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Content Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault. Former Phi Kappa Sigma pledge James Haussman is suing the administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, or Tulane University, the Phi Kappa Sigma-Mu Chapter, Phi Kappa Sigma International Fraternity and 14 fraternity members over alleged hazing...

Call New Orleans the city that never stops eating — and drinking — the way new restaurants and bars have opened over winter break. I’ve been able to try a couple to let you know which you too should be running to. Though it’s located in an...

Saul Alcazar had a rough December. Business at the Kenner location of Cafetomas, his Hispanic restaurant known for its arepas and fruit juice, was cut in half after U.S. Border Patrol agents flooded into the New Orleans area on Dec. 3. He closed his South Carrollton Avenue location after his chef decamped to Texas.

NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana State Police has issued a Level 2 missing child advisory for 13-year-old Helen Galvez. Officials say she went missing from her home on Old Gentilly Road in New Orleans, around 6:50 a.m. Sunday morning. Galvez is a Hispanic female with brown eyes and black...

Hours before sunrise on a cold January morning, Megan Walker was baking dozens of biscuits, scones and frittatas for the day ahead. She glided a rolling pin over a slab of dough, folding one corner and patting it down as flour lifted in faint dust clouds. By the time daylight...

The New Orleans Police Department is asking the public for help identifying a suspect involved in a series of fraudulent transactions. The individual is wanted for theft by deception after reportedly using a stolen credit card at businesses on General De Gaulle Drive and Kabel Drive on the morning of December 19,...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Multiple vehicles were set on fire overnight in the Bywater neighborhood, according to the New Orleans Fire Department. Neighbors reported the incidents occurred on Montegut and Dauphine streets, and then on Dauphine and Desire streets. The NOFD says 8 vehicles were intentionally set on fire,...

NEW ORLEANS — The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (OPSO) is investigating after a person died while being held at the Orleans Justice Center Sunday night. The sheriff’s office is working to notify the person’s family, and officials say the case is still under investigation. "The Orleans...

Before Martin Luther King Jr. became a Civil Rights icon with his likeness fixed in stone or bronze, he developed a deep affinity for New Orleans — its food, and especially its people. When King came to the city in the late 1950s, he found a network of locals...

Winter is arriving in Louisiana! Temperatures are dropping this week, with cold rain and icy conditions possible, especially in northern areas.