Vegas casino fined in prostitution and drug sting
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Mandalay Bay Resort plans to pay a half-million-dollar fine after employees at an upscale Las Vegas Strip lounge provided prostitutes and drugs to undercover officers. The Nevada...
View ArticleWoman gives birth in Magazine St. donut shop
NEW ORLEANS, LA - A woman who walked into a donut shop on Magazine Street left with much more than just coffee and a pastry. Emergency dispatchers in New Orleans received a call shortly after 10...
View ArticleReporters fighting hearing subpoena
Lori Mince, a lawyer for John Simerman and Gordon Russell, wrote in a motion to quash filed Wednesday that the subpoenas amount to a “fishing expedition.” Reporters with The New Orleans Advocate have...
View ArticleRaising Cane’s planning Gentilly restaurant
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers has filed plans with the city to build a location in Gentilly at 4800 Chef Menteur Highway. The restaurant will be among the Baton Rouge chain’s first on the Eastbank of...
View ArticleCity must dole out back pay to officers in incentive plan
Under a recent settlement to a federal lawsuit, the city has agreed that in figuring overtime pay rates, it will give New Orleans police officers credit for incentive bonuses paid to those who hold...
View ArticleJudge denies bail for Sharper
A Los Angeles judge ordered Darren Sharper held without bail Thursday after an Arizona grand jury this week charged him with sexually assaulting and drugging two women in that state last year. The...
View ArticleNew Orleans Council At-Large candidates on the attack
Paul Murphy / Eyewitness News Email: pmurphy@wwltv.com | Twitter: @pmurphywwl NEW ORLEANS -- The political mean season is in full bloom with candidates in the hotly contested race for New Orleans...
View ArticleTimeline shows how energy industry violated laws, levee authority attorneys say
As the state Legislature considers bills to halt a wetlands damages lawsuit filed by the east bank levee authority against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies,
View ArticleIn move toward cooperation, New Orleans' two school systems consider...
New Orleans' two school systems could be on the verge of an unprecedented collaboration to benefit the city's neediest children. The Orleans Parish School Board's legal
View ArticleNOPD investigating triple shooting in Milan
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - Police are at the scene of a triple shooting in the Milan neighborhood. The shooting happened just after 3 p.m. in the 3500 block of S. Saratoga Street. Police say two women...
View ArticleLil Wayne's next album will be his last solo work
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne says he's mapping out retirement. In an interview with MTV, Lil Wayne says his next album will be his last as a solo artist. The album could be...
View ArticleBP ex-employee seeks new trial
Attorneys for a former BP engineer asked a New Orleans federal judge to grant him a new trial Thursday or acquit him on obstruction-of-justice charges for deleting a string of text messages in an...
View ArticleWebsite to support coastal suit
Proponents of a lawsuit targeting oil and gas companies for allegedly causing coastal erosion opened a new front in the political battle over that suit’s future Thursday, unveiling a website aimed at...
View ArticleRegion’s growing pains ‘a good thing’
Instead of recounting the publications that bestowed a superlative economic development designation on the New Orleans region in 2013 as testament to the area’s rapid growth and success, Michael Hecht...
View ArticleGusman, Foti discuss final days of sheriff's campaign
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman barely missed winning re-election last month. On Saturday voters will decide whether Gusman will get another term, or if he will be ousted...
View ArticleSheriff Strain closes inmate workforce program after man escapes
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain on Thursday contacted the managers of Northshore Workforce - the Covington-based transitional work program - to notify them that he was...
View Article‘Pat’ Patterson, ex-newspaper photographer, dies at 94
Horace “Pat” Patterson, a gregarious photographer who made pictures of hurricanes, celebrities and thousands of ordinary people in a long career with The Times-Picayune, died Saturday in suburban...
View ArticleCity’s school systems reach deal on services, buildings
The two competing school districts that operate side by side in New Orleans reached a landmark deal Thursday aimed at shoring up services for the city’s neediest children and sorting out how to manage...
View ArticleSchool Board weighs superintendent candidates
There’s a local lawyer who sits on the board of a group of charter schools. There’s the head of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, training ground of Trombone Shorty and Harry Connick Jr....
View ArticleMandeville government tackles sales tax rededication issue
Mandeville voters will likely be asked to rededicate only half of a 1-cent sales tax now being collected specifically for streets, drainage, water and sewer services.
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