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New Orleans Attorney Laura Rodrigue warned against hiring civilians on 'Fox & Friends First,' saying the move should be 'alarming' to everyone as murders surge

School district officials said the middle school teacher was last heard from on Thursday, Sept. 22.

The New Orleans Police Department is putting more officers on the street and hiring civilians for administrative jobs. The city was recently ranked as the U.S.' murder capital.

Fox News host Lawrence Jones calls on New Orleans city leaders to "step up" as the city overtakes St. Louis as America's murder capital on "Lawrence Jones Cross Country."

The New Orleans Pelicans and guard CJ McCollum have agreed on a two-year extension worth $64 million through 2026, according to multiple reports.

Pharoah Sanders, a tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world and known for the spirituality of his work, has died, his record label announced.

New Orleans hometown hero Anthony Mackie is helping rebuild roofs in the city damaged by Hurricane Ida.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham spoke with a mother of eight to understand the impact a 40-year-high inflation rate is having on families across the country.

New Orleans Police Association president Capt. Mike Glasser called for immediate action to bolster the police force and improve bail reform policies.

Tampa Bay receiver Mike Evans has been suspended without pay for one game for his role in a scuffle that resulted in him and New Orleans cornerback Marshon Lattimore being ejected from the Buccaneers-Saints game.

Three key takeaways from the state’s football scene -- and a glimpse at what’s to come next week.

At least one person was reported dead after a mudslide caused by Tropical Storm Kay swept through a neighborhood in Forest Falls, California.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback later apologized for throwing the computer tablet in a video.

Tom Brady threw a go-ahead touchdown pass to Breshad Perriman and Tampa Bay intercepted Jameis Winston three times in the last 12 minutes to beat the Saints 20-10.

Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans and Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore both were ejected for their involvement in a several-player, after-the-whistle scrap in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s meeting in the Superdome.

New Orleans overtook St. Louis as the American city with the highest number of murders with 52 homicides per 100,000 residents, according to data released on Sept. 11.

The Louisiana Bond Commission has approved a $39 million future line of credit for a critical New Orleans area power plant project that had become an unlikely pawn in the ongoing political tug-of-war over enforcing Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban.

Wil Lutz kicked a 51-yard field goal with 19 seconds remaining to cap a stunning fourth-quarter comeback by the New Orleans Saints.

Payment processor Visa Inc. says it plans to start separately categorizing sales at gun shops.

Pay raises for all officers and a $30,000 incentive payment for new hires are among the policies announced in New Orleans as city officials are seeking to reverse a steady loss of police officers.

One couple shares how the troubles of post-traumatic stress disorder affected their children's mental health and changed all of their lives.

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans in 1960.

He was credited with bringing transformative change to his city as mayor in the 1970s and was the patriarch of a Democratic dynasty.

Moon Landrieu, the patriarch of a Louisiana political family who was a lonely voice for civil rights until the tide turned in the 1960s, has died.

Brian Kelly speaks about LSU football's kicking woes following blocked extra point at end of 24-23 loss to Florida State.

Walter's race was a factor in the wrongful conviction, Innocence Project New Orleans' legal director said.

New Orleans Saints quarterback Jameis Winston's return to practice this week has generated talk about his past as a two-sport college athlete.

The urban heat island effect can make the country's most populated cities 20ºF warmer than nearby areas. Climate change will only make it more suffocating.

U.S. health officials are making extra monkeypox vaccine available to places with upcoming gay pride events.

Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation and homeowners of the houses built by the program, in an area of New Orleans that was among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina, reached a $20.5 million settlement Tuesday evening

Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation and homeowners of the houses built by the program, in an area of New Orleans hit hard by Hurricane Katrina have reached a more than $20 million settlement.

"I mean, this police officer isn't even moving. He's still just parked here," a bystander can be heard saying after she approached the officer.

Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people at the UpStairs Lounge, the City Council has renewed the search for the remains of four victims — three of them never identified.

Global warming is producing more extreme weather.

Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people in a New Orleans gay bar, the City Council has renewed the search for the remains of four victims — three of them never identified.

The 20-year-old entrepreneur from New Orleans saw his invention on Walmart shelves for the first time in Gulfport. Here’s how it works.

New Orleans has reduced the sentences of dozens of prisoners to fit the crimes they committed.

