New Orleans, LA

Mandeville, LA

MANDEVILLE, La. — A doorbell camera captured the frightening moment when a pickup truck crashed into the rear of a school bus in Mandeville that had stopped to pick up a child. The incident occurred Tuesday morning outside a home in the 300 block of Marina Boulevard in the...

Watch: Doorbell cam captures terrifying moment a truck slams into a school bus, child nearby

Kenner, LA

KENNER, La. — Police are looking for a man who went missing in Kenner on March 11, according to a press release. Juan Keith Reid was last seen on March 11 walking away from his vehicle in Kenner. The release said that Reid, who is black, may have a...

Police looking for Kenner man missing since March 11

Slidell, LA

SLIDELL, La. — Two men were discovered dead inside a Slidell home following an hours-long standoff with the St Tammany Sheriff’s Office and SWAT team Tuesday evening into the early hours Wednesday morning. St Tammany Sheriff’s Office Investigator Lieutenant Larry Hudson says the department received a 911 call...

2 men dead following an hours-long SWAT standoff at a Slidell home

NEW ORLEANS — Despite an effort to push back the trial for the teens in Linda Frickey’s case, on Monday a judge decided that the trial will begin in one week. Frickey was carjacked and dragged to her death last year. The teen defendants did not make an...

Judge denies request to delay trial in deadly carjacking of Linda Frickey

NEW ORLEANS — A judge in Orleans Parish determined that a second teen accused in the brutal carjacking and death of Linda Frickey is competent to stand trial. Mar’Qel Curtis, 16, is the second teen of the four teens accused to be found competent by a court-appointed psychiatrist. The psychiatrist testified that Curtis understood the consequences he faces at trial.

Second teen accused in deadly carjacking of Linda Frickey competent to stand trial

NEW ORLEANS — For Ian Wilson it was a typical workday. His commute began in Algiers shortly before 8 a.m. Wilson said he was near General DeGaulle and Shirley Drive when he noticed a black SUV. “The whole time through the light they were just blaring on their horn...

Witness recounts terrifying morning commute during shooting, chase on CCC

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family says they're fed up with false promises they say continual maintenance issues at their apartment have all come to a head. Apartment O217 at Lakewood Pointe Apartments. According to the New Orleans Fire Department, they received a call of an electrical fire just after 1 p.m. Tuesday.

New Orleans family says their apartment is falling apart and is demanding action

NEW ORLEANS — Heads are rolling at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, with four high-ranking employees being told they are out of a job amid long-standing turmoil inside the office, according to multiple sources inside and outside the sheriff’s office. Some of those contentious issues were uncovered...

Orleans sheriff getting rid of 4 top assistants

Mississippi State

Louisiana State

LOUISIANA, USA — A tornado watch has been issued Sunday for parts of Louisiana and Mississippi. The watch was issued at 4:00 PM Sunday afternoon and will last until 11:00 PM on Sunday night, according to the New Orleans National Weather Service. The NWS New Orleans said that the...

Tornado watch issued for parts of Louisiana until 11:00 PM Sunday

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said on Wednesday that the NOPD is now in compliance with a more than decade-long reform agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. Last summer she filed court documents to terminate the consent decree. The document spelled out what the department...

NOPD in compliance with federal consent decree, Mayor Cantrell says

Arabi, LA

NEW ORLEANS — Wednesday marks one year since a powerful EF-3 tornado tore through Arabi. But how often does Louisiana see powerful tornadoes? And have they become more frequent?. We took a closer look at the data from the “Tornado Archive” in your Breakdown. The Tornado Archive is an...

The Breakdown: Have powerful tornadoes become more frequent in Louisiana?

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'They took my best friend' - teen remembers 15-year-old lost to weekend gunshot

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...

'They took my best friend' - teen remembers 15-year-old lost to weekend gunshot

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