Political action committees and lobbyists that owe more than $93,000 in...
State officials in November said they would target politicians and groups that owed ethics fines, including going after the bank accounts and state licenses of politicians
View ArticleKrewe leaders hope weather spares Uptown parades Wednesday
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - The floats are loaded and the Krewe of Nyx is ready to roll along the Uptown route Wednesday night. Despite some expected rough weather, Nyx leaders say they're all systems...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite and his mother remember humble beginnings
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - Kenneth Polite took the oath as U.S. Attorney in the middle of a firestorm. An online commenting scandal involving former prosecutors had tainted the office, and Polite would...
View ArticleLee Zurik Investigation: Some PAC limit violators cough up excess funds
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - Six politicians have returned a total of almost $300,000 in campaign contributions as a result of our series of investigations. They paid the money back after we detailed how...
View Article5 more legislators release Tulane scholarship forms
Five more state lawmakers have defied leaders of the state Legislature and released Tulane University scholarship forms that House and Senate officials continue to claim are not public records. The...
View ArticleCommunity shocked by deadly LaPlace Business Shooting
Tania Dall / Eyewitness News Email: tdall@wwltv.com | Twitter: @taniadall LAPLACE, La. -- The deadly double shooting in LaPlace led to a lockdown of nearby schools and sparked a massive search for...
View ArticleFive more lawmakers release Tulane University scholarship forms
Mike Perlstein / Eyewitness News Email: mperlstein@wwltv.com | Twitter: @mikeperlstein Gordon Russell / The Advocate Email: grussell@theadvocate.com | Twitter: @GordonRussell1 NEW ORLEANS -- Five more...
View ArticleNorth Shore Workforce inmate escapes
Katie Moore / Eyewitness News Email: kmoore@wwltv.com | Twitter: @katiecmoore COVINGTON, La. -- The St. Tammany Sheriff's Office confirms they are searching for a work release inmate who escaped...
View ArticleAaron Broussard wants judge to throw out his sentence
New Orleans, LA - (WVUE) Former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard wants a federal judge to make null and void his 46 month sentence. The motion to vacate cites "ineffective assistance by...
View ArticleBroussard seeks to get guilty plea thrown out
Attorneys for former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, who is serving a 46-month prison sentence for conspiracy, wire fraud and theft, have asked a federal judge to throw out his guilty...
View ArticleFinal week begins with Druids, Nyx
Druids and Nyx, the two parades that kick off Carnival’s final week on Wednesday night, couldn’t be more different, yet both are examples of how Mardi Gras accommodates new ideas. The Druids debuted...
View ArticleMunicipal Auditorium, shuttered since Katrina, was long home to Carnival balls
Now officially known as the Morris F.X. Jeff Sr. Auditorium, the New Orleans Municipal Auditorium was constructed in 1929 at a cost of $1.76 million. Though the auditorium’s official purpose was to...
View ArticleHouse puts off vote on flood insurance legislation
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - People worried about soaring flood insurance rates will need to wait longer than expected to see the House take action on the issue. According to our partners at Nola.com|The...
View ArticleJudge won’t block seafood loss claims
A federal judge refused British oil giant BP’s request Wednesday to block a second round of claims payments for losses incurred by the seafood industry in the wake of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil...
View ArticleJefferson Parish Housing Authority hires Texas-based consultant as next...
The Jefferson Parish Housing Authority on Wednesday selectedJuan Patterson as its next executive director. Patterson is currently a Plano, Texas-based consultant whoassists public housing authorities
View ArticleMayors brainstorm to stop black-on-black violence
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - The kinds of murders New Orleans continues to do battle against are also plaguing many other major cities, and now many of the mayors in those communities have joined forces...
View ArticleMayors share ideas on violent crime
Not much about the local violent crime problem seems to relate to the state capital of Wisconsin. Madison, a city with nearly two-thirds the population of New Orleans, saw a total of three murders in...
View ArticleCommunity mourns loss, injury of feed store owners
A community in mourning gathered Wednesday night outside the LaPlace Feed & Supply Co. to pray for Steve Finckbeiner, killed a day earlier, and his wife, Connie, who was wounded when two men burst...
View ArticleContractor’s sentencing delayed until March 12
U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval requested, but never received, a satisfactory explanation for why contractor Aaron Bennett didn’t get transported from his jail cell in Tangipahoa Parish to federal...
View ArticleJudges enlist nonprofit’s aid in building courthouse
The judges at Orleans Parish Civil District Court remain determined to replace their aging courthouse, even though they are getting no help from state or city officials, don’t yet have a location and...
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