Gunfire in Marrero leaves one woman dead
New Orleans -- Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department Homicide Detectives are investigating a shooting that left woman dead. The incident occurred Saturday around 9:24 p.m. in the 1000 block of...
View ArticleSt. John Parish residents brace for rain event
St. John the Baptist Parish, La -- In St. John the Baptist Parish, additional people have been brought in to the emergency preparedness office ahead of this weekend's rain event. Parish President...
View Article5 decades later, some JFK probe files still sealed
Five decades after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot and long after official inquiries ended, thousands of pages of investigative documents remain withheld from public view. The contents of...
View ArticleHeavy rainfall expected for New Orleans area Sunday, with thunderstorm...
Heavy rainfall is expected to cover the New Orleans area on Sunday, mainly along and south of the Interstate 10 corridor, extending into the Mississippi coastal counties, with rainfall rates of 1 to 3...
View ArticlePolice investigate body found in New Orleans East
New Orleans -- The New Orleans Police Department is investigating the discovery of unidentified male body, in New Orleans East. The discovery was made Saturday around 7:00 p.m. just off of Interstate...
View ArticleSunday weather forecast: Chance of rain, hot
Today: Partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain. High of 93. Winds from the northwest at 5 to 10 mph, shifting to the west-southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30%....
View ArticleSunday weather forecast: Chance of rain, hot
Today: Partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain. High of 93. Winds from the northwest at 5 to 10 mph, shifting to the west-southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30%....
View ArticleEight years after Katrina, a stronger system of storm protection: Editorial
Hurricane Isaac provided a real-life test for the New Orleans region's new $14 billion storm protection system last September, and the floodwalls and gates built in the past eight years proved their...
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Republican lawmakers split on cutting off aid to Egypt
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican lawmakers are split over whether the U.S. should cut off aid to Egypt amid spiraling violence. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., members of...
View ArticleFor Landrieu and others in U.S. Senate races, family matters
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Sen. Mark Pryor likes to tell voters that he always puts Arkansas first, borrowing the campaign slogan associated with his family for decades. In Wyoming, Liz Cheney bets that her...
View ArticleSheriff's office financial audit highlights purchasing scandal
Mike Perlstein / Eyewitness News Email: mperlstein@wwltv.com | Twitter: @mperlstein NEW ORLEANS - Following the criminal case that exposed corrupt purchasing procedures at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s...
View ArticleGulfport residents mop up after Sunday deluge
Gulfport, Miss. - Residents of this coastal town are cleaning up after a Sunday deluge that few people expected. A tropical system just sat over Gulfport for about five or six hours, dumping up to...
View ArticleCity, sheriff request more time to select jail consent decree monitor
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The city of New Orleans and Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman are asking a federal judge for more time to discuss selection of a monitor for planned reforms at the New Orleans...
View ArticleNew report on New Orleans noise ordinance calls for sweeping changes, gets...
A new report commissioned by the New Orleans City Council on how best to revise the city's noise ordinance was challenged as too lenient by several residents who spoke Monday at a meeting of the...
View ArticleFormer EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson joining Tulane board
Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson has joined the main governing body of Tulane University. The university made the announcement in a news release Monday. Jackson, a New...
View ArticleGretna centennial celebrates city's past, present
All it took was 6,284 people. Dissatisfied with Jefferson Parish government but recognizing political strength in numbers, Gretna petitioned the state in 1913 to stand on its own. That May, it was...
View ArticleOrleans Parish School Board committee questions minority participation in...
An Orleans Parish School Board community committee halved the list of prospective superintendent search firms Monday, amid concerns about the political hot potato of minority contracts. As a result,...
View ArticleJPSO believes slain Algiers teen was in wrong place at wrong time
Harvey, La. — Under the Westbank Expressway is not normally where families gather. But a gathering Monday afternoon was rooted in grief. "It's real hard, it's real hard," said Anicia Nash. Her...
View ArticleWork delayed on Larose floodwall
Larose, La. - Everything seemed to be moving forward just fine. The South Lafourche Levee District bought the right of ways around a flood wall in Larose and was preparing to move some power lines....
View ArticleHens and chicks find new homes at LASPCA adoption event
Roughly 40 percent of the hens and female chicks removed from an eastern New Orleans cockfighting breeding grounds were adopted on Monday afternoon, many more than the animal rescue organization had...
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