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Officials gathered Thursday to mark the ceremonial opening of a new Love's Travel Stop at Interstate 12 and La. 1088 near Mandeville, the first business up and running at a massive industrial park that parish officials and developers hope will attract new warehouses and distribution centers to the I-12 corridor...

A late-night shooting in New Orleans East left one man dead and another person injured, according to local authorities. Police are still investigating the incident and have not yet released many details about what led to the gunfire. One Man Killed, Another Injured in New Orleans East Shooting. A man...

On March 11, the New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission denied an application to demolish an early-20th century single shotgun at 2745 Banks St. in Mid-City. The house is owned by the local nonprofit Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, a land trust and housing rights organization with a...

The New Orleans-based band J & The Causeways will bring their message of self-empowerment and love, told through soul, rock and funk, to the Yampa Valley on Saturday. The band will take to the Steamboat Square stage at 3:30 p.m. March 14 for a free concert at Steamboat Resort. Their performance will feature an...

In New York City, brothers Alex and Miles Pincus have built a restaurant group called Crew. It’s known for beautiful settings, including on historic sailing vessels, and for a fixation on oysters. The brothers came to love oysters naturally while growing up in New Orleans, where they also learned...

The U.S. Marshals Service announced the arrest of a man who was wanted for vehicular homicide in a fiery drunk driving crash that killed Xavier University graduate Patricia Saidu six months ago. Manmeet Singh, 30, was apprehended Friday in Madison, Miss., according to Louisiana State Police. Agents took him into...

Mayor Helena Moreno announced Thursday that Susannah Kirby, the Sewerage and Water Board’s chief of customer service, will be the next director of the city’s Department of Safety and Permits. Kirby will lead a department whose dysfunction Moreno has called the biggest barrier to businesses trying to open...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A woman was carjacked late Friday night (March 13) near the Fair Grounds area by two men wielding a gun and a hammer, New Orleans police said. According to the NOPD, the woman was sitting in her car parked in the 2700 block of D’Abadie Street when two men wearing face masks and all-black clothing...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A witness in the federal trial against two New Orleans injury attorneys apologized to jurors Friday for his role in an alleged staged car crash scheme, telling them he was partly responsible for raising insurance prices across the state. Damian Labeaud, described by prosecutors as an...

More than 50 civilian employees at the New Orleans Police Department will be furloughed for weeks this year as the city grapples with a $222 million budget deficit incurred by the previous administration. Furloughed employees must take one day off per pay period under a sliding scale that requires between...