Biker culture came to the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders celebrating the manufacturer's 110th anniversary with a loud parade and plenty of leather.
I-10 West travelers in part of Metairie may want to avoid the interstate overnight Tuesday, as crews plan to close all but one westbound lane from Clearview Parkway to Veterans Memorial Boulevard
New Orleans firefighters have extinguished a two-alarm blaze at Claiborne Ave. and Kerlerec St. The fire was called in a little before 6 a.m. Sunday. The fire department had no further details as of 8:30 a.m. Follow NOLA.com | The...
Environmental advocates and others are questioning the decision to quit using crews to look for tar balls left by the BP oil spill on Gulf Coast beaches in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
Nearly 70 percent of Louisiana's public defenders offices ran deficits last year, requiring them to dip heavily into fund balances to keep operations afloat as they struggle to represent clients who can't afford attorneys.
It’s been a long four years since RVs clad in purple and gold have driven 16 hours north in June. But for the first time since 2009, the LSU Tigers are back home in Omaha.
The iconic Huey P. Long Bridge will have a coming out party today after a seven-year, $1.2 billion facelift. Motorists are reminded that the West Bank-bound span is currently closed to traffic until 1 p.m.Numerous dignitaries are expected for the...
Pity the hapless members of the LSU Board of Supervisors. They are esteemed members of their professions and respected in their communities. But to serve on this board, Gov. Bobby Jindal apparently demanded they surrender their independence and self-respect.It seems...
The fact that L.B. Landry High School reopened after Hurricane Katrina and that the campus was chosen for a $54 million transformation is due to the perseverance of its alumni. The 74-year-old high school in Algiers is a beloved institution,...
The intelligence community has provided Congress additional counterterrorism justification for the government's controversial stockpiles of telephone and Internet records.
Officials say an offshore supply boat struck a production platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday and sank after all 20 people aboard were transferred safely to another boat.Coast Guard Petty Officer Ivan Barnes says none of the 16...
The U.S. Army Ranger killed in an apparent parachuting mishap was a 21-year-old veteran from Massachusetts who recently returned from Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.
In preparation for the Huey P. Long Bridge rededication Sunday, West Bank bound lanes of the span will close at 4 a.m. The closure, which will last until 1 p.m., also includes a portion of eastbound Jefferson Highway under the...
Over the past decade alone, graduation rates in Louisiana high schools have increased by more than 11 percentage points. Today nearly three quarters of Louisiana students graduate high school in four years, an all-time high. We're not yet where we...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Three tenants have moved into the Louisiana Business & Technology Center at LSU, bringing the number of companies in the business incubator to 35.The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/18HyQF3 ) the new companies are Factor3 Solutions, E.A.S.Y....
The firefighters are on the offensive.
Over several hellish days, the Black Forest Fire singed more than 15,000 acres north of Colorado Springs. What's left behind, in some areas, "looks like a nuclear bomb went off," according to El Paso County Sheri...
A second blast in two days killed a worker at a chemical plant in Donaldsonville Friday, just miles from the site where two workers were killed a day earlier.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The LSU AgCenter will sponsor a natural resources symposium on Aug. 1-2 at the Lod Cook Conference Center on the Baton Rouge campus of Louisiana State University.The session will focus on impact of human and...
Louisiana State Police troopers are currently searching for a vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian on LA 43 in St. Helena Parish about 5 a.m. on June 15. The pedestrian, idenitified as 21-year-old Liberty, MS resident William Iasigi, was...
The widened bridge could jump-start the Avondale area much in the same way the Crescent City Connection did for Algiers, Gretna and Terrytown in the late 1950s and 1980s.
POLLOCK, La. (AP) -- Authorities have put the federal penitentiary in Pollock on lockdown after an inmate attacked a guard Saturday.Prison officials say in a news release that the incident occurred about 8:05 a.m. They say a guard was attacked...
For families entering the New Orleans public school system this fall or wanting to change their child's school, it paid to get in early. Going into the second round of applications for the academic year starting in August, most popular...
The patriarchs of the NFL's first families of quarterbacks and coaches are anything but interfering dads. In fact, Archie Manning and Jack Harbaugh are just as influenced by their successful sons as their boys are by them.
DONALDSONVILLE, La. (AP) -- Federal investigators are expected in south Louisiana over the weekend at the site of an explosion that killed one worker a chemical plant in Donaldsonville, La. -- the second such blast in the area in as...
Federal investigators are expected in south Louisiana over the weekend at the site of an explosion that killed one worker a chemical plant in Donaldsville.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is seeking to re-book a man responsible for shooting a victim who later died from his injuries. According to Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office reports, on Sept. 2, 2012, 19-year-old Michael Jones was shot multiple times...
Turkish riot police used water cannons and tear gas Saturday to clear protesters camped out in an Istanbul park that has become ground zero in anti-government demonstrations targeting the policies of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Baton Rouge police have charged 51-year-old Michael Hebert with second degree murder in a Saturday shooting in which Hebert's brother was killed.Police spokesman Cpl. Tommy Stubbs says officers found the body of 45-year-old Wayne Herbert...
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34s - Area of Burke & Hayne Blvd. - Shooting Shooting reported in area of Burke & Hayne, in NOE, possibly involving a victim being struck by a stray bu... Posted 19.6.2013 16:15 by BryanLagarde , currently online
64g - 200 N. Carrollton - Armed Robbery reported Armed robbery just reported on 200 N. Carrollton, involving a dark complexion BM with gold teeth and dark ... Posted 19.6.2013 12:51 by BryanLagarde , currently online
34S - Near Bullard & I-10 Service Rd !eAlert - NOPD units are on the scene of a shooting near Windrun Apartments on the I-10 Service Road. Unit... Posted 18.6.2013 21:31 by Pronola , currently offline
34S - 4300 Chartres - Shooting !eAlert - NOPD units are on the scene of a shooting in the 4300 block of Chartres. Units are trying to det... Posted 18.6.2013 19:59 by Pronola , currently offline