New Orleans News

Judges who preside over drug courts rely on case managers to help them determine whether convicts involved in the program are living up to requirements, like showing up for hearings and staying off drugs.

The 76-year-old woman killed in a fatal accident Saturday night on Interstate 10 has been identified as Claire Lajaunie of Metairie, according to John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner's office.

Malcolm J. "Mac" Rebennack grew up in New Orleans' 3rd Ward, served as a Carnival court page as a child and later won a talent show at Jesuit High School, which he dropped out of to concentrate on music.

The 18-year-old man who died Sunday morning in New Orleans East was shot by another man during a struggle over a gun, according to New Orleans police.

As Colonial Golf & Country Club sank deeper into debt during the past decade, public and private efforts to save it repeatedly failed.

NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans police say officers on Carnival parade crowd patrol chased a teen who was acting suspiciously and found that he had a gun belonging to the Jefferson Parish sheriff's office.

Chef Donald Link working in the kitchen holds a cooked soft shell crab at the Cochon restaurant in New Orleans.

Long before he completed his tenure as mayor of New Orleans, many city residents had lost confidence in Ray Nagin .

Authorities arrested 36-year-old Gregory George Jones early this morning in New Orleans in connection to the December robbery of a Regions Bank in Mandeville.

Twelve Mardi Gras krewes take to the streets of New Orleans and its surrounding areas Saturday.

President Barack Obama's decision to modify a plan that would have required religious organizations to provide free contraception coverage to employees is "at least a step in the right direction," New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond said Friday.

Bracing for a state probe of their spending fees from convicts on supplemental health and life insurance policies, the judges at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court have halted the practice.

" Beautiful Creatures " has its Mrs. Lincoln. Emma Thompson has signed on to join Oscar nominee Viola Davis for the Warner Bros.-backed adaptation of the supernatural coming-of-age drama, which will reportedly shoot in New Orleans this spring.

The New Orleans 9th Ward branch of the Villalobos Rescue Center won't officially open for a few more weeks.

Mitt Romney's next chance to try to persuade conservatives he's one of them comes today at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC.

The fallout from severe layoffs at the Orleans Parish public defender's office came to an early head Friday inside a criminal courtroom.

A blast of arctic air will enter the New Orleans area this weekend, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a hard freeze watch for St.

Longstanding questions about free trips and gratuities that former Mayor Ray Nagin allegedly accepted while in office are now the subject of a federal investigation, people with direct knowledge of the probe said Friday.

This week's "Lagniappe" takes a closer look at Family Gras in Metairie, the new venture by Papa Grows Funk and M Bistro's twist on local favorites.

On paper, Reggie Williams looked like the ideal candidate to lead the public-private New Orleans Recreation Development Commission .