Police searching for suspects in 2 Algiers carjackings
Police are investigating two separate carjackings in Algiers this week. The first of the two incidents took place Monday (Nov. 25) night, according to daily police log. About 11:27 p.m., two men, ages...
View ArticleBayou Classic parking, traffic restrictions
NEW ORLEANS -- The City of New Orleans has issued the following parking and traffic restrictions around Bayou Classic events. Bayou Classic Parade: On Thursday, November 28, 2013 from 3:30 p.m. to...
View ArticleHealth law business insurance site delayed 1 year
CHICAGO (AP) - The Obama administration is delaying yet another aspect of the health care law, putting off until next November the launch of an online health insurance marketplace for small...
View ArticleLouisiana supports Mississippi in flood insurance lawsuit
Louisiana has filed a legal brief supporting Mississippi's lawsuit against the federal government over the large increases in national flood insurance premiums that threaten to make many peoples'...
View ArticleNew head of Louisiana seafood board looking to diversify, deepen funding stream
Karen Profita is no stranger to dramatically improving the fundraising potential of an organization. During her time at the Capital Area United Way, she grew the nonprofit's funding stream by $500,000...
View ArticleSmall businesses will have to wait one-year to sign up online for Affordable...
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced Wednesday a one-year delay in a provision of the Affordable Care Act intended to allow small businesses to sign up employees for health insurance under...
View ArticleNew Orleans tourism promoters are stepping up efforts to pitch the city as a...
The music, décor and retail sales aren't the only trappings of the holiday season taking place ever earlier. Last year and this year, New Orleans tourism promoters have intensified their efforts to...
View Article"Queen of the Snowball" Josie Ortolano dies at 103
Dominic Massa / Eyewitness News Josie Marino Ortolano, the woman affectionately known by family and friends as the Queen of the Snowball, who with her husband created the SnoWizard company that...
View ArticleNew Orleans freeze plan in effect for the homeless, officials say
A freeze plan for the homeless has been activated by New Orleans in preparation for a drop in temperatures throughout the metro area tonight and Thursday (Nov. 28). The weather forecast indicates...
View ArticleSmall businesses will have to wait one year to sign up online for Affordable...
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced Wednesday a one-year delay in a provision of the Affordable Care Act intended to allow small businesses to sign up employees for health insurance under...
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Casey Jones Supermarket ushers in the holiday season
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View ArticleUNO students' blimp project lets their ingenuity takes flight
Call it the little blimp that could. The as-yet-unnamed aircraft is only 12 feet long and 4 feet wide -- nowhere near the scale of the Goodyear blimp nor the Hindenburg -- but here's the important...
View ArticleThe latest Katrina study is all about the rats
For the latest study measuring the devastation that Hurricane Katrina and its flooding inflicted upon New Orleans, as well as the recovery from that catastrophe, the focus is on . . . rats. Yes, rats....
View ArticleBBC News spotlights technology entrepreneurs in New Orleans
The British Broadcasting Corporation's news division visited New Orleans recently to laud the city's newfound, post-Hurricane Katrina appetite for entrepreneurship. "The population - like the city's...
View ArticleHoliday season bittersweet for Gretna institution Casey Jones Supermarket
Inside Casey Jones Supermarket in Gretna on Wednesday, the mad dash was on for shoppers in need of sweet potatoes, onions or chicken broth for their Thanksgiving feasts. Though many folks seemed in a...
View ArticleWe're thankful for all of you and for this wonderful place: Editorial
Our list of reasons to be thankful is long this year: Eight years after Katrina and the levee breaches, New Orleans is on a roll. National Geographic Traveler just put the city on its list of must-see...
View ArticleNorthshore, Miss. residents not taking changes with hard freeze
Ashley Rodrigue / Eyewitness News Email: arodrigue@wwltv.com | Twitter: @ashleyrwwl MANDEVILLE, La. - Bags and blankets are the new yard decorations at the LeBourgeois' home in Old Mandeville, at...
View ArticleSmall fire breaks out at elderly living center
WWLTV.com Email: webteam@wwltv.com | Twitter: @WWLTV NEW ORLEANS -- A small heating unit may be to blame for a fire that broke out Wednesday afternoon at an assisted living complex in Marrero....
View ArticleShelters filling up ahead of cold Thanksgiving
Antwan Harris / Eyewitness News Email: aharris@wwltv.com | Twitter: @antwanharris NEW ORLEANS -- Volunteers set up beds at the Ozanam Inn as the group prepares to help hundreds in need for the next...
View Article6-year-old Abita Springs boy sees things differently after being cancer-free...
ABITA SPRINGS, La. - A 6-year-old Abita Springs boy celebrates five years of being cancer-free. Today, he sees things differently, and he continues to fight. Watching Ty Crowninshield do his right...
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