'I just think I do my job'| Kenner Officer Clarence Carr reflects after pulling four from sinking car

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 — 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...

NEW ORLEANS — ATM thieves have struck again in New Orleans. This time it happened Uptown at a gas station convenience store. Workers at the Tchoup Stop spent the day cleaning up. According to a store employee, security video shows a white Ford pickup truck with a metal bumper...

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...

KENNER, La. — For the second time, a Jefferson Parish jury found Viusqui Perez-Espinosa guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s new lover, Ives Alexis Portales-Lara, dismembering his body, and disposing of the body parts in a St. John the Baptist swamp back in 2016. Perez-Espinosa, 45, was first convicted...

NEW ORLEANS — Homeowners in the Carrolton area are saying they need help getting an abandoned hauling truck that’s becoming an eyesore removed from their neighborhood. Jason Dumas said the truck has been parked on Fern Street for several weeks, and now it’s becoming a dumpster of sorts alongside a major construction zone that has made roads surrounding his home impassable.

NEW ORLEANS — The suspect booked with negligent homicide in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old girl Sunday told detectives that “he was playing with a gun” that belonged to a friend when it accidentally discharged, according to court records. Kennedi Belton, a freshman at Warren Easton...

NEW ORLEANS — A freshman who attended Warren Easton High School was shot and killed this weekend while at a girls' sleepover. A 19-year-old has been arrested, but the family still has a lot of questions about what happened. Kennedi Belton was 15 years old. "Kennedi laughed all day,...

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 — After a spike in thefts thanks to a vulnerability in their vehicles’ ignition system, Kia and Hyundai tell Eyewitness News they are both working on software updates to protect their vehicles most vulnerable to theft. Several models of Kia and Hyundai vehicles, which do not...

SLIDELL, La. — The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office said they arrested four suspects after a January 28 shooting left a Slidell man with life-threatening injuries, according to a press release. Slidell Police Department was investigating the shooting but turned it over to STPSO after they determined the shooting...

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a homicide in the 2000 block of Constance Street Sunday night. NOPD officers responded to the scene at around 8:27 p.m. on Sunday night and found a man with multiple gunshot wounds. The man died at the scene, according...

NEW ORLEANS — While New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announces that crime tracking data shows a downward trend in the first few weeks of 2023, The New Orleans Police Department is still dealing with violent crime in the streets on a nearly daily basis. Overnight, two people became the...

HOUMA, La. — A Louisiana State Police investigation into insurance fraud resulted in 16 arrests in the Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. In May of 2021, the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit Houma Field Office began investigating a complaint of criminal fraud against a supplemental health insurance provider.

NEW ORLEANS — Acting New Orleans Police Chief Michelle Woodfork announced her new plan to reduce the city's crime problem on Thursday. "We're as tired of the crime as the public is," Woodfork said at a press conference. "We want to make New Orleans safe." Woodfork said her plan...

NEW ORLEANS — We’ve been following an abandoned truck in the Carrollton area on Fern street that residents say have been there for over a month. Friday afternoon, WWLTV cameras were there when a sanitation truck arrived so workers could dump the trash out of the back of the abandoned vehicle.

NEW ORLEANS — The supplemental Mardi Gras security plan in New Orleans is still a work in progress. But Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson has said there is enough interest from law enforcement across the state to be able to secure full parade routes this year. Washington Parish Sheriff...

COVINGTON, La. — Eight-year-old Jett Gremillion has been found and is safe, Louisiana State Police said Monday morning. The Level II Endangered/Missing Child Advisory for him has been canceled. -Original Story Below- Authorities are asking for the public's help to find a missing 8-year-old who they say was taken...

NEW ORLEANS — A young girl was shot and killed in the 8000 block of Curran Boulevard Sunday afternoon, according to a press release by the NOPD. Officers responded to the shooting at around 1:41 p.m. on Sunday, according to a press release. Warren Easton Charter High School identified...

NEW ORLEANS — Mardi Gras parades are made from their traditions. Krewes take pride in what they throw, the route they ride and even their day of the week. But while most parades are celebrating the return to their traditional routes this year, the krewedelusion is being pushed to a new date and route.