U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D.-Ill., and a present day witch hunt: James Varney
It's not every day the Pelican Institute for Public Policy gets a letter from U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. There are probably fewer days where Durbin letters are welcome at the Pelican Institute....
View ArticleLouisiana coastal erosion lawsuit: state levee association committee comes...
Already besieged by the governor's opposition, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East and its sweeping lawsuit against about 100 oil, gas and pipeline companies drew another...
View ArticleLawmakers delay approval of Sasol, Lockheed deals, citing tax incentive worries
Lawmakers in Louisiana decided Friday to delay approval for a multibillion-dollar deal with Sasol until more concrete tax incentive numbers can be provided. Gov. Bobby Jindal's economic development...
View ArticleNOPD looking for man wanted in attempted rape, assault in eastern New Orleans
New Orleans police are looking for a 48-year-old man wanted for an attempted rape, aggravated assault, simple robbery and strangulation that took place Monday morning in eastern New Orleans. According...
View ArticleHouma police seek to identify suspects in fatal shooting
Houma, La. - Houma police are looking for three men in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred Thursday. At about 11:45 p.m., officers responded to a call in the 500 block of Louise Street....
View ArticleSt. Tammany Democrats group backs coastal erosion lawsuit
The Progressive Northshore Democrats organization based in St. Tammany Parish has endorsed the controversial lawsuit filed by a south Louisiana levee authority demanding that nearly 100 oil, gas and...
View ArticleScalise: Obama official 'living in cocoon.' Waxman: Obamacare is GOP's 'great...
On the Hill: The week in Washington Steve Scalise's health law confrontation Just before Congress began its summer recess, there was another confrontation between Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, and...
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Saints fans begin tailgating early
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View ArticleJP coroner releases autopsy report for Kidd Kraddick
Related:Kidd Kraddick's sudden death cardiac relatedadd to reading listPopular radio host Kidd Kraddick dies after hosting charity golf tournament in Gretnaadd to reading list Gallery See all 3 photos...
View ArticleCivil Service Commission sides with veteran NOPD captains in pay dispute
Dominic Massa / Eyewitness News NEW ORLEANS - The Civil Service Commission on Friday sided with 11 reassigned high-ranking current and former New Orleans Police officers, saying they are entitled to a...
View ArticlePresident Obama: 'unifying principle in the Republican Party' is denying 30...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama struck back forcefully Friday against Republican critics of his health-care law, saying "the unifying principle in the Republican Party at the moment is making...
View ArticleHeated meeting brings Mandeville City Council closer to budget approval
Moving closer to the end of a long and grueling budget drafting process, the Mandeville City Council Thursday night cut more than $300,000 from the city administration's spending plan for the coming...
View ArticleCovington man booked in Mandeville paintball gun burglary
A 23-year-old Covington man was booked Friday in the St. Tammany Parish Jail with business burglary and possession of stolen property after Mandeville Police say he admitted smashing into the store...
View ArticleMandeville Police arrest reports, July 31-Aug. 8
Mandeville Police Chief Rick Richard announced the following arrests: July 31, 2013 Dalton Taylor Wood, 20, 409 Woodridge Boulevard, Mandeville, theft and contributing to the delinquency of a...
View ArticleIt's only preseason, so tune in to WRNO, 99.5, at 7 p.m. for John Osterlind...
Chances are Drew Brees won't play more than two series tonight, and if the first one is some 80-year, 8-play drive that may be it. Come back to the Saints later, when guys you haven't heard of yet...
View ArticleCovington man ordered to pay $2 million in restitution to child porn victims,...
A Covington man who previously pleaded guilty in Texas federal court to conspiring to produce child pornography has been ordered by a judge to pay more than $2 million in restitution to his victims,...
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Old bridge in Covington links past to current traffic problems
Built at a time when traffic in St. Tammany Parish was a fraction of what it is today, the U.S. 190 bridge at Claiborne Hill over the Bogue Falaya River is as busy as it is old. From its position just...
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Kenner weighs how airport buy-out property development would affect hold-out...
View full size The airport buyout property consists of more than 390 lots, the small sites of former homes and stores. The study recommends 31 bundles. As often as not, these shapes coagulate around a...
View ArticleForensic scientist tells of 'fatal funnel of fire' in Bridge City murder trial
As many as four gunmen opened fire on Theodore Pierce outside a Bridge City home in January 2011, trapping him in a "fatal funnel of fire," a forensic scientist testified Friday on the third day of...
View ArticleGeismar man wins $1 million in Powerball
BATON ROUGE, La. -- A Geismar man has come forward as the local $1 million winner of the Powerball. Jerry Cockerham missed taking a share of the $448 million jackpot by one number, according to...
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