New Orleans, LA

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The NOLA Coalition launched a new dashboard that tracks how many officers are employed by the New Orleans Police Department. The NOPD Recruiting and Retention Dashboard tracks how many officers are new hires and provides estimates on what we can expect in the department over the next few years.

New dashboard tracks NOPD recruiting, retention

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

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

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

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Standing side-by-side, dozens of people from New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport gathered Wednesday (March 29) at Drago’s in Metairie. All of them were united together - representing a loved one who was shot or killed by gun violence. Among them was Sherilyn Price, whose...

Proposed Louisiana bill would make criminal and juvenile case info more accessible in three parishes

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

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

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) - 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

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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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

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Fox 8 Defenders: Apple Air Tags help locate stolen Hyundai in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Owners of Kias and Hyundais are looking for alternative solutions to a chronic theft problem, popularized by a group of thieves on...

Fox 8 Defenders: Apple Air Tags help locate stolen Hyundai in New Orleans

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