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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Department of Homeland Security says it has arrested about 370 people during immigration enforcement operations in the New Orleans area since Dec. 3. According to DHS, the arrests were made as part of Operation Catahoula Crunch, which officials say targets people they describe as criminal...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - U.S. Marshals arrested a 20-year-old man Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting of Southern University student Donovan Pugh. Zion Buck was arrested in Clayton, Louisiana, about 30 minutes from Natchez, Mississippi. He is charged with first-degree murder, home invasion, and armed...

The drumbeat of David Russell Batiste Jr. runs through many New Orleans bands. Starting with the St. Augustine High School Marching 100, the bands on Batiste’s résumé are a guide to the history of New Orleans funk and R&B. “As a member of a family that has...

The holidays would not be the holidays without the cookies baked by the Sisters of Holy Family.

New Orleans Police say a man is dead, and a woman is the one that shot and killed him in the Storyville neighborhood. “Officers responded to a shooting in the 1400 block of Bienville St.,” according to an initial police report.

A vacant house in the Tulane-Gravier neighborhood was fully engulfed in flames Tuesday night, according to the New Orleans Fire Department. Two homes and an additional vacant structure were also damaged by the fire, an NOFD spokesperson said. Just before 9:40 p.m., firefighters were sent to a one-story, wood-frame...

Raul Malo’s sumptuous voice could captivate from any perspective — none more so than sitting at his feet. Many years ago, the Mavericks frontman performed an intimate solo showcase at an upper-floor hotel lounge in Austin, Texas, during the South By Southwest music conference. If there was a stage in the corner where...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Before Operation Catahoula Crunch officially launched two weeks ago, members of the local Hispanic and Latino community were already bracing for what was to come. “Many people, a lot of women in the hotel and tourism industry started to say I’m not showing to the job...

Someone in New Orleans has put up a large Ice Voodoo Doll and you can see the pins penetrating the body of the doll that is attached to a tree.

The Orleans Parish Coroner's Office has identified the woman who was shot and killed in the Holy Cross neighborhood last week as 63-year-old Pauline Hooker. According to police, Hooker was found dead on the porch of a home in the 900 block of Maurice Avenue at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Paramedics responded to the...