By Danae Columbus | Uptown Messenger | January 13, 2022 As with most mayors entering a new term, LaToya Cantrell delivered an upbeat message at Monday’s Covid-restricted inauguration on the steps of Gallier Hall: Though New Orleans has endured a tough four years, citizens are resilient, and many opportunities lie ahead. “Our time is now, and…
January 12th, 2022 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that DONISESHA LEE (“DONISHA LEE”), age 30, of Harvey, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, before United States District Court Judge Sarah S.…
By Shay O’Connor | WDSU | January 11, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO The NOPD announced that beginning this week the department will no longer issue citations for small possessions of weed alone in the parish. Monday the people of New Orleans spoke out. Ashana, a New Orleans resident said “It is about time. Marijuana has…
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By Natasha Robin | WVUE | January 6, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Chief Shaun Ferguson said last year the NOPD was presented with several challenges, especially when it comes to police manpower and violent crime. Overall crime was down in 2021, but violent crime went up. Ferguson says we ended 2021…
By Anna McAllister | WGNO | January 4, 2022 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In less than a week and a half, seven-year-old Dillan Burton was shot and killed in her mother’s car in Algiers, and a one-year-old was shot multiple times, allegedly by his own father, in the Marigny. “Unless and until…
By Natasha Robin & Mykal Vincent | WVUE | December 31, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Violent crime has taken its toll on New Orleans over the last 12 months. Criminologists worry the increase in violence will continue into 2022. “As bad as 2020 was from a violent crime perspective, 2021 was even worse,”…
By Danae Columbus | Uptown Messenger | December 30, 2021 Year-