Louisiana has dropped its case against a Black man whose severe beating before his arrest in 2019 led to criminal charges and lawsuits against a state trooper. A traffic violation and charges of resisting an officer had been hanging over Aaron Bowman for two years. Court documents show the Louisiana Attorney General’s office moved to dismiss the charges against Bowman on Monday, citing “insufficient evidence to support prosecution” and “credibility issues” with the officers who arrested him.

Visa says its fiscal third quarter profits rose 32% from a year earlier, helped by yet another double-digit rise in the amount of money processed on its credit and debit card network.

American Express’ profits fell 14% in the second quarter, the company said Friday, as higher expenses more than offset record spending on its network by its cardmembers.

Quick help for suicide thoughts and other mental health emergencies will soon be as easy as 9-8-8.

The national suicide hotline will have a shorter phone number starting Saturday. Mental health officials said this will allow them to help more people.

Dozens of people are unaccounted for and more than a hundred homes have been destroyed after heavy rains in southwest Virginia.

Louisiana authorities have once again been blocked from enforcing the state’s near total ban on abortion.

Readers along the Mississippi River respond to suggestions that the West could import from that waterway.

The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades.

The man who killed a former NFL player in a New Orleans area road rage incident in 2016 cannot be tried again for murder after his conviction on a lesser charge was overturned, the state's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Authorities in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson Parish originally charged Ronald Gasser with second-degree murder in the shooting of Joe McKnight. Gasser pleaded not guilty and claimed self-defense.

The new order means a block on the mandate imposed in January by a Texas-based federal judge remains in effect, while the full court's 17 judges take up the appeal.

A court ruling is back in effect that blocks President Joe Biden from requiring federal employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

National runner-up North Carolina will play at Indiana in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Nov. 30.

The Biden administration is dropping a rule adopted under former President Donald Trump that limited which lands and waters could be designated as critical habitat for imperiled animals and plants.

The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse as Hurricane Ida approached last year was arrested on Wednesday.

Sunday on 60 Minutes, Jon Wertheim reports on a new threat faced by local newsrooms.

More than $10 billion in coronavirus relief funds is being diverted from orders of at-home rapid tests and other pandemic-related efforts.

Employees at a Starbucks store in New Orleans are the first in Louisiana to unionize.

Philadelphians living near the city's South Street restaurant corridor were saddened by not shocked by a mass shooting in the city.

Mike Krzyzewski is savoring the first taste of life after a Hall of Fame basketball coaching career at Duke.

The documentary 'Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story’ captures the vibrant energy of the Big Easy.

Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed an extensive system of floodgates, strengthened levees and other protections.

The Minneapolis Police Department will face the intense scrutiny of a federal program after a state investigation spurred by the killing of George Floyd concluded that the city's officers stop and arrest Black people more than white people, use force more often on people of color and maintain a culture in which racist language is tolerated. The court enforced plan, known as a consent decree, has been credited with bringing significant reform in some places but scorned by critics elsewhere as ineffective and a waste of taxpayer money. The 1994 crime bill gave the Department of Justice the ability to investigate police agencies for patterns or practices of unconstitutional policing, and to require agencies to meet specific goals before federal oversight can be removed.

The battle lines are so rigid that combatants can’t see that new Biden administration guidelines actually have benefits for all sectors of public education.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission annually hosts a Lionfish Challenge to encourage anglers to remove the invasive species from Florida waters by offering prizes for the most lionfish harvested.

Willie Nelson is cancelling an upcoming performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival and postponing other shows after a positive case of the coronavirus in his band.

Experts told Yahoo News that the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, growing distrust in U.S. institutions and the rise in firearm sales are contributing to a spike in violence.

Experts told Yahoo News that the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, growing distrust in U.S. institutions and the rise in firearm sales are contributing to a spike in violence.

A cathartic return of music and culture to New Orleans’ chief music festival ended its first weekend with the Red Hot Chili Peppers honoring the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins by closing out the show for his band.

The Jaguars continued the remaking of their roster in the NFL draft on Saturday.

Shannen Dee Williams grew up Black and Catholic.

After being silenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is back for the first time in three years.

The Biden administration must stop what amounts to the phasing out a pandemic-related public health rule allowing the expulsion of migrants without giving them an opportunity to seek asylum, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled Wednesday. The administration plans to end the policy outright on May 23. U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays, in Lafayette, issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday, saying the administration must stop the stepped-up processing for at least the next two weeks.

Alabama returns likely the biggest stars in college football next season, Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Bryce Young and linebacker Will Anderson.

