Electricity supplier Entergy New Orleans claims in court that a Virginia-based public relations firm hired actors instead of recruiting supporters to speak at public meetings in favor of a proposed power plant, spurring a costly investigation into whether the utility knew its backers were paid.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a claim that New Orleans is trying to enforce “an unconstitutional content-based regulation and prior restraint of speech” regarding a mural on one man’s property featuring “two vulgar words used by [Donald] Trump” on an “Access Hollywood” tape.
Read moreOrleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman says The New York Times defamed him and his office in a July 9 video op-ed in which a former jail inmate claims he was raped and sold into sexual slavery for $20 in commissary items.
Read moreNew Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in May for his removal of four Confederate statues that were formerly prominently placed around the city, the Kennedy Library Foundation announced Tuesday.
Read moreA New Orleans resident who has been threatened with a fine and jail time if he does not remove a mural depicting a notorious comment made by President Donald Trump sued the city Tuesday for constitutional violations.
Read moreBy charging poor prisoners fees they are unable to pay and relying on those fees to fund the court and pay salaries, Orleans Parish Criminal District Court is violating the Constitution, a federal judge ruled this week.
Read moreTyson Foods should reduce its agricultural pollution to stop poisoning drinking water and contributing to the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, dozens of New Orleans nonprofits and businesses said in a Wednesday letter to the multinational meat company.
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The governor declared a state of emergency in New Orleans Thursday as the city’s 119-year-old drainage system teetered on the edge of failure, posing risks of more flooding if rain forecasts prove true this weekend.
Read moreA Mississippi lawmaker who compared Louisiana officials to Nazis and said they should be lynched for taking down four Confederate monuments in New Orleans apologized Monday after his comments sparked outrage.
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The family of a 15-year-old who killed himself while awaiting trial in an adult jail has sued New Orleans and its sheriff and district attorney for negligence and wrongful death.
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Still fighting the Civil War, after hours of heated debate, the Louisiana House on Monday night approved a bill to protect Confederate monuments statewide.
Read moreFormer Mayor Ray Nagin arrived in shackles to the New Orleans federal courthouse Thursday, a brief respite from federal prison where he has been for two years, to be deposed in a legal battle between two landfill companies.
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Under a clear, moonlit sky Wednesday night protesters on both sides of New Orleans’ Confederate monument debate gathered around makeshift fences enclosing a statue of Jefferson Davis that was slated for imminent removal.
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Thousands of people in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward got some welcome news when the Fourth Circuit affirmed they deserve compensation for property devaluation and emotional distress for living and working for years atop a landfill Superfund site.
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The Fifth Circuit and a federal judge ruled again Monday that New Orleans may remove four monuments to the Confederacy, and one monument came down, disassembled by workers wearing bulletproof vests
Read moreA New Orleans judge on Wednesday denied a request for a new trial for the man convicted in December of the fatal shooting of former Saints player Will Smith.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit upheld a request Monday to remove the statues of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and two other Confederate heroes from New Orleans city property.
Read moreLouisiana Senator Troy Brown resigned his seat Thursday, two days after filing for a temporary restraining order in an attempt to block the Senate from expelling him.
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