By: Amelia Strahan | wwltv.com | September 30, 2024 NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Cantrell still has over a year left in office. With a potential indictment looming over the rest of her term, some are wondering if she can effectively govern the city of New Orleans. “The city is not well run right now, and…
By: Chris Joseph | fox8live.com | September 27, 2024 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The U.S. Department of Justice and the City of New Orleans have asked a federal judge to start the process of freeing the NOPD from court oversight and begin the final stages of the department’s consent decree. The parties filed a joint…
By: Aubry Killion | wdsu.com | August 19, 2024 ST. CHARLES PARISH, La. — Former St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office employees are calling on Sheriff Greg Champagne to resign following a WDSU Investigation. After WDSU Investigates first story aired, revealing allegations that the agency was described as “intimidating, secretive, untrusted, unfair and a good ole boys…
By: Ken Daley and Maddie Kerth | fox8live.com | July 10, 2024 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A wanted man who allegedly drove against oncoming traffic on Interstate 10 while being pursued by state troopers was ordered held without bond on Wednesday (July 10). The wild chase Monday night in New Orleans East was initiated by…
By: Anum Siddiqui | June 12, 2024 | wdsu.com NEW ORLEANS — According to the NOPD Citizens Satisfaction Survey, overall satisfaction within the police department is at 40 percent – that’s an improvement of nine points since last year. The survey results last year showed that the satisfaction rating was the lowest since the survey…
Chris Welty / Fox 8 / May. 22, 2024 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Shoplifting incidents across New Orleans have surged by 35% compared to last year, according to NOPD. On Monday, a video posted on social media showed three women allegedly stealing armfuls of clothes from a store on N Peters in the French Quarter.…
By Lee Zurik and Ken Daley / Fox 8 / May. 13, 2024 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s request for a restraining order against a citizen who has photographed her in public with her former police bodyguard is a “pathetic” attempt to deflect attention from her own questionable actions, a crime watchdog said Monday (May…
Chris Miller/. WWL / May 7 The New Orleans Police Department is hiring a law firm to investigate whether any rules were broken when Jeffrey Vappie, a police officer on Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s bodyguard team, dined with the mayor at a French Quarter restaurant. The third-party investigation is meant to avoid the appearance of impropriety,…
DREW BROACH/ Nola.com / May 6, 2024 Operation Wrinkled Robe was the FBI’s name for its nine-year investigation and prosecution of Jefferson Parish Courthouse corruption. It produced 14 criminal convictions: of judges Ronald Bodenheimer and Alan Green of Louisiana’s 24th Judicial District Court, three executives of Bail Bonds Unlimited, five sheriff’s deputies and four other people. Three other…
David Jones/ Fox 8/ May 2 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – With a little more than two months until Louisiana’s new “permitless” carry legislation takes effect, New Orleans leaders continue to push for carveouts for the city but keep hitting walls in the legislature. Governor Jeff Landry has not taken a public stance on carveouts, but…