L’eglise Properties, whose managing member is John Malkovich, sued Crane Builders of New Orleans, et al., in federal court, claiming they overbilled him for substandard work on a “large, historic structure” on Jackson Avenue, for which he already has paid them $5.3 million.
Read moreTens of thousands of people filed into the French Quarter Friday evening to demonstrate against the deaths of George Floyd, and before him, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Modesto Reyes, Tony McDade and others killed by police.
Read moreThousands gathered in downtown New Orleans Wednesday for another night of demonstrations sparked by national outrage after the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day, a black man who cried out for his mama as police officers kneeled on his chest and neck until he died.
Read moreTen years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling in deeper and deeper waters, where payoffs can be huge but risks are greater than ever.
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Ellis Marsalis Jr., jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan that includes his sons Wynton and Branford, has died of pneumonia brought on by the new coronavirus, one of his sons said late Wednesday. He was 85.
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Barely a week ago, David McGraw was cooking daily for hundreds of fine diners at one of New Orleans’ illustrious restaurants. Today he’s cooking for himself at home — laid off along with hundreds of thousands of people across the country in a massive economic upheaval spurred by efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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The New Orleans Saints head to court Thursday to try to block the release of hundreds of confidential emails detailing the behind-the-scenes public relations work the team did for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese in its sexual abuse scandals.
Read moreA suspended New Orleans judge has resigned amid an investigation into accusations he displayed inappropriate sexual behavior in the courthouse.
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New Orleans news outlets on Thursday will ask a judge for an open hearing on the confidentiality of emails between Roman Catholic officials and the city’s NFL franchise, the New Orleans Saints, concerning clergy sex-abuse scandals.
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The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public-relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis.
Read moreA federal class actions claims New Orleans blew off a court order, upheld on appeal, to return $25.6 million in fines from its Automated Traffic Enforcement System.
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Ten people were shot and wounded early Sunday near the French Quarter in New Orleans. Hours later in another part of town another shooting killed two men and wounded two others.
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New Orleans is preparing to explode two giant, badly damaged construction cranes that tower over a partially collapsed hotel project at the edge of the French Quarter, bringing them down Friday before a tropical storm that could cause them to tumble out of control.
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Rescue crews on Sunday searched for a worker missing in the partial collapse of a New Orleans hotel that was under construction, their work proceeding cautiously amid fears about the stability of the structure, authorities said.
Read moreA federal judge affirmed an order in a consolidated case that New Orleans must refund to drivers all the Automated Traffic Enforcement System tickets issued from Jan. 1, 2008, through Nov. 3, 2010.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement must make parole decisions on an individual basis for immigrants seeking asylum instead of issuing blanket denials.
Read moreThe federal government must face Louisiana landowners’ claims relating to land the Army Corps of Engineers took after Hurricane Katrina, a federal court ruled. The landowners claim the government took their property without compensation by altering shoreline along Lake Pontchartrain to improve the flood control system for New Orleans.
Read moreCarrying “off the chart” amounts of moisture, Barry crawled ashore Saturday in Louisiana and quickly weakened to a tropical storm that promised to dump heavy rains that could last for days and pose a test of the flood-prevention systems built after Hurricane Katrina 14 years ago.
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Even as Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Mississippi River’s levees held up when those in other parts of the city did not.
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A potential tropical storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico presents twin troubles for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi — the possibility that the flooded Mississippi River will strain the levees this weekend, and a danger of flash floods like the one that unexpectedly walloped New Orleans on Wednesday.
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