NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The mayor of New Orleans is threatening to lay off city employees unless voters on Saturday agree to extend three property taxes.
If the measures aren’t app...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards was released Friday from the Baton Rouge hospital where he was being treated for pneumonia and has returned home.
“He’s r...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards has been hospitalized with pneumonia, only days after he was released from a prior stay for breathing problems.
The four-term Democra...
JANET McCONNAUGHEY and KEVIN McGILL (AP) — The raucous Mardi Gras parades where riders on elaborate floats toss trinkets to adoring throngs have been canceled in New Orleans because the close-pa...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans police sergeant was charged with driving while intoxicated after he was accused of crashing a cruiser into another vehicle and rolling the squad car, injuring hi...
By KEVIN McGILL (AP) — Grammy Award-winning New Orleans trumpet player Irvin Mayfield and his musical partner, pianist Ronald Markham, each pleaded guilty Tuesday to a conspiracy to commit fraud...
By KEVIN McGILL (AP) — New Orleans will this week allow bars to open at 25% capacity as it further eases restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A suspect is in custody after two New Orleans police officers were shot Friday in the city’s French Quarter in what the police chief described as an “ambush.&rdquo...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans officials say they’ll investigate crowds that gathered in the French Quarter after the city relaxed coronavirus pandemic restrictions.
Saturday wa...
By KEVIN McGILL and REBECCA SANTANA (AP) — Thousands took advantage of an expanded early voting period that opened Friday in Louisiana ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election — forming l...
