Category — New Orleans, Louisiana

He is one of five candidates seeking to fill unexpired term of Bill Hubbard

An unexpected drop in state tax collections has created a midyear budget deficit that could be as high as $400 million.

Covington Food Bank running out of food and asking for donations.

The controversial contract to redevelop a New Orleans landmark is on hold because the local developer, Stewart Juneau, said he wants it that way.

Clubhouse was to be part of an exclusive hideaway for allies of Gov. Richard Leche

Louisiana officials on Monday took a small step toward issuing bonds to help finance the state’s share of levee and coastal restoration costs based on money the state will receive from offshore oil production after 2016. The state’s Coastal Protection…

An unexpected drop in state tax collections has created a mid-year budget deficit that could be as high as $400 million, adding dark new clouds to the state’s bleak financial forecast as lawmakers prepare for the start of their annual…

Stewart Juneau remains interested in project, allies say

Expropriation price is $1.75 million more than 2005 purchase price

A federal jury began hearing testimony Monday in a civil lawsuit by a pair of men who say they were arrested in February 2007 by New Orleans police officers after one of them videotaped an officer pulling the hair and…

They had lived in Baton Rouge area since Hurricane Katrina

National columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. lamented that pervasive false information has strangled U.S. debate during a lecture Monday at the Loyola University School of Law, urging students, faculty and community members not to ignore facts if they conflict with their…

Students from 21 low-performing public schools are eligible

Before Phil Capitano became mayor of Kenner, the door to the second floor of City Hall was always closed. When he took the city’s top seat, Capitano put the receptionist’s desk in the front room and opened the entrance to…

Kenner mayoral candidate Phil Capitano, target of a foreclosure lawsuit filed in January, said Monday he has brought his mortgage paymentsup to date. Phil Capitano”I paid it; it’s all current,” he said. JPMorgan Chase Bank started foreclosure proceedings against…

“Monty Python’s Spamalot,” “Shrek the Musical” and “West Side Story” are among the Broadway musicals coming to New Orleans.

Either way, parish president eliminated his job

A Mandeville man faces felony charges after firing a shotgun at the fence around his home in the Beau West subdivision to “blow off steam” after an argument with his wife, authorities said Monday. Mandeville police were called to the…

Scott Threlkeld/The Times-Picayune archiveSt. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis Engineering and design work to improve the water flow in the W-14 canal in and around Slidell could start sooner than expected, as the top official in the Army Corps of…

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A federal judge on Monday began considering how a Louisiana home tainted by sulfur-emitting Chinese drywall should be fixed, with plaintiffs calling for a complete overhaul of a home and a Chinese wallboard company arguing that removing the drywall and making selective repairs would suffice.

The former head of the local FBI office, Jim Bernazzani, told WDSU he “won’t rule anything out” as a task force looks at possible candidates to lead the New Orleans Police Department.

An Arkansas woman suspected of killing her two young children was arrested in St. Charles Parish and faces extradition.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff deputies said Monday morning that they are looking for a armed man who stole a car and could be near Rudolph Matas School.

The body of a 19-year-old Choctaw man reported missing last week was recovered from the Intracoastal Canal in Larose.

New Orleans police are investigating a fatal shooting.

A state judge has postponed to July the trial for a 22-year-old Metairie woman charged in the death of her newborn in Lake Pontchartrain in Kenner.

A firefighter admitted to setting a fellow firefighter’s house on fire, police said Monday.

An LSU graduate student from India has died after falling from the six-story Life Sciences Building on campus.

A federal jury is hearing testimony about allegations that New Orleans police officers have engaged in a pattern of unlawfully arresting or harassing journalists and bystanders who tape or photograph them in public.