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Plans to “carry out an attack” in New Orleans were thwarted after an ex-Marine was arrested while on the way to the Louisiana city with guns and body armor in the car, according to court documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. Micah James Legnon, 28, was charged with threats in interstate commerce....

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A former New Orleans bus monitor says there’s no movement in her case after a local high school student and her mother allegedly attacked her on a school bus in August. Tamika Jackson’s last few months have been about recovery. She was allegedly attacked by...

Attorney Amanda Reynolds argues that her golden retriever, Finnegan, relies entirely on her for food and medical care.

A 20% cut for the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office in the City of New Orleans’s 2026 budget would worsen “already dangerous” staffing shortages for the troubled agency and make it “impossible” to operate a constitutional jail, Sheriff Susan Hutson said in a scathing court filing this week.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Cardell Hayes is still guilty of manslaughter for his 2016 road rage shooting that killed former Saints star Will Smith. Louisiana’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal on Tuesday (Dec. 16) denied Hayes’ appeal seeking to vacate his January 2024 conviction and sentence of 22 years and two months in...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - U.S. Marshals are searching for a 36-year-old man wanted on felony charges who may be in the New Orleans area. Antonio Raemone Lewis Jr. is wanted by the Allen County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on a felony warrant for rape by force with a firearm and child sexual trafficking,...

NEW ORLEANS — As immigrants in southeastern Louisiana and Mississippi braced for this month’s U.S. Homeland Security operation, Cristiane Rosales-Fajardo received a panicked phone call from a friend. The friend’s Guatemalan tenant, who didn’t know she was pregnant, had just delivered a premature baby in the New...

A teenager with autism, who was reported missing from Gretna Tuesday, has been located.

Sidney Barthelemy II, a builder and the son of former New Orleans Mayor Sidney Barthelemy, will run for a vacant Louisiana Senate district. Barthelemy announced Wednesday he will compete for state Senate District 3, one of three vacant Senate seats in the Senate. He plans to officially qualify Wednesday. The...

The family of beloved New Orleans chef and civic icon Leah Chase is split over the future of the struggling public school that bears her name as the Orleans Parish School Board debates whether to pour more money into the school or close it down. In recent letters to NOLA...