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Family feels killing of Brittany Ussin points to a bigger problem leading to violence
NEW ORLEANS — Under the setting sun in Algiers Monday evening, a video posted to social media shows a fight that turned deadly on Ptolemy Street, next to McDonough Playground. Twenty-seven seconds after the fight started you can hear what sounds like a gunshot. Brittany Ussin, 25, was shot....
Doorbell video captures man robbing construction workers
NEW ORLEANS — Monday afternoon, Michael and Earl Benjamin-Robinson were inside their home in Gentilly, going about their day as usual, with no idea what was taking place right on their doorstep. “I went downstairs, and they said we’ve just been robbed,” Benjamin-Robinson said. Chilling doorbell video...
Two displaced, several cats dead in Westwego house fire, officials say
Two people were displaced and several cats were killed in a two-alarm fire that ignited at a Westwego house early Wednesday morning, according to Westwego Volunteer Fire Company No. 1. Firefighters were dispatched to the 1100 block of Avenue D at 2:21 a.m., where heavy, black smoke was billowing from...
Landfill fire that sent smoke over Jefferson Parish started in sugar cane, LDEQ says
A landfill fire that sent dark plumes of smoke wafting over the West Bank into Kenner was started in sugar cane waste, officials said Tuesday. Employees noticed a fire around 2 p.m. Monday at the River Birch Landfill on U.S. 90 near Waggaman and Avondale, said Chance Townsend, spokesperson for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.
New Orleans man convicted of killing 2 bicyclists on Endymion night loses appeal for second sentence reduction
A man who was convicted of killing two bicyclists after the Endymion parade in 2019 has lost his appeal for a second sentence reduction. In 2022, Tashonty Toney was sentenced to 90 years in jail, the maximum sentence he could be given for the crime. Judge Laure White, who has...
New Orleans serial killer who targeted gay men granted parole after 46 years inside Angola
Warren Harris Jr. sat behind a stack of papers last week at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, a handkerchief at the ready for the tears that had begun to fall behind his glasses. Nearly a half-century ago, at age 16 and high on drugs in New Orleans, Harris robbed and fatally...
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