‘She Didn’t Deserve This’: New Orleans Woman Killed And Buried In Backyard By Boyfriend
What should have been a simple summer Saturday turned into a devastating day for the family of Essence Peters, a 24-year-old New… The post ‘She Didn’t Deserve This’: New Orleans Woman Killed And Buried In Backyard By Boyfriend appeared first on Shine My Crown .
New Orleans events: Running of the NOLA Bulls, ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and more on...
Looking for more to do this week? Check out the latest on Gambit's calendar at calendar.gambitweekly.com. The Running of the NOLA Bulls is the highlight of the weekend-long San Fermin in Nueva Orleans festival. Events mirror festivities of the annual bull run in Pamplona, Spain. The NOLA “bulls” are roller derby...
ESSENCE Fest’s Hurricane Royale Cocktail Competition Was A Whole Vibe —Thanks To Big Freedia
The Queen Diva brought the bounce, the crowd brought the hype, and NOLA’s top mixologists brought the rum. Rum lovers represent! If you’ve been to New Orleans, you know Hurricanes – the cocktail – are ubiquitous. Frozen, on the rocks, with fruit, or with extra rum floaters, there are infinite varieties of this...
New book about John T. Scott details life of the daring New Orleans artist
“Passing It On: The Art of John T. Scott,” by Freddi Williams Evans and Anna Rita Scott, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 120 pages. The multimedia New Orleans artist and teacher John T. Scott often ended class with his signature phrase. “Pass it on,” he’d tell his students: simultaneously a farewell salute, a...
Summer days are ahead this week
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Summer weather is on the way this week. Highs stay around 92-94 all week long. Rain chances are slightly higher Sunday and Monday as an upper-level low passes by. Watch for lightning, gusty winds and heavy rain. Tuesday and Wednesday could be a bit drier, but...
Bank robbery nets Slidell man 45 years in prison
COVINGTON --- District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on July 2, 2025, 50-year-old Herbert Davis of Slidell pled guilty to armed robbery with a firearm and was sentenced by Judge Vincent Lobello to 45 years in prison without benefit of parole. Assistant District Attorneys Tiffany Dover and Shelby Stoop prosecuted...
Cops ask for help finding child kidnapped Sunday night
NOPD is looking for a little boy they say was abducted. “New Orleans Police are asking the public’s assistance with locating a kidnapped juvenile,” according to a news release. “Kidnapped is Jayceon Comeaux
New Orleans homicide rates at an all time low in first six months of...
Once known as the murder capital, New Orleans has reduced violent crime to new levels.
Cops trying to identify seven burglars in French Quarter
The NOPD says a group of people broke into a French Quarter business Saturday. “New Orleans Police are asking the public’s assistance with identifying and locating seven (7) suspects wanted for business burglary,”
Experts devastated after discovering dangerous fish they had nearly eradicated: ‘I feel like we...
The first cleanup cost between $500,000 and $1 million. Experts devastated after discovering dangerous fish they had nearly eradicated: 'I feel like we really almost did it' first appeared on The Cool Down .