New Orleans, LA

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A 16-year-old boy sustained several gunshot wounds Saturday afternoon (March 25) in the Plum Orchard section of New Orleans East, police said. The NOPD said the victim was sitting on a front porch around 1:35 p.m., in the 4700 block of Rhodes Drive, when two unknown assailants approached from the side of the house and started shooting.

Teen shot Saturday in Plum Orchard neighborhood, NOPD says

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) - Alonzo Knox was elected Saturday (March 25) to Louisiana’s House of Representatives, filling the New Orleans-based District 93 seat left vacant after Royce Duplessis was voted into the state senate last November. Knox, a former US Marine and owner of Treme’s Backatown Coffee Parlour with...

Knox wins runoff for 93rd District state representative seat

METAIRIE, La. (WVUE) - Hundreds of runners and walkers turned out Sunday morning (March 26) for a race event through a unique -- and mostly quiet -- course. The “Walk/Run Through History” had competitors traversing a 1-kilometer course or a more challenging 5K course winding through the grounds and past the gravestones and crypts of the Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home and Cemeteries.

Hundreds turn out Sunday for race through Metairie cemetery

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Four high-ranking members of the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office were given the option to resign or be terminated, sources tell Fox 8. Sources tell Fox 8 that the employees in question are Assistant Sheriff Kristen Morales, Assistant Sheriff Pearlina Thomas, Chief Financial Officer David Trautenberg, and Legal Counsel Graham Bosworth.

Sources: 4 top Orleans Sheriff employees asked to resign or be terminated

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Jazz musician Kermit Ruffins and his partner, Harmonese Pleasant, are celebrating a major milestone for their daughter. A year ago, the expecting mother was shot in the stomach while walking in the Treme neighborhood. She was forced into an emergency C-section. The bullet grazed baby blossom’s...

Kermit Ruffins celebrates daughter’s milestone a year later after being born partially paralyzed

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - With hurricane season just over two months away, the Army Corps of Engineers has begun work to repair New Orleans pumping stations after a surprise corrosion problem was discovered at the London Canal Station. The pump’s life expectancy is supposed to be 30 more years, but...

Army Corps of Engineers began repair on New Orleans pumping stations after corrosion discovered

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - It’s the start of a new work week and some stormy periods are on the way over the next day or so. Rain showers could be a problem as early as this morning as a weak front just sits stalled across the area. Now any rain early today will likely just be showers but as we get some heating going, I do expect a few more storms to pop by this afternoon. Overall rain coverage today will be around 60% with rain expected at times. Highs by afternoon should top out around 80.

Storm chances remain to start the week

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Loyola University New Orleans welcomes Xavier Cole, Ed.D, as its first African American president. He will officially become the university’s 18th leader on June 1. University leaders held an outdoor ceremony to introduce Dr. Cole to Loyola’s campus. There he received a Loyola jersey bearing...

Loyola University New Orleans introduces its first African American president

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New Orleans mayor says violent crime trending down, ‘encouraging’

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she’s encouraged by violent crime trends in the city. In a press conference on Wednesday (Feb....

New Orleans mayor says violent crime trending down, ‘encouraging’

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