New Orleans, LA

Baton Rouge, LA

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she opposes any changes to her use of the city-owned Upper Pontalba apartment. In a routine press conference on Wednesday (March 29) Mayor Cantrell also said there is nothing inappropriate about her security team members running her personal errands. The...

Mayor Cantrell again defends use of Pontalba, opposes possible rule changes

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans food vendors say a decades-old ordinance has locked them out of a lucrative part of the city and given a monopoly to one company. Now, District C Councilman Freddie King says it’s time to reexamine that ordinance. The ordinance was put in place...

Zurik: New Orleans councilmember calls for changes to French Quarter food cart ordinance

Louisiana State

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A New Orleans City Council member says the Council will take action to lay out exactly how an apartment on the edge of Jackson Square, that has traditionally been reserved for the mayor’s office, can be used. Councilman Eugene Green says putting regulations in place for the Upper Pontalba Apartment unit is long overdue.

ZURIK: City Council to outline uses for Upper Pontalba Apartment unit

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A New Orleans man accused of murdering a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy in 2016 has succeeded in having his death penalty case assigned to a different judge. The Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 28) reversed the decisions of two lower courts and agreed...

New Orleans man accused of killing JPSO deputy succeeds in getting case assigned to new judge

Slidell, LA

SLIDELL, La. (WVUE) - Two men are dead after what authorities with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office are saying is likely a murder-suicide. Authorities confirmed the deaths of two men early Wednesday (March 29) morning as they were still processing the scene. A SWAT team was activated late...

SWAT standoff ends with suspected murder-suicide in Slidell

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Two high school seniors from New Orleans East have caused a stir among mathematicians at a recent conference. The St. Mary’s Academy students say they’re showing a new way to look at a two-thousand-year-old formula. You might remember, or happily forgot, the Pythagorean theorem...

Two New Orleans teens make math discovery 2,000 years in the making

Rolling Fork, MS

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A Dillard University student from Rolling Fork, Miss., prepares to go home for the first time since a deadly tornado devastated the city last Friday. Rolling Fork was all Markeyah Moore knew before starting nursing school in New Orleans. Now, the life she knew lays flattened by an EF-4 tornado.

Dillard University student returns home to tornado devastation

Washington State

Jefferson Parish, LA

Kenner, LA

METAIRIE, La. (WVUE) - A recommendation to shutter and consolidate eight Jefferson Parish public schools amid declining enrollment was not well received by some parents, students and community activists. The proposal from a consulting firm hired by the Jefferson Parish Public Schools was unveiled Monday night at a district board...

Some parents, community activists oppose school closures proposed for Jefferson Parish

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The family of a New Orleans Lyft driver reportedly killed by his passenger is passing on their thanks to the community for raising enough money to send their loved one’s body home to Honduras. Marvin Enrique Bardales Valle, 32, was shot and killed just after...

Family of slain Lyft driver raises enough money to send his body back to Honduras

Texas State

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The James Beard Foundation named the finalists Wednesday for its 2023 awards - the equivalent of the Oscars of the restaurant world. Two New Orleans chefs and the iconic Angelo Broato Bakery are in the running for the prestigious awards. Chef Serigne Mbaye at Dakar NOLA...

2 New Orleans chefs and an iconic bakery are 2023 James Beard Award finalists

Mississippi State

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The devastation is widespread in the aftermath of a deadly tornado that swept through Rolling Fork and other parts of Mississippi last Friday night, and Louisianans are in the area to help the survivors. Maj. Christopher Thornhill, area commander for the Salvation Army of Greater New...

Louisiana charities help Mississippi tornado victims

Raceland, LA

RACELAND, La. (WVUE) - A Raceland man whose 6-year-old son was fatally shot in February has been booked with negligent homicide for not securing the loaded handgun in his house, Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre announced Monday (March 27). Davonta Michel, 24, could face up to five years in state...

Raceland father booked with negligent homicide in 6-year-old son’s shooting death

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New NOPD Crime Lab director making much-needed DNA lab a top priority

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The $25 million New Orleans crime lab building remains under construction as the city works to once again get its own forensic...

New NOPD Crime Lab director making much-needed DNA lab a top priority

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