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A New Orleans woman is speaking out after she says her dog was violently attacked by an alligator during a walk in City Park.

A federal jury in New Orleans found 30-year-old Jovante Matthews guilty of armed carjacking, brandishing a firearm during a violent crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charges stem from an incident on April 3, 2024, on Hollygrove Street. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Matthews was also...

Mosquito control trucks are scheduled to operate between 8 p.m. and 12 a.m. in select New Orleans neighborhoods. Areas set for adult mosquito spraying include Aurora Gardens, Old Aurora, Tall Timbers-Brechtel, and a rescheduled treatment in the Seventh Ward and St. Roch, according to the City of New Orleans. The...

The New Orleans Police Department has issued a public call for assistance in identifying suspects involved in an aggravated battery and multiple aggravated assaults with a firearm that occurred on June 15, around 4:45 p.m. in the 2900 block of South Claiborne Avenue. According to the New Orleans Police Department,...

New Orleans City Council members on Thursday criticized Sheriff Susan Hutson for refusing to disclose financial information and voted to request attorney general opinions on whether they can force her to do so. The longstanding council-sheriff clash over funding for the city's jail blew up into a major issue after...

NEW ORLEANS (press release) – In response to the growing need for nurses in Louisiana and throughout the Gulf South, the University of Holy Cross Department of Nursing (UHCDON) is reaffirming its leadership in health care education by extending the application deadline for its Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)...

(NewsNation) — Authorities on Friday captured the ninth of 10 fugitives who broke out of a New Orleans jail last month. New Orleans Superintendent of Police Anne Kirkpatrick joins “CUOMO” to talk about the apprehension — and about the dangerous detainee who is still at large, Derrick Groves.

The council has worked to strip Cantrell of her contracting power at the state level. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is facing litigation due to an ongoing trash dispute that’s stinking things up, WDSU reports. Felix’s Restaurant and Oyster Bar owner Daniel Conwill and resident Marina Costopoulos filed a...

NEW ORLEANS (press release) – DePaul Community Health Centers’ (DCHC) first two dental residents of its Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program have completed their residency. Dr. Teosha Craighead and Dr. Maria Nunez began the program when it was established two years ago, in partnership with NYU Langone, to...

In summer 1905, newly minted surgeon Edith Loeber stepped off a train in New Orleans after traveling two days from New York. She’d been finishing her training at Bellevue Hospital, and was headed not to her family’s comfortable home in the Lower Garden District, but to her new job at the recently established New...