6th Congressional District candidates talk priorities
Edwin Edwards, Garret Graves, state Sen. Dan Claitor and other 6th Congressional District candidates answered the question: What's the single biggest priority for the district right now?
View ArticleWestwego City Council ok's bids for new City Hall
The Westwego City Council voted Monday night (Aug. 25, 2014) to seek a second round of bids for a new City Hall. Following about 45 minutes of discussion, councilmen Norman Fonseca, Glenn Green, Johnny...
View ArticleKawanda Hampton killed her boyfriend to save her own life. What now?
While being beaten and choked, Kawanda Hampton stabbed her boyfriend, Jemond Carson, in her eastern New Orleans home on Feb. 13. Police called the killing a justifiable homicide, but Hampton's problems...
View ArticleAug. 26 forecast from FOX 8 meteorologist Chris Franklin
Here's the forecast for Tuesday, Aug. 26, from Chris Franklin, a meteorologist with our news partners at FOX 8. (video via FOX 8)
View ArticleAfter eastern New Orleans double murder, residents outraged over lighting,...
The New Orleans Police Department is still investigating the murder of two females in the 14700 block of Chef Mentuer Highway that occurred just after midnight on Saturday. Residents who live in the...
View ArticleVideo: Pro-Common Core plaintiff explains his decision to sue Gov. Bobby Jindal
Mickey Landry, CEO of the New Orleans charter group Choice Foundation, said the governor overstepped his constitutional boundaries. (Aug. 26, 2014)
View ArticleSneak peak: Louisiana's newest tourism TV ads play up state's rich food culture
Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 gave a sneak peek at the state Office of Tourism's latest tourism ad campaign at the 2014 Lt. Governor's Tourism Summit held at the Pontchartrain...
View ArticleBourbon Street Shooting suspect called a 'hero' by defense attorney witnesses
Bourbon Street Shooting suspect, Trung Le pleaded not guilty in his arraignment today. Criminal Defense Attorney, Martin Regan brought several of Le's friends in to testify at his bond hearing where...
View ArticleSeemann Ordinance
Margie Baird and family address the Jefferson Parish Council on an ordinance named after Baird's late sister and good-government activist, Margie Seemann
View ArticleSt. Charles Hospital Board Chairman John Landry III on Ochsner management...
St. Charles Parish Hospital Board Chairman John Landry III talks about the management agreement with Ochsner Health System.
View ArticleHabana Outpost Nola gets conceptual approval from Vieux Carre Commission
Habana Outpost developers got approval from the Vieux Carre Commission on the conceptual designs submitted in today's meeting. Residents in the meeting still had concerns about the scale of the...
View ArticleJulius Ouder
World War II veteran Julius Ouder thanks Slidell officials for designating Sept. 5, 2014, as "Julius Ouder Day'' in Slidell.
View ArticleBrandon Iglesias of ReactWell
Brandon Iglesias discusses his ReactWell system for chemically manufacturing crude oil using algae and other ingredients in underground reactors powered in part by gravitational pressure and geothermal...
View ArticleMarines retire UH-1 Novembers, welcome UH-1 Yankees
A Marine Corps UH-1Y Venom, also called a "Yankee," lands at the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse on Thursday (Aug. 28, 2014). During a "sundown ceremony," the Marines retired the...
View ArticlePastor's family and witnesses react to the shooting of copper thieves in Algiers
The Rev. W.L.T. Littleton of the Greater Bright Morning Star Baptist Church in Algiers shot at two men who were stealing copper from an air-conditioning unit at one of his properties adjacent to the...
View ArticleLevee authorities nominating committee chairman Jay Lapeyre explains...
Jay Lapeyre, chairman of a committee that selects nominees for the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East and -West and submits them to Gov. Bobby Jindal, explains Thursday's meeting,...
View ArticleSt. John Parish President Natalie Robottom On Amoeba In Water System
St. John the Baptist Parish President Natalie Robottom talks about the presence of a potentially fatal brain-eating amoeba that was detected in part of the St. John Parish water system.
View ArticleAnatola Thompson
Jefferson Parish's former head of community development, Anatola Thompson, reads a letter on behalf of her husband, Eric Thompson, defending Eric Thompson's company against accusations that it violated...
View ArticleNine years after Hurricane Katrina, Pastor Darryl Brister explains how he...
Darryl Brister of the Beacon Light International Cathedral in Gentilly, explains how the church he planted survived Hurricane Katrina. Brister illustrates his story by relying on a mural at the...
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