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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...

The New Orleans Police Department responded to a crash in Lakeview Thursday morning that possibly involved convicted attorney Vanessa Motta‘s mother. The crash happened near the Mount Carmel Academy and Cub Corner day care gate. Sources confirm to WDSU that the woman pictured near the crash site is Aura...

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. If you live in New Orleans, chances are you’ve been exposed to some level of lead, whether it’s from contaminated soil, from chipping paint on an older house or leaching into your drinking water from lead pipes.

Three people were wounded in a shooting near Tulane University campus buildings in the Central Business District Thursday afternoon, New Orleans police said. Police responded to the shooting near the university's Health Sciences Center in the 1400 block of Tulane Avenue around 2:44 p.m. One person was detained at the...