"Our prayers are with the families during this difficult time," a Coast Guard commander said in a statement.

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday for three missing children near the Crescent City Connection Bridge in New Orleans. “The decision to suspend any search and rescue case is never easy but considering the extensive search efforts of our Coast Guard men and women, in conjunction with other response agencies, I’ve made the difficult decision to suspend our active search for the three children,” Capt. Kelly Denning, Coast Guard Sector New Orleans commander, said in a statement.

Brandon Ingram scored 16 of his 30 points in the third quarter and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the Phoenix Suns — playing with injured star Devin Booker — 118-103 in Game 4 on Sunday night to tie the first-round series.

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The Biden administration has begun phasing out use of a pandemic-related public health rule that allows the expulsion of migrants without giving them an opportunity to seek asylum.

The New Orleans Saints have been relatively small players in free agency this offseason. “As an overall philosophy,” first-year head coach Dennis Allen said, “I’d rather augment our team through free agency and really build our team through the draft.” The Saints have made modest signings in free agency since Allen was promoted from defensive coordinator to replace long-time head coach Sean Payton in January.

American Express’ first-quarter profits fell roughly 6% from a year earlier, but the company saw a 30% jump in spending on its namesake cards in the quarter as its cardmembers returned to their habits of shopping, traveling and dining.

Game 1s brought greatness out of some.

Both joy and frustration are in the air in New Orleans at the HBCU Climate Change Conference this week as environmental and climate advocates and researchers from around the United States express an urgent need for climate action and pollution cleanup in poor communities and communities of color.

When a Florida woman noticed fraudulent activity on her bank account, she tracked down the suspect at a gas station and called police.

Klay Thompson’s form is now the least of Golden State’s worries.

Fans travel from around the country to attend Opening Day at Wrigley Field.

In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a lower court's ruling and ordered a lawsuit challenging the requirement be dismissed.

On Wednesday, Amtrak joined the streaming platform Twitch to livestream empty train tracks in Mississippi. Over 1,300 people watched.

Kansas’ comeback victory over North Carolina to win the NCAA men’s basketball championship was the most-viewed title game on cable television.

More than 43,000 homes and businesses from eastern Texas to Georgia were without power Tuesday afternoon.

Cajun fiddler Michael Doucet fell and broke his hip in Alaska, and his Grammy-winning band had to perform there without him.

David McCormack’s late inside baskets to help Kansas surge past North Carolina in the NCAA championship game followed a Final Four trend.

North Carolina big man Armando Bacot never looked like himself in the national championship game against Kansas because he was battling an ankle injury.

Rock band Foo Fighters is canceling all its upcoming tour dates including a scheduled May 1 performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, following the death of its drummer Taylor Hawkins. The Who, Stevie Nicks, Lionel Richie, Luke Combs, Willie Nelson, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Charlie Wilson and Erykah Badu are among the headliners for this year's festival.

An attorney for the man accused of fatally shooting the alleged killer of his 18-year-old son and 25-year-old daughter has denied that the incident was a “matter of vigilante justice.” Bokio B. Johnson, 46, was arrested Friday in the death of 21-year-old Hollis Carter, who was fatally shot while driving to a pretrial hearing Wednesday, New Orleans police said. New Orleans police have said Carter confessed to killing Breyiana Brown, 25, and her stepbrother Caleb Johnson, 18, and wounding a third person in a gun sale gone bad last March.

The decision comes exactly 100 years to the date it was originally passed in 1922, school officials said.

Meteorologists estimate the twiters had peak winds of 160 mph, making it an EF-3 tornado.

Meteorologists estimate the twiters had peak winds of 160 mph, making it an EF-3 tornado.

A 59-year-old maintenance worker was fatally bludgeoned with a shovel Thursday morning by a man who burglarized a mosque near Sanford, Seminole County Sheriff D

A 21-year-old man accused of killing a high school student and the teen’s stepsister was gunned down on his way to a pretrial hearing, and his mother was critically wounded, the man's attorney said. John Fuller said he believes Hollis Carter was shot in the head on Wednesday in connection with a killing that he says his late client had not committed, The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported. “Street justice has resulted in an assurance that there would never be any closure in this case,” Fuller said.

Scott Withers investigates the aftermath of a powerful tornado in the New Orleans area.

Scott Withers investigates the aftermath of a powerful tornado in the New Orleans area.