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New Orleans woman gives birth on same day as college graduation, receives hospital room ceremony
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Jada Sayles earned a bachelor's in criminal justice with a concentration in pre-law. The 21-year-old gave birth hours after names were read during Dillard University's graduation on campus in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
Chris Paul makes NBA playoff history in Phoenix Suns’ closeout win over the New Orleans Pelicans
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Chris Paul shot a perfect 14-of-14 from the field to help the Phoenix Suns close out their opening round playoff series with a 115-109 Game 6 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. Living up to his 'Point God' moniker, ...
New Orleans losing another high-ranking cop; deputy superintendent expected to leave amid crime surge
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Deputy Superintendent Paul Noel is expected to be named Thursday as the chief of the Knoxville Police Department in Tennessee, Fox affiliate WVUE-DT reported. New Orleans police Deputy Superintendent Paul ...
Residents describe harrowing experience as tornadoes swept through New Orleans area, killing 1
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After a tornado roared through Arabi, Louisiana, Tuesday with 136 mph winds, the walls and roof of Angel Hahn's house were gone and as the wind calmed, she grabbed her phone. "I called my mama, and I said, 'My house...
Crews are combing through devastated neighborhoods in the New Orleans area after a deadly tornado tore through the region
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Search and rescue teams were combing through debris and damaged neighborhoods in the New Orleans area overnight after a tornado slammed the region Tuesday. A tornado touched down in the Lower Ninth Ward and New Orl...
New Orleans tornado leaves one dead, thousands without power
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A large, deadly tornado battered parts of the New Orleans area on Tuesday night, with damage reported in Arabi and the Lower Ninth Ward. St. Bernard Parish president Guy McInnis told CNN one person had died in the A...
New Orleans nonprofit gives beads new life after Mardi Gras
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MARDI GRAS RETURNS TO NEW ORLEANS AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWNS: 'LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!" In 2018, for example, the city reported collecting nearly 100,000 tons of beads from storm drains. Thousands of Mardi ...
New Orleans police officer joins Mardi Gras crowd to dance
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Video shows the officer dancing to a few beats with another reveler before disappearing into the crowd. Mardi Gras is back in full force in New Orleans this year after the city canceled parades in 2021 due to the c...
‘We can begin to heal’: New Orleans school added to U.S. Civil Rights Trail
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They were front-line soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement. Alongside a fourth girl, who was starting at another all-white school in the city on the same day, they would become the first Black students to integrate e...
Mardi Gras returns to New Orleans after year of shutdowns: ‘Let the good times roll!’
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City officials in New Orleans have been preparing for months to make sure celebrations could resume this year. In August, Mayor LaToya Cantrell introduced a vaccine or negative test mandate to enter all bars and rest...
New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara arrested on battery charge in Las Vegas after playing in Pro Bowl
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New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara was arrested Sunday by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and charged with "battery resulting in substantial bodily harm," a news release from the department said. The inve...
As homicides spike in US cities, a New Orleans church remembers victims with a ‘murder board’
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The Council on Criminal Justice reports murders have gone up by 44% since the pandemic. AT LEAST 16 CITIES SEE RECORD HOMICIDES IN 2021 New Orleans is one city off to a grim start in 2022, as 19 homicides have been...
Sean Payton, coach whose Saints lifted spirits in post-Katrina New Orleans, says he is stepping down
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Sean Payton, who led the New Orleans Saints to an emotional Super Bowl win in the years after Hurricane Katrina, announced Tuesday that he is stepping down as the team's head coach. Payton, 58, had been with the org...
New Orleans police release surveillance footage of armed robbery
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The robbery occurred just after 2 a.m, in the 9200 block of Airline Highway, the New Orleans Police Department said. Footage posted online by the NOPD shows a fully masked suspect armed with a handgun demanding mone...
New Orleans police find woman’s body chopped up in ‘Dexter’ man’s freezer
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New Orleans police officers who were searching for a missing woman found a chopped up body in a freezer, a reciprocating saw covered in "bits of flesh" and her wallet in a safe on the property, according to court doc...
Pipeline spills more than 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel near New Orleans
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A massive cleanup effort is underway after a pipeline ruptured causing more than 300,000 gallons of low sulfur diesel fuel to spill just outside of New Orleans last month. The incident occurred on December 27 on a 1...