Vacherie, 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

New Orleans, LA

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a homicide where a man was fatally shot in Mid-City Wednesday afternoon, according to a press release. The NOPD said they found a man with a gunshot wound near the intersection of Ulloa and South Pierce Streets at around 5:54 p.m. on Wednesday.

New Orleans Police investigating Mid-City homicide

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

Baton Rouge, LA

PORT ALLEN, La. — Two Baton Rouge police officers died on Sunday when their helicopter crashed into a sugarcane field in West Baton Rouge Parish, authorities said. WBRZ-TV reports that the Robinson R-44 helicopter went out at 2 a.m. to help with a police pursuit and never returned. The aircraft's disappearance wasn't noticed for several hours before a search was launched. The wreckage was found before 11 a.m.

Two dead after Baton Rouge police helicopter struck tree, crashes in field

Louisiana State

BATON ROUGE, La. — Two Baton Rouge Police Department pilots were killed when their police helicopter crashed in a cane field in West Baton Rouge Parish Sunday morning. Authorities say the crash happened around 11:30 a.m. near North Winterville Road, and U.S. 190. State Police, BRPD, and the WBR...

2 pilots killed after their Baton Rouge Police Department helicopter crashes in a cane field

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans school bus driver reportedly said her bus was having mechanical issues before it ignited on Wednesday. Video circulating on social media captured the bus burning on South Galvez Street near Earhart Boulevard. Firefighters at the scene told WWL-TV that the driver said she was driving on the interstate when she noticed some mechanical issues and pulled over. That's when the bus caught fire.

Video captures New Orleans school bus engulfed in flames

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Metairie, LA

METAIRIE, La. — Students at Grace King High School in Metairie briefly walked out of class on Wednesday to protest proposed changes that would close seven schools across Jefferson Parish. Earlier this week, a third-party consultant recommended that the Jefferson Parish School Board close Grace King High, Gretna Middle,...

'Save Grace King' Students walk out of class to save their school

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

Mississippi State

SILVER CITY, Mississippi — When tornados hit north Mississippi Friday night, it didn’t take long for the United Cajun Navy to load up a refrigerated truck in Baton Rouge. “We loaded that up with perishables and we sent some volunteers with that truck up there,” said Cajun Nave Vice President Brian Trascher.

Louisiana volunteers provide food, shelter for Mississippi town decimated by tornado

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Nashville, TN

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A former student killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday, armed with two “assault-style” weapons and a handgun after elaborately planning the massacre by drawing out a detailed map and conducting surveillance of the building, police said.

One of the victims in Nashville shooting was a Baton Rouge native

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

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

Houma, LA

Terrebonne Parish, LA

TERREBONNE PARISH, La. — Down the bayou in Terrebonne Parish, two elementary schools destroyed by Hurricane Ida still sit, unusable, in communities waiting for school bells to ring again. “It’s going to take time," Superintendent Bubba Orgeron said. "We wish it would be tomorrow, but we realize that it’s...

Two elementary schools destroyed by Hurricane Ida waiting on FEMA approval to rebuild

NEW ORLEANS — Crewmembers of the New Orleans-based Carnival Valor cruise ship rescued three Hondurans from a stranded boat adrift in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, according to a press release. This is not the first time the Carnival Valor has been involved in a rescue, as the...

Carnival Valor crew rescues three Hondurans stranded at sea

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Cold Case: The 19-year-old who was killed six months before graduating high school

ST. JAMES PARISH, La. — Chrystal Davis remembers the day when her son Ja’Naries Gaudia, 19, got his class ring. He was ready to leave high...

Cold Case: The 19-year-old who was killed six months before graduating high school

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