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Certain American cities, while charming during the day, turn into places where caution becomes essential...

GRETNA — Authorities have found a missing 17-year-old less than 24 hours after he was reported missing in Gretna. Officials said he was last seen at school around 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday. By 7 a.m. on Wednesday, he was found safe.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - For nearly three weeks now, dozens of volunteers and donors have worked with local immigrant rights group Familias Unidas En Acción to organize, pack and deliver food bags to migrant families scared of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Catahoula Crunch. The operation...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Only a small number of Border Patrol agents will stay in New Orleans over the next few days as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to redeploy them to Chicago, according to a source familiar with the plans. The source says the Department is sending...

A Honduran national, identified as 33-year-old Bryan Javier Perez-Espinoza, has been sentenced to a federal prison term for illegal reentry into the United States and firearms possession. In an announcement on December 3, Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson disclosed that Perez-Espinoza will serve 21 months...

My son attends The Leah Chase School. The Orleans Parish School Board wants to close our school for dubious reasons. Worse, they tried to do this without input from the families of the 340 students whose lives will be upended. But we caught wind of the plan, and now we’re...

Micah James Legnon, 28, was charged with threats in interstate commerce. Federal authorities said they had been surveilling Legnon due to ties to an extremist anti-capitalist and anti-government group.

For years, we have heard about the need to stop the flow of illegal drugs across our borders and have seen very little action to stop this. In recent years, the drugs have gotten more potent and are having a devastating effect on our youth. We finally have a leader...

Some New Orleans culture bearers will see their rent triple next year after Habitat for Humanity sold several Musicians' Village rental properties to a new landlord. Why it matters: The community was developed in the post-Katrina years as a way to provide affordable housing for musicians. The big picture: Habitat...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Orleans Public Defenders Office reassigned a high-profile case from attorney Tanzanika Ruffin, who faces allegations of defrauding a client’s family out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The office reassigned Lenton Vanburen’s case from Ruffin to Miles Swanson, a conflict panel attorney....