Homeless camp returns under Pontchartrain Expressway
Bill Capo / Eyewitness News Email: bcapo@wwltv.com | Twitter: @billcapo NEW ORLEANS -- Streetcars and tour buses pass the bedrolls on St. Charles Avenue, giving visitors a view of the homeless camp...
View ArticleGrowing concerns over heroin use in metro area
Meg Farris / Eyewitness News Email: mfarris@wwltv.com | Twitter: @megfarriswwl NEW ORLEANS -- It's being called an epidemic in the U.S. and here in the New Orleans area.
View ArticleCovington man says seat belt saved him during winter weather crash
Ashley Rodrigue / Eyewitness News Email: arodrigue@wwltv.com | Twitter: @ashleyrwwl COVINGTON, La. - As sleet rained down from the skies Thursday, the cold and wintry conditions were a flashback to...
View ArticleRegistered sex offender faced with child pornography charges
Houma Courier THIBODAUX, La. -- A registered sex offender Blaine Granier, 24, 4237 Highway 307 in Thibodaux faces child pornography charges following an investigation between the Lafourche Parish...
View ArticleJudge dismisses charges in Katrina cover-up death
CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge has thrown out charges against a former New Orleans policeman who faced a retrial next month on charges he helped cover up a deadly...
View ArticleOn stand, Nagin denies he took payoffs
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin has taken the stand in his federal corruption trial. Nagin started his testimony Thursday by discussing his relationship with Rodney Williams. Williams was the lead...
View ArticleGentilly garden project design reduces neighborhood flood risk
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - People in Gentilly celebrate the completion of a project designed to overhaul a stretch of Wildair Drive. The project turns land near the intersection of Wildair Drive and...
View ArticleRay Nagin seeks to charm like a politician on the stand in his corruption...
Four years after leaving as mayor, Ray Nagin made a public appearance in New Orleans on Thursday, this time on the stand in his own corruption trial. He sought to relate a much more innocuous view of...
View ArticleSlidell zoning board agrees to parking lot variance for proposed Walmart...
Slidell's Board of Zoning and Adjustment signed off Thursday night (Feb. 6) on a request to allow developers of a proposed Walmart grocery store on Robert Boulevard to have fewer parking spaces than...
View ArticleKenner City Council approves Louis Gruntz as interim city attorney despite...
Kenner City Council on Thursday offered no opposition to thehiring of Louis Gruntz as interim city attorney. Councilman Joe Stagni,however, objected to Gruntz's annual salary of $111,000, which is 28...
View ArticleMan taking pictures in Bywater robbed by someone he photographed
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - A man who was taking pictures on the levee in the Bywater was robbed Tuesday by a person he had photographed just minutes before. Police said the robbery happened on the levee...
View ArticlePolitics for women 'ain't beanbag,' but does it have to be slut shaming?:...
I'vebeen scratching my head recently over why more young women don't seek publicoffice. I know what the experts say: women generallybelieve the political environment is biased against them, are...
View ArticleRay Nagin trial: Live coverage, day 8; Nagin testimony continues
A year after former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted on public corruption charges, his federal trial is now in full swing. Day eight's action starts up at 9 a.m.
View ArticleWith flood insurance increases looming, homeowners need House to help them:...
After President Obama made it clear Wednesday he won't veto Senate legislation delaying flood insurance rate hikes, the question is whether the House will decide to help homeowners facing unaffordable...
View ArticleLCTCS to build new campuses
Although funding for construction of $250 million in structures won't be available for almost 18 months, The Louisiana Community and Technical College System is taking preliminary steps to be ready...
View ArticleCoroner salary, Walmart grocery, U.S. 190 road widening project: St. Tammany...
St. Tammany Parish coroner candidates now know how much money they'll be making should they win the election to fill the unexpired term of former Coroner Peter Galvan, forced from office by a...
View ArticleLouisiana residents less financially secure than they should be, report says
Louisiana residents should be more financially secure than they currently are. The state ranks 44th when it comes to personal financial safety, meaning people in Louisiana are less likely to be able...
View ArticleWho should Louisiana name a day for?
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford declared Feb. 6 Bob Marley Day according to USA Today, in honor of the late singer's birthday. "The Jamaican singer, who was born in 1945, died in 1981 at age 36," reports Jolie...
View ArticleNew Orleans book events feature memoirs that mix personal and political
Three memoirs dominate theNew Orleans book calendar in February, each powered by a potent mix of personaland political matters. Co-authors MaryMatalin and James Carville tell how their political...
View ArticleThe BP oil spill and a federal judge's family tree: James Varney
The deeper one ventures into the legal thicket surrounding the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the more gnarled the underbrush becomes. In at least one instance, a prominent Louisiana legal family is...
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