At two separate meetings Monday night, community members sounded off on violent crime and allegations of racial profiling within the New Orleans Police Department.
Against all odds, the Hornets did the unthinkable. Without Eric Gordon and without Greivis Vasquez, New Orleans ended Denver’s 15-game win streak 110-86 thanks to a trio of rookies and outside marksmanship
Data released by the New Orleans Police Department touts a drop in violent crime when comparing the first quarter of 2013 to 2012. Violent crime fell 8 percent, NOPD officials said.
Delgado Community College will be laying off 115 employees including 64 members of the faculty and cutting 15 programs after a vote this morning by the Tech College Board.
After two men took a laptop from a man sitting on the front porch of his Pine Street home early Wednesday morning, the victim was able to subdue one of his attackers until police arrived, authorities said.
The Advocate made another major play to take control of the newspaper market in the city, poaching veteran and Pulitizer Prize-winning reporters and editors from the Times-Picayune in the latest saga of a newspaper war.
For the last two years, a state licensing board has been cracking down on contractors who tried to take advantage of lucrative Katrina rebuilding grants with shell companies and shoddy work.
A man shot by police last March in an early morning gun battle that left his brother dead and two officers seriously wounded filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against the city and the NOPD.
Officials put a hold on all work at the site of a growing sinkhole in Assumption Parish profiled in an Eyewitness Investigation because of seismic activity.
Following work that has already begun on South Claiborne and Napoleon avenues, contractors will embark on a project in the next few months to install a new box canal under the neutral ground on Jefferson Avenue.
Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a person of interest in relation to a police-involved shooting, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Officials say LSU and a state agency paid former coastal researcher Ivor van Heerden $435,000 to settle court claims that his LSU career.
A local contractor who has been cooperating with authorities has been charged in the still-unfolding bid-rigging and bribery scheme at Orleans Parish Prison.
- Deputies recovered the body of a missing man who was reported missing after not returning from a midday fishing trip on Lake Pontchartrain, according to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office.
A major wind event that has not been confirmed as a tornado yet damaged several homes in the northwest quadrant of Kenner and left 5,000 without power Wednesday around noon.
The Jefferson Parish law enforcement community is taking steps to try and better educate themselves about something called spice or mojo, which on the streets is known as legal weed.
If you like food, music and football, Super Bowl Boulevard might be the place for you to hang out this weekend. The NFL experience officially kicked off in Woldenberg Park on Thursday night with a bang.
A little-known federal immigration program has fallen flat in New Orleans, and the investors allege that the men former Mayor Ray Nagin hired to handle it are committing fraud.
Even as visitors party in the streets, a recent CBS News poll shows more than half of Americans believe New Orleans has a ways to go in its recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mayor Ed Koch, the combative, acid-tongued politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during a three-term City Hall run in which he embodied New York chutzpah for the rest of the world, died Friday. He was 88.
Calling their results encouraging, leaders of the New Orleans Crime Coalition reported an increase in overall citizen satisfaction with New Orleans Police, in the latest version of the perception survey conducted every six months by the group.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is conceding "we're probably not going to be able to get a deal" on budget, tax and spending issues with Congress if Republicans continue to insist that no new revenues can be raised unless entitlement programs are significantly overhauled.
A man was discovered lying on the ground after being fatally shot in New Orleans East on Tuesday night, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
Following the all-time record trial delays that volunteers observed in 2011, the rate of delays remained at a record high in Criminal District Court for 2012, according to the Court Watch NOLA 2012 report.
With no second round pick in this week’s NFL Draft, it’s possible that one of the safest moves for the New Orleans Saints would be to move down and grab a few more selections.
A court watchdog group says that case delays in Orleans Criminal District Court continued at record high rates even though the number of cases fell dramatically from 2011 to 2012.
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Breaking Orleans & JP eAlerts
34s - Chef at Louisa - Shooting Shooting reported at Chef and Louisa. No additional info. This is not an eAlert Posted 20.5.2013 14:35 by BryanLagarde , currently online
34S X 2 - 1600 Frenchman St. - Shooting Shortly after receiving a report of gunfire from a patrol unit in the 1600 block of Frenchman, dispatch al... Posted 6.5.2013 21:16 by Pronola , currently offline
34c - Area of 2200 West Bend - Stabbing Stabbing reported in the area of 2200 West Bend, in Algiers. Responding unit located the victim, advised ... Posted 6.5.2013 17:14 by BryanLagarde , currently online
34s - 2400 Aubury - Shooting Shooting reported on 2400 Aubry. Responding units found male with GSW to the arm. No further info at thi... Posted 2.5.2013 13:47 by BryanLagarde , currently online