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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans police shut down part of a neighborhood near Broad St. and a nearby interstate exit as they investigated an incident late Sunday morning (6/28). It opened opened about 30 minutes later. Police said they were working in the 1800 block of Benefit Street, and...

NEW ORLEANS — An ex-New Orleans police officer abused his position on the force to help stage a 2019 art theft, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced on Friday. After a two-week trial, a federal jury found Christian Claus guilty of teaming up with local homeowner Fouad K. Zeton and a Nevada art appraiser, Michael Jon Sc

Investigators also reported widespread animal waste in the house.

A man is dead after being struck by a pickup truck in Central City Saturday, June 27.

On a crowded Bourbon Street, Diane Amos moves through the throng with a fistful of roses, pressing single stems into the hands of women she believes are vulnerable to exploitation and quietly telling them, "These are my girls." For more than a decade, Amos has led Free NOLA, a faith-based outreach group that uses flowe

A former New Orleans police officer was convicted on various fraud and bribery charges on Friday, June 26.

Temperatures are heating up, and so are the heat risks. Make sure to take care of yourself when outside as summer is in full swing. Chances for rain exist in the coming days. Taking a look out the window (NOAA satellite), there is not much going on currently (around 1:00 CST). No precipitation in our region (see below

Block after block of open-air stalls stretching along the riverfront is the kind of setup that makes planning unnecessary and watches irrelevant. You arrive for coffee and beignets in the morning, wander past produce vendors stacking mangoes and sugar cane in pyramids, then realize three hours have disappeared into tas

There was a Chinese salt and pepper shrimp dish that took me back in time to a lost restaurant. There was a chicken shawarma done exactly the way it should be, though too often is not. There were a few cocktails in plastic cups and nicer drinks along the way.

In the first months of World War I, the United States was still officially neutral, but its ports were already tied to the war overseas. Ships carried horses, mules, supplies, and munitions across the Atlantic, and those cargoes made American harbors places of suspicion and fear. This 1915 report from...