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Five more pump stations in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish will be "storm proofed" at a cost of about $23 million in hopes that strengthening them and better protecting critical equipment will keep the structures running during hurricanes.

At the Zion Travelers day camp here on the east bank of the Mississippi River, the morning begins with clap-and-stomp chants, two dozen children in an air-conditioned white trailer, shouting and shimmying and stamping their feet.

New Orleans homicide detectives have arrested the man they believe fired the bullets that killed 25-year-old Randy Nathan and wounded the victim's father and brother in the 7th Ward on Thursday.

Louisiana officials have reopened to commercial fishing a portion of state waters that had been closed because of the BP oil spill.

Investigators with the state legislative auditor's office have been spending lots of time reviewing records at the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad this summer, and the agency's lavish spending -- on meals, entertainment, salaries and overtime -- certainly merits their scrutiny.

A federal judge Thursday agreed to postpone the trial of former New Orleans technology chief Greg Meffert and former city vendor Mark St.

The bad news: As of June 30, New Orleans city departments were on track to overspend their 2010 budgets by $14.1 million.

Fomer mayoral candidate Jonah Bascle approaches a newly installed wheelchair ramp at the Lost Love Lounge in the Marigny Wednesday.

Love wine? You may soon have yet another wine bar to visit on Oak Street in New Orleans.

Two New Orleans police officers face federal charges in the July 2005 death of a Treme man who died from various injuries, including a ruptured spleen, after police dropped him off at Charity Hospital.

A Mississippi man is set to be arraigned on charges he fired a shotgun at three black men in what prosecutors call a racially motivated attack in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.

The first New Orleans Traditional Jazz Camp opens on Sunday, Aug. 1 with dozens of campers from as far away as Finland.

I don't know about you, but my daily routine just doesn't provide enough hold-on-tight, scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs, can't-stop-laughing moments.

While City Hall has relied on federal loans and one-time revenue to stay afloat in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, records show that an obscure, century-old New Orleans agency that oversees 100 miles of railroad track and the Huey P. Long Bridge has been spending extravagantly on infrastructure improvements, salaries, meals, a fleet of vehicles ...

A Gretna man accused of blinding a 38-year-old by shooting him in the head in Central City was recently booked with attempted murder.

An Orleans Parish judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in a two-year-old murder case , finding that prosecutors had failed to let the defense team know they had the 9-mm handgun in evidence until the second day of the jury trial.

New Orleans police earlier this week solved the July 2005 slaying of a former murder suspect by booking one of his allegedly disgruntled drug customers with the crime.

The 11,000 citizens who filled the Lafayette Cajundome last week to rally against the Gulf drilling moratorium -- perhaps the biggest crowd for a political event there since when Edwin Edwards was running for governor -- served as a loudly supportive choir for Gov.

A Slidell man allegedly chased his wife through their neighborhood in his truck, beat her so seriously that she left a bloody trail behind her and then forced her on a drive to eastern New Orleans before she was able to hit him with a wrench and escape, authorities said Tuesday.

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