of August, I began my morning with The New York Times, which carried yet another story about the decline of reading across the country. Over the past two decades, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, as The Times reported. It’s a sobering trend with a lot of potential...

Columbia University professor of psychology Carl Hart visited Tulane University this Thursday to deliver a Murphy Institute Center for Ethics Public Lecture on recreational drug policy. The event, entitled “Drug Use for Grown-ups: Where Liberty, Policy, and Science Collide,” filled the seats of Kendall Cram Lecture...

Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration has issued a new call for a sanitation provider in the French Quarter and Downtown Development District, potentially reviving a controversy that has engulfed City Hall for nearly a year as New Orleans transitions to a new mayoral administration. The new “request for proposals,”...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Mourners gathered Sunday night (Oct. 12) to honor an Uber driver who was killed during an attempted carjacking in the French Quarter last week. Miguel Stemley, 60, died Thursday night (Oct. 9) after being pinned under his own vehicle during a struggle with carjackers at Bienville and Burgundy...

NEW ORLEANS — An Indiana man charged with molesting a disabled child while working as a Roman Catholic priest in New Orleans for several years beginning in 2004 should be listed as a credibly accused clergy abuser by various institutions for whom he ministered, says the director of a church accountability organization.

The Jefferson Parish school district is requesting up to $4 million from the school board to install cameras in all 327 of its special education classrooms in order to comply with a new law that adds extra protections for public school students with disabilities and requires districts to update their seclusion and...

New Orleans City Councilmember Oliver Thomas conceded the mayor's race Saturday night, but not without throwing a few final punches. Speaking before a crowd of supporters at the Maison Blanche event venue on the Interstate 10 Service Road in New Orleans East, Thomas, who came in third place with 19% of the vote, said...