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NEW ORLEANS — A woman who lives in Bywater took to NextDoor to recount a scary incident that took place recently. Cindi Richardson says her husband was having a heart attack but an ambulance never showed up. She says she called 911 five times in 90 minutes. “The 911...

NEW ORLEANS — There's a new health warning. A drug that is used frequently in horses and cattle, is being mixed with already dangerous street drugs. And with this one, the overdose reversal drug doesn't work. There's yet another drug on the streets concerning doctors and officials. Xylazine, also...

NEW ORLEANS — According to New Orleans police, shots were fired around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning in the 4300 block of Chef Menteur Highway. When officers arrived on the scene, they found a man dead on the ground. He was shot multiple times near a bus shelter next to the Gentilly Walmart.

NEW ORLEANS — Detectives with the New Orleans Police Department are asking for the public’s help in finding a suspect and a vehicle in a homicide that happened in October 2021. The shooting happened in the 7000 block of Bullard Avenue near the I-10 Service Road in New...

The Sam family says a horse in their care got very sick, but photos of the sickly gelding essentially destroyed his career without him getting his day in court. Growing up on a farm just outside Opelousas, Thomas Sam fell in love with animals. Especially horses. After he got old...

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — An illegal drug now being sold on the Northshore can kill you. Over the weekend the parish's coroner believes it claimed the lives of three people in 24 hours in St. Tammany. “I have seen this clinical presentation over and over and over again...

NEW ORLEANS — A vehicle crash in Gentilly turns into a homicide investigation. The New Orleans Police Department is now investigating a homicide after responding to a vehicle crash at the intersection of Clover Street and Franklin Avenue Saturday evening. “Officers responding to an initial call of a vehicle...

NEW ORLEANS — Interim Superintendent Michelle Woodfork is confident her crime plan will reduce violent crime in the city, even with an understaffed department, by getting creative in working with what she has. "Are you saying we can be a safer city with just the manpower you have now?"...

NEW ORLEANS — A woman has been arrested after allegedly firing a shot at a Popeyes worker following an argument. The shooting happened Thursday at the Popeyes in the 1200 block of St. Charles Avenue. As The Times-Picayune reports, Jean Netter, 50, was arrested Friday in connection with that...

NEW ORLEANS — A Houma native has been crowned Miss Louisiana USA 2023. Sylvia Masters competed against 32 others at the Jefferson Performing Arts Center and won the 70th Miss Louisiana USA. Masters is a news anchor at KLFY News 10 in Lafayette. She sings and plays the piano...

ST. JAMES PARISH, La. — Chrystal Davis remembers the day when her son Ja’Naries Gaudia, 19, got his class ring. He was ready to leave high school behind. “This is his senior ring, graduation,” said Davis holding her son’s senior ring. “He was so excited.”

NEW ORLEANS — Preventing illegal dumping has long been a problem for the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. Now city leaders are threatening to take the vehicle of anyone caught dumping tires and other material. Councilman Oliver Thomas says he’s fed up with illegal dumpers...

NEW ORLEANS — Cellphone video shows a loud commotion inside the front lobby of the Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in the 1200 block of St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. Brady Chiasson shot the video around 6:45 p.m., just moments before a shooting there Thursday night. “This lady went to...

METAIRIE, La. — A motorcyclist died after being involved in a crash with an SUV in Metairie on Tuesday, according to Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. The press release from JPSO said that deputies were dispatched after 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday to a report of a crash between a motorcycle and sport utility vehicle at the intersection of West William David Parkway and Veterans Memorial Boulevard.

BOGALUSA, La. — The Bogalusa Police Department says their officers have arrested five juveniles in connection to the December homicide of 15-year-old Ronnie “King” Taylor. Taylor was killed in a shooting at another 15-year-old’s birthday party on Warren Street in Bogalusa. “On Tuesday, February 07, 2023,...

SLIDELL, La. — Authorities have identified the body of a man found dead alongside a Slidell road early Monday morning. The St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office said 57-year-old Chris E. Warren of Slidell, La., was discovered alongside Manzella Road near Slidell in the early morning hours. The man's death was reported to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office.

NEW ORLEANS — The crime in the city often comes up in regular conversations as it impacts so many New Orleanians. As the interim NOPD chief laid out her plans, locals shared their thoughts. Stan Norwood is a barber at Dennis' Barber Shop. He works to mentor his young...

NEW ORLEANS — Orleans Parish Coroner Dwight McKenna deals with death every day. In 2022, nearly 500 of those deaths were from overdoses — most of them caused by Fentanyl. "I've never seen anything like this," McKenna said. "I like to call Fentanyl the Angel of Death." In...

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a briefing last week, the city’s call for law enforcement help from across the state was a success and Mardi Gras krewes can return to their traditional parade routes. “Jeanerette for example, wow, you know, Tangipahoa, wow and...

NEW ORLEANS — Two New Orleans police officers who were exposed to fentanyl three weeks ago while responding to a call, needed Narcan to recover from the exposure, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Wednesday morning at her weekly press briefing. Cantrell said that the officers picked up a bag or...