People across the Big Easy are decorating their homes in lieu of traditional carnival celebrations and leaving beads and other Mardi Gras throws on front porches for passersby.
Read moreAn insurer argues it does not have to provide coverage to an architectural firm that built homes in New Orleans for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation because the company was aware of its own missteps and negligence in building the defective homes.
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Tropical Storm Sally formed Saturday off south Florida, becoming the earliest 18th-named storm on record in an Atlantic hurricane season as it enters the Gulf of Mexico amid signs of strengthening further.
Read moreNarcotics officers were entitled to qualified immunity on a man’s claims relating to their mistaken arrest of him instead of his half-brother, who has the same name, the Fifth Circuit ruled. The man lost his job after local news covered the arrest. The court determined the record suggests the officers made an “honest mistake.”
Read moreTwo individuals who sued Uber for not providing a wheelchair-accessible ride-sharing option in New Orleans have Article III standing to pursue their case and are not subject to an arbitration clause in the app’s terms and conditions, the Ninth Circuit ruled. Uber claimed the plaintiffs consciously avoided downloading the app and signing its terms and conditions but downloading the app and creating an account would have been a “futile gesture” for them.
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The sheriff of New Orleans can be put back in control of the city’s long-troubled jail despite still-serious problems that triggered U.S. Justice Department oversight and a 2012 lawsuit, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreL’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.
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