CRIME & SAFETY
NOPD: Juvenile male shot, killed in Algiers
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Police Department says a juvenile male was shot and killed Monday night in Algiers. The shooting happened at the intersection of General Meyer Avenue and Murl Street. Officers responded to a call of a shooting around 8:33 p.m., according to investigators. When they arrived,...
New Orleans man who went on 2022 killing spree sentenced to four mandatory life sentences
A New Orleans man who killed four people in 2022 was sentenced to life in prison on Monday. An Orleans Parish jury found Tyrone Steele guilty earlier this month after he went on a killing spree in the Seventh Ward, Gentilly, and New Orleans East. A judge sentenced him to...
2-month-old dies after found unresponsive on Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans police say
A two-month-old was found unresponsive on Chef Menteur Highway Sunday morning, according to the New Orleans Police Department. Police responded to a call at 9:10 am in the 14700 block of Chef Menteur Highway, and found the two-month-old boy unresponsive. The New Orleans Fire Department and EMS performed CPR on...
New Orleans man sentenced in 2021 fatal shooting at River Ridge apartment complex
A New Orleans man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Thursday after he agreed to plead guilty in a fatal River Ridge shooting, Jefferson Parish court records said. Elias Jackson, 35, was indicted with second-degree murder for the 2021 shooting death of 21-year-old Rodney Antoine Jr., of Gretna. But...
Heroic schoolbus driver saves 9 kids from faulty bus seconds before it explodes in ball of flames
Bus driver Kia Rousseve has been branded ‘courage on wheels’ for her ‘heroic’ actions as her faulty bus exploded just seconds after she ushered nine kids from the vehicle
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