Black Educators Convene to Share Strategies for Boosting the City’s Public Schools
Story and Photos by Daelyn House Data News Weekly Contributor. Despite improved high school graduation rates and college enrollment rates, New Orleans students continue to lag behind their peers statewide in core curriculum subjects. This gap has pushed Black educators to work together to boost academic achievement...
Caught on camera: Burglars kick in door, steal car in N.O. East
NEW ORLEANS — A doorbell camera at a home in New Orleans East captured burglars kicking in the door then making off with the family’s valuables. The homeowner says he’s sharing the video in hopes the thieves will be caught, as well as to ask for the public’s help to find the family’s dog, who went missing during the...
French Quarter carjacking leaves one dead: NOPD
The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a French Quarter carjacking that left a person dead Thursday, Oct. 9.
New Orleans levee police chief addresses SWAT training, new rifles. Some question spending.
The chief of the New Orleans area levee police has sought to clarify the agency's decision to provide SWAT-like training for select officers and new rifles, saying the specialized instruction will allow the force to appropriately respond to a range of potential circumstances. Superintendent Joshua Rondeno said the...
Barbara Lacen-Keller Park opens to fanfare in Central City
Barbara Lacen-Keller's daughters Kelly Bentley Dixon (left) and Dawn Bentley-Johnson dance after the ribbon cutting for the park named in honor of their mother on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. (Danny Monteverde/PRC) A loud cheer followed by the sharp rat-a-tat-tat of a snare drum and the blare of a horn signaled...
New Orleans Nears End of Policing Consent Decree as NOPD Hailed for Reform Efforts
The City of New Orleans is preparing for the closure of the federal consent decree that has overseen its police department for more than a decade. Councilman Eugene Green acknowledged the progress made by the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) in implementing reforms, describing the moment as a significant...
At business forum, LED official says Louisiana has ‘changed the narrative’ on local economy
What a difference $65 billion makes. That was the takeaway from a keynote presentation by Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois and Entergy Louisiana CEO Phillip May at the Tulane Business Forum on Friday. The LED chief argued that a series of major investments portend a new era of economic swagger...
New Orleans man gets 35 years in prison for 2020 Longview murder
LONGVIEW, Texas (KETK) – A man from New Orleans has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of 44-year-old Joseph Pierre Brice on Mobberly Avenue in Longview in 2020. Brice was fatally shot while in the 1700 block of Mobberly Avenue at around 3 p.m. on Feb. 29 of 2020. Several months […]
Derrick Groves, last of 10 escaped New Orleans inmates, is recaptured
The final escaped inmate from the Orleans Justice Center has been recaptured in Atlanta.
Woman accused of trafficking 15-year-old girl across southeast Louisiana
BATON ROUGE - A Baton Rouge woman was arrested at a Super 8 Motel for human trafficking after police say she prostituted a 15-year-old girl and herself across southeast Louisiana. Officers were called to the Super 8 Motel off of Sherwood Forest Boulevard just after 7 p.m. It was there...
