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Kenner council member alleges public intimidation by mayor’s official

A Kenner city councilman filed a report with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, alleging public intimidation by the mayor’s chief administrative officer. The report was then referred to the Louisiana Attorney General’s office. Councilmember Joey LaHatte said he and his assistant were unable to access his office...

Kenner, LA · 1d

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Man allegedly claiming to have bomb arrested at MSY

A man is in police custody after a bomb scare at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

Jefferson Parish, LA · 8h

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St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office Describes Juvenile as Runaway

The St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office is seeking information about a juvenile it described as a runaway. In a post on its Facebook page, the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office described the juvenile as a runaway. Anyone with information is urged to come forward. How to Report Information. The sheriff's...

St Charles Parish, LA · 22h

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Overturned tanker leaking molasses and oil on Highway 90 East, St. Charles Parish deputies say

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Deputies are on scene at a vehicle crash on the I-310 north on-ramp from Highway 90 east due to an over-tuned tanker. Molasses is leaking from the tanker and oil is leaking from the truck, deputies said. I-310 north on-ramp from Highway 90 east is closed...

St Charles Parish, LA · 4h

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Jefferson Parish woman evicted by landlord with history of code violations

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A Jefferson Parish landlord with a history of code enforcement violations in two parishes evicted a young single mom from one of his apartments. She admits she stopped paying rent, blaming deplorable and unsafe living conditions inside. But as we discovered in this FOX 8 Defenders...

Jefferson Parish, LA · 16h

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Three family members arrested in Luling narcotics investigation

A husband, wife and their son were arrested Nov. 3 following a narcotics investigation at their Luling residence, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office. Deputies executed arrest and […]

Luling, LA · 4h

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Northshore priest arrested for alleged embezzlement

Cops today arrested a priest who church officials reported was stealing money from a Northshore parish."Detectives with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Financial Crimes Unit launched an investigation after personnel with Archdiocese of New Orleans contacted them in August to report discrepancies involving the finances at St. Jane de Chantal Parish in Abita Springs,"

Abita Springs, LA · 1d

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10 Iconic Restaurants In Louisiana With Steaks So Good You’ll Crave Them All Year

In Louisiana, a steak can land on your table still crackling in a plate of hot butter. That style dates back to the 1930s, and I’m choosing to be very excited about it. Am I making too big a deal out of this? Possibly. But the butter is only one chapter.

Louisiana · 1d

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This New Orleans bartender holds down Buffa’s graveyard shift with an unlikely weapon: Malört

Danyell Prestridge doesn’t particularly enjoy drinking Malört. But, then again, does anyone?. The bitter digestif has long been a rite of passage for locals in its hometown of Chicago, admired there for its intense flavor despite being described by its own distiller as “not a drink for most people.”

New Orleans, LA · 6h

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Two killed, two wounded in violent stretch in New Orleans

Cops say a woman and a man are dead and two other men are recovering from bullet wounds after a violent 24 hours in New Orleans.

New Orleans, LA · 1d

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Police investigate early-morning shooting in Seventh District

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Two men arrived at separate hospitals early Monday morning (Nov. 9), NOPD said. Officers received a call at 2:01 a.m. about a male victim who arrived at a hospital, suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. NOPD is investigating an aggravated battery by shooting; the location...

New Orleans, LA · 1d

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40-year sentence for gunman guilty of teen's Marrero killing: 'I do not hate you'

A Jefferson Parish judge on Monday handed down a 40-year sentence to a defendant convicted of killing an 18-year-old boy in a Marrero parking lot, according to the Jefferson Parish District Attorney's Office. Cashmere Butler was just 17 years old when prosecutors say he gunned down Samuel Tague, of Belle...

Marrero, LA · 22h

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Forty Years In, This Riverbend Cottage Still Takes Reservations Only by Telephone

Brigtsen's turns 40 this year, and the restaurant still will not take a reservation online. Frank Brigtsen started cooking in 1973 while attending LSU. By 1979 he was apprenticing at Commander's Palace under Paul Prudhomme, and in 1980 he became the first night chef at K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen when that restaurant began serving dinner. Over […]

New Orleans, LA · 1d

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Wet wedding: Dancing in flood waters at Louisiana wedding party

A Louisiana couple, Casey and Oliva Field, found out that a flooded wedding party could still be fun, when their wedding reception at a venue got six inches of rain.

Metairie, LA · 1d

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These 7 shopping centers started Louisiana's suburban mall era. In 2026 only some of them are still enclosed malls.

Ground was broken for Shreve City Shopping Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, in November 1958, and the center held its first opening in June 1959. It was suburban shopping of the postwar kind: a large cluster of stores on Shreveport-Barksdale Highway, laid out for people who arrived by car. Shreve City kept building after it opened.

Shreveport, LA · 18h

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Recap: Gayle Benson speaks at ribbon cutting for The Debra H. and Robert J. Patrick Neuroscience Institute

New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson attended the Ochsner Health ribbon cutting for The Debra H. and Robert J. Patrick Neuroscience Institute on Oct. 1, 2026. The Patrick Neuroscience Institute is home to the Team Gleason Assistive Technology Lab to provide Ochsner patients living with ALS and other neurological conditions access to advanced communication devices, mobility solutions and environmental control technologies that promote independence and daily functioning.

New Orleans, LA · 4h

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Florestine Perrault Collins Passed for White to Learn the Trade, Then Ran a Black Portrait Studio in New Orleans for Twenty-Nine Years

Florestine Perrault was fourteen when she started earning money in photography, hired as a clerk, photo finisher, stationery embosser, and developer by white-owned studios in New Orleans and by the Eastman Kodak Company. She got that work by letting her employers assume she was white. She was Creole of color, and in Jim Crow New Orleans, that fact would have kept her away from the picture-making end of the business.

New Orleans, LA · 23h

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Arrest made in connection with Desire neighborhood homicide, NOPD reports

A 19-year-old is in police custody for his alleged involvement in a murder that occurred in the Desire neighborhood last month, New Orleans Police said.

New Orleans, LA · 5h

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The WWII Museum Covers Six Buildings, and One Ticket Does Not Cover All of It

Historian Stephen Ambrose spent decades collecting oral histories from D-Day veterans before realizing the country had no museum built to hold them. He founded The National WWII Museum in New Orleans for a specific reason. Andrew Jackson Higgins and 30,000 Louisiana workers designed, built, and tested 20,000 Higgins boats here, the landing craft that carried […]

New Orleans, LA · 1d

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Giant Puppets and Silent Disco Return to Downtown New Orleans for LUNA Fête

Giant lantern mermaids, a 24-foot harlequin clown, and a parading gar fish are converging on downtown New Orleans this week as LUNA Fête returns for its 12th edition, running Nov. 13-15 from 5 to 10 p.m. nightly. The free light and art festival, themed The Puppetry Parade this year, brings projection mapping, puppeteer-driven sculptures, and a multichannel silent disco to a stretch of the Warehouse District.

New Orleans, LA · 1d