NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sylvester Francis, the founder of the small but highly respected Backstreet Cultural museum that features an array of exhibits from various aspects of African American culture...
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By KEVIN McGILL (AP) — A New Orleans thoroughfare named for the former president of the Confederacy will be renamed next year to honor a local civil rights icon and longtime president of a histo...
By MELINDA DESLATTE and MARY CLARE JALONICK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is experiencing some COVID-19 symptoms....
NEW ORLEANS, La (WTDN) - Aaliyah Hammond, 19, and Diamond Gibson, 21, are cousins, best friends and now business owners. The two launched their online swimwear business called Two Cheeky Swimwear on J...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Crews on Saturday recovered the body of one of two construction workers that had been trapped nearly 10 months ago in the collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel under construction in...
By KEVIN McGILL (AP) — The sheriff of New Orleans can be put back in control of the city’s long-troubled jail despite still-serious problems that triggered U.S. Justice Department oversigh...
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY and REBECCA SANTANA (AP) — Demonstrators rallied at separate events Thursday to demand continued $600 federal coronavirus unemployment benefits and to put an end to ev...
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY (AP) — Contractors have not been able to recover either of two remaining bodies from the wreckage of a hotel that partly collapsed during construction last year, and they d...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said Friday that he would not run for a third term in a race that drew two sitting city judges and one of his fiercest critics, a...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans trumpeter, vocalist and bandleader is offering kids trumpets in exchange for guns.
Shamarr Allen started the project last week, after a 9-year-old boy was shot ...
