New Orleans

A Mandeville man has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing computers used by the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve in New Orleans, causing $23,000 in damage. Federal prosecutors say in court records that 56-year-old Gary Peter Simon Jr. had been a contract worker for the government operation that...

The Louisiana Workforce Commission says the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for July is down almost a full percentage point from this time last year. L-W-C Secretary Ava Dejoie says the number of people looking for work has declined by 14-thousand over the last year. "The unemployment...

A former police dispatcher at the University of Mississippi has been charged with kidnapping and "touching a child for lustful purposes." Lafayette County sheriff's deputies announced the arrest this week of 37-year-old Nikki Thweatt in New Orleans. A release from the sheriff's office says Thweatt...

Crews confirm a place crash in New Orleans East. A small airplane went down near France Road and Industrial Canal. Two people were aboard, they both died. The New Orleans Fire Department responded shortly after 3:00pm. Black smoke could be seen billowing from the scene. The @NOLAFireDept , @...

Visitors attending a Saints game in New Orleans learn quickly you can never judge a hotel by its exterior. Many of the city’s most luxurious hotels hide within facades preserved from centuries past. Everything from a creole townhouse to a chandelier warehouse to the headquarters of a power company...

The City of New Orleans will open bidding on tax liens that are three years old today. Bidding for the lien notes will commence at 8am and run through Thursday at 5pm. Over 12-hundred tax liens are being sold to investors to collect money owed to the city. City Treasurer Jules Nunn says, "we have a...

A New Orleans man faces more than a decade in prison after his conviction for hiding a camera in a bathroom and capturing video of a 16-year-old girl showering. District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro's office says Nathaniel Robinson, "surreptitiously recorded extensive video of a juvenile girl sometimes...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The aquarium in New Orleans says its big new touch pool will open Oct. 5, with nine kinds of sharks and rays. The Audubon Aquarium of the Americas said in a news release the 13,000-gallon (49,200-liter) pool will be about six times the size of the current ray touch pool. Sharks...