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Ed Sheeran debuts new song in New Orleans with a surprise parade and the Soul Rebels
Ed Sheeran popped into New Orleans on Saturday to premiere a new song, “Azizam,” on the streets of the French Quarter with a little help from the Soul Rebels. At 11 a.m., the pop star emerged from a black SUV with tinted windows parked across from Jackson Square on Decatur Street in front of Washington Artillery Park. Normally street performers entertain tourists seated on the steps of the park’s small amphitheater.
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XULA Athletic Hall of Fame Member Donald “Slick” Watts Dies at Age Of 73
NEW ORLEANS — Basketball player Donald “Slick” Watts, one of the brightest stars in Xavier University of Louisiana’s athletic constellation, died Saturday (March 15, 2025). He was 73 years old. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. Watts’ health declined after a stroke in April 2021.
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Stine Home & Yard Breaks Ground on Expansion
Stine Home & Yard, which operates 12 stores in Louisiana and one in Mississippi, celebrated the groundbreaking of a major expansion at its location in DeRidder, Louisiana. This marks the third expansion for Stine in DeRidder. “DeRidder is my home. I’m so proud to be here,” says Wendy Stine, president...
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INVESTIGATIVE UNIT: Southern puts assistant band director on leave amid probe into death of fraternity pledge
BATON ROUGE — The assistant director of bands at Southern University has been placed on administrative leave for 30 days amid the campus' investigation into the death of a band member at an Omega Psi Phi initiation event last month. Caleb Wilson, 20, died what police are investigating as...
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Body discovered in ditch near Shadow Creek Apartments
WEST MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — Authorities have confirmed that a body was found in a ditch near Shadow Creek Apartments in West Monroe, La. At this time, West Monroe Police are working the scene and limited details are available. We will continue to follow this story and provide updates on air and online at myarklamiss.com.
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Higher ed is in crisis. These experts have advice for colleges trying to survive.
The grim financial situation at the University of New Orleans, where decades of low enrollment and financial missteps have culminated in a $10 million budget deficit, is becoming increasingly common on campuses across the country. As many as two-thirds of colleges and universities in the U.S. have over the last...
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'Unprecedented and wrong': New Orleans demonstrators protest Musk, Tesla as 'takedowns' spread globally
Steven Lindsley is an Army veteran who protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s, opposed Republican President Richard Nixon in the 1970s, and led a recall effort against Gov. Edwin Edwards, a Democrat, in the 1990s. On Friday, he joined more than 70 demonstrators outside a Tesla Service Center on...
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Nine Louisiana residents sentenced to federal prison for trafficking meth from Houston
Nine Louisiana residents have been sentenced to prison terms after a drug trafficking investigation in Avoyelles Parish, according to a news release. An investigation into methamphetamine distribution in Avoyelles Parish was started by the FBI Central Louisiana Gang Task Force, reads the release from acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. It included surveillance and authorized wire tapes for phones being used to traffic drugs, it reads. Those wiretaps supplied investigators with "numerous communications between the defendants wherein they discussed their narcotics trafficking," reads the release. The longest sentence was more than 18 years, and each defendant will be...
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Newell: New Orleans leads the country in population shrinkage; we can’t have another 8 years of a Cantrell(esque) administration
Since 2020, about 28,400 people have left the city for other pastures. Nearly two-thirds of Louisiana parishes saw their populations dwindle last year. And Orleans Parish is shrinking by the highest rate. (See more on WWL and Audacy)
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Teen catches tagged Toledo Bend bass
That question has to be on bass fishermen’s lips after 15-year-old Thomas Deshotels of Kinder caught an 11.53-pound bass in a creek that feeds Toledo Bend’s Housen Bay. When Deshotels arrived at Buckeye Landing on Saturday, March 8, to have the fish measured and its weight certified for the Toledo Bend Lunker Bass Program, it was discovered that the fish was tagged – from being caught earlier as part of the program. A quick check of the records showed the fish had been caught by Craig Bean of Lake Charles on Jan. 15 in Housen Bay, about a quarter-mile from where Deshotels fooled it with a black/blue ChatterBait.