NOPD investigating homicide in Mid City Tuesday evening
New Orleans Police homicide detectives are investigating a fatal shooting in the 3500 block of Bienville Street. Police say shortly before 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, officers were sent to investigate a call of a man shot in that location.
Pedestrian struck, killed on Paris Road early Tuesday
The Louisiana State Police is investigating a fatal crash in New Orleans Tuesday morning, Sept. 30.
New poll shows latest on race for New Orleans mayor, sheriff and at-large City...
The New Orleans mayoral race has remained largely unchanged in the final weeks of campaigning, with Helena Moreno maintaining a more than 30-point lead among likely voters in the latest publicly available poll. The poll conducted by the University of New Orleans Survey Research Center from Sept. 20-24 and published...
New Orleans bluesman Little Freddie King recovering in hospital after fall from bike
After his “two-wheel Cadillac let him down,” New Orleans bluesman Little Freddie King is currently in the hospital and recovering from a fall, his drummer and manager “Wacko” Wade Wright says. King Sept. 19 was riding his new, electric bicycle near his home in Musicians’ Village...
‘Forever chemicals’ found in nearly all Southeast Louisiana drinking water samples
A new report is sounding the alarm over the presence of harmful chemicals and heavy metals in Southeast Louisiana’s drinking water.
19-year-old stabs her boyfriend to death after birthday party at Kenner Airbnb, police say
Akailah Hicks' 19th birthday celebration started with a party among friends and family at a Kenner Airbnb, but ended with her in handcuffs after authorities say she stabbed her boyfriend to death with a kitchen knife. Hicks was arrested Monday morning, her birthday, and booked with second-degree murder, obstruction...
Victim in Bayou St. John killing was carpenter, public artist: ‘He was always about...
An armed man began knocking on doors near Bayou St. John not long before the gunfire erupted Saturday morning, according to neighbors. A few minutes before 8 a.m., he stopped at a house on Dumaine Street and proceeded to shoot the man who lived there. Eliot Brown was a beloved...
Clawcade craze lands in New Orleans
The claw machine craze has reached metro New Orleans, with a flashy new Japanese-style claw machine arcade opening in Metairie. The big picture: Super Clawdom debuted earlier this month in a former children's clothing store on Severn Avenue. The arcade is bright and shiny inside, with dozens of claw machines...
NOPD announces 2 arrests in Bourbon St. slaying
New Orleans Police today announced two arrests in a deadly exchange of gunfire on Bourbon Street over the weekend. Mekhi Jarius Andry faces a second-degree murder charge. Dontrell Bradley faces charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Report: Project NOLA denies NOPD real-time access to crime cameras
According to our partners at WWL-TV, Project NOLA director Brian LaGarde said he withdrew the NOPD’s access to those cameras because the city declined to end an arrangement with the TV show Homicide Squad.
