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BATON ROUGE - The son of a former New Orleans police officer indicted alongside New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell was arrested Friday for firing shots on Southern's campus. Arrest documents say Jeffery Vappie III, 23, was among a group of people in an argument when at least four shots were fired on March 22, 2022.

During local elections, you likely think about how you’ll vote for mayor, but what about Clerk of Court? The job sounds administrative and bureaucratic. But Calvin Duncan cares deeply about the fair administration of justice and sees this office as the key to improving Louisiana’s legal system. Duncan...

METAIRIE, La. (WGNO) — WGNO’s Wheel of Justice reports began in 2008 and have now hit 485 arrests. Our most recent success stories include a suspect accused of multiple car burglaries in the CBD, a man arrested for a business burglary in Algiers, a woman suspected of breaking into a Canal Street store and a man...

Simple steps could have led NOPD to arrest 20-year-old Jerroy Johnson before the killing of a JPSO officer. It took four days for New Orleans police to identify a suspect in the June 22 fatal shooting of Jefferson Parish Correctional Officer Ashley Aples. It took only one more day for officers to arrest the...

A 72-year-old man who was found tied up and dead in a hotel room on the edge of the French Quarter earlier this week was identified as Ralph Yarborough by the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office Friday. Yarborough's preliminary cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma. Police said Tuesday...

A New Orleans woman is facing serious time after being handed a federal indictment for bank robbery, Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson announced recently. Jentonia Williams, a 39-year-old resident from Orleans Parish, allegedly hit the Capital One Bank on Canal Street on September 2, where she is accused of...

A woman accused of beating a 72-year-old man to death in a Rampart Street hotel room, leaving his hands bound and his head covered in a plastic bag, will be held on a $750,000 bond, a magistrate judge has ruled. Police arrested Feliciana Winniford, 38, on one count of second-degree...

The Port of New Orleans is moving forward with its plan to build a grain transfer facility on the Alabo St. Wharf in the Lower Ninth Ward, despite opposition from some people who live nearby. Protestors gathered in front of the Sanchez Community Center earlier this week, where the Port...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans Police Department on Thursday released the names of three men wanted in connection with separate homicide investigations, urging the public to come forward with information. Michael Joseph Hall is wanted in the shooting death of 23-year-old Darnell Causey of New Orleans. Police...

Two men are dead after gunfire Thursday evening. “Police were called to the 9600 block of Old Gentilly Road shortly before 6:15 p.m. on a report of a shooting,”