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The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) released its preliminary weekly crime statistics for the period of September 21-27, highlighting a range of enforcement actions—from notable arrests to gun seizures—according to an official report circulated by the New Orleans Police Department Analytics Unit. Significant in...

The discovery of drugs and guns led to the arrest of two people in St. Tammany Parish in early September.

The oldest open murder case in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court ended quietly Monday, when a man accused of a killing pleaded no contest after 16 years of delays in one of the slowest-moving courthouses in the country. Keith Kisack pleaded no contest to manslaughter, attempted second-degree murder and...

Already facing life sentences for crimes he admitted to in Louisiana, Daniel Callihan pleaded guilty Monday in Mississippi to murder, sexual battery and kidnapping charges and received a life prison sentence there as well. Callihan pleaded guilty in state court in Jackson, Mississippi, to counts of capital murder,...

BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — A flight from Seattle to New Orleans made an unscheduled stop at the Boise airport Monday afternoon. Alaska AS 568 took off from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport a little after 11 a.m. MST and touched down in Boise about two and a half hours later. The flight was estimated to be nearly...

Gunfire early Sunday morning in the 200 block of Bourbon Street killed a woman and sent three more people to the hospital. “At about 2:22 a.m., NOPD Eighth District officers responded to shots fired in the area,” according to a news release.

A LaPlace man is in jail after St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff’s deputies say they found a body in the trunk of the man’s car Saturday night.

Looking for more to do this week? Check out the latest on Gambit's calendar at calendar.gambitweekly.com. The Fried Chicken Festival returns to the Lakefront with more than 40 food vendors and a music lineup including Lloyd, Blanco Brown, G. Love & Special Sauce, Sugarhill Gang, Choppa, Maggie Koerner, Flagboy Giz,...

KENNER, La. — Three days after the power went out at Westminster Senior Apartments, some residents are still stranded in the dark. Family members say the conditions are unsafe, especially for elderly residents with health problems. “It’s hot and downright dangerous,” said Sherry MacDonald, who picked up her sister...

NEW ORLEANS - The City of New Orleans is challenging the legality of Louisiana’s school zone traffic camera laws, which the state Attorney General last month accused the city of violating. The city filed a lawsuit in the 19th Judicial District Court in East Baton Rouge Parish this month...