French Quarter sales tax hike would help fund State Police, mayor says
French Quarter visitors may be paying more in the city's historic neighborhood if a quarter-cent sale tax increase passes the New Orleans City Council and winds up in the hands of voters. The plan...
View ArticleElton Lagasse 3-25-15
Jefferson Parish Councilman Elton Lagasse formally announces his candidacy for parish president
View ArticleYouth legislature students promote their bills
Students at the Youth Legislature program in Baton Rouge spend two days learning about the legislative process, including promoting bills they've written.
View ArticleYouth Legislature press conference tackles Common Core
A Youth Legislature program in Baton Rouge included a press conference with the 8th grade governor's cabinet. Here, a reporter asks the Secretary of Education about Common Core.
View ArticleSt. Tammany School Board election March 28
Two candidates, Dennis Cousin and John Murchison, seek the 14th District post on the St. Tammany Parish School Board. The election is Saturday, March 28, 2015.
View ArticleRabbi Edward Paul Cohn
Rabbi Edward Paul Cohn of Temple Sinai in New Orleans and temple members are planning Temple Sinai's 145th anniversary celebration April 11.
View ArticleDestrehan parent discusses Common Core boycotts, parent reaction
Brandy Hollingsworth, a Destrehan mom, discusses how St. Charles school system officials' initial response to parents may have dissuaded them from boycotting Common Core.
View ArticleGulf tsunami - Texas A&M video
A tsunami research group at Texas A&M University at Galveston has developed modeling depicted how a tsunami could affect local coastal areas.
View ArticleFrench Quarter Security Task Force mobile application unveiled
After months of planning, French Quarter businessman and resident, Sidney Torres IV unveiled his new crime-fighting mobile application called the French Quarter Security Task Force. He made the...
View ArticleCRIMESTOPPERS offers faster reward payouts among other changes to the program
During 2014, the Crimestoppers organization received more than 9,000 tips through their hotline that led to 216 arrests. In an effort to get more residents to come forward with information about crimes...
View ArticleDomino's Pizza indefinitely suspends delivery to area where deliveryman was...
Domino's Pizza, Regional V.P., Robert Tedesco announced that the company has posted multiple billboards across the city and is offering a $10,500 reward for information in the murder of 36 year-old,...
View ArticleMichael Carter 3-26-15
Michael Carter, of architecture and engineering firm Perrin and Carter Inc., discusses a proposal by Lakeside Toyota to rezone vacant lots along Ridgelake Drive.
View ArticleHarold Singer 3-26-15
Harold Singer, president of the Whitney-Cecil homeowners' association, urges the Jefferson Parish Planning Advisory Board to vote against a rezoning proposal from Lakeside Toyota.
View ArticleSlain Domino's Pizza delivery driver's family pleads for killers to come forward
At a press conference Friday (March 27) held by the family of Michael Price, a 36-year-old Domino's Pizza delivery driver murdered Tuesday, his sister pleaded for his killers or anyone who knows their...
View ArticleHeather Sylve, JPSO Lt. who shot machete wielding Richard white
Jefferson Parish duty Lt. Heather Sylve, who shot Richard white, 63, of Kenner, who was wielding a machete after he stormed a security checkpoint at Louis Armstrong International Airport March 20, 2015.
View ArticleCity Park tree clearing 3-28-15
A machine clears trees in City Park, where a golf course is planned. A protestor occupied a tree near where the machine was operating.
View ArticleGentilly double shooting occurred after a neighborhood party ended, residents...
The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a double shooting in the Gentilly area that took place Sunday (March 29) night at around 10:30 p.m. at the intersection of Paris Avenue and Lafreniere...
View ArticleFrench Quarter transients
In New Orleans' French Quarter, they are called many names: "Gutter punks," "dirty kids," "freight hoppers." To some, they're a frightful and aggressive nuisance - one targeted by a recent police sweep...
View ArticleNews of manhunt for prison escapee alarms Mid-City residents
New Orleans authorities and multiple other agencies are searching the Mid-City area for an escaped prisoner who was being transferred from East Feliciana Parish to a courthouse in New Orleans....
View ArticleJapanese capture Robert Hite
Video from the National World War II Museum shows the capture of Robert L. Hite by Japanese forces in 1942. Hite, the last survivor of the eight captives, spent 40 months in confinement, 38 months of...
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