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A system brewing in the Gulf is all but sure to reach tropical storm strength as it nears Louisiana early this week, and New Orleans officials are opening sandbag distribution sites and urging locals to prepare as much of the Gulf Coast braces for potentially heavy rains and damaging winds.

New Orleans city officials announced sandbag distribution locations for potential tropical weather.

A woman has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge after authorities say she gave birth to a baby who was found dead inside a portable toilet in Gretna. Police were called to a Waffle House on the West Bank Expressway shortly after 3 a.m. on March 26 after 37-year-old Lakesha Lemelle walked into the restaurant

LOUISIANA — Early spaghetti model plots for Invest 91L show growing agreement that the system could shift toward the western Gulf later this week, though a defined center of circulation has not yet formed. The tropical wave near Florida’s western coast could move west or northwest and continue organizing over the comin

A long-delayed capital murder trial is set to start tomorrow in Montgomery for the man accused of fatally shooting Metairie native Thomas Hand Jr. in January 2022. The case moving back into a courtroom has revived urgent calls from Hand's Louisiana family, who say they are still waiting for clear answers after years of

Batting away snakes, Wilkie Declouet trudged through chest-deep water to reach his front door. Hurricane Ida had flooded Ironton, a small historic Black community down the Mississippi River from New Orleans, only 10 miles outside the levee system that protects the city. Declouet, a 61-year-old father of four, was the f

Other than the host state, which has three teams competing, no other state had more than one team chosen to participate in the 10U Diamond Youth Softball (DYS) World Series, currently being played in Laurel, MS, which fields state champions from nine states, except one. That is the state of Louisiana represented by 10U

Fat City could finally be getting the spark locals have been waiting on. After years of empty storefronts and stalled redevelopment, parish officials and the Metairie Business Development District are rolling out plans for a compact leisure park and more parking that they hope will turn the low-rise strip around Edenbo

Anthony Craig Brown Jr. was a 23 year old father whose life ended in a shooting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 27, 2012. His body was discovered outside a residence in the 1800 block of North Rocheblave Street in the city’s 7th Ward. He had suffered fatal gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead.

On Saturday, a planned outage in Westwego left more than 300 residents without power from 8 a.m. until the late afternoon. Among those affected was 78-year-old Gladys Graham, who had to cancel her birthday plans due to the outage. “A lot of friends and kin people coming in, and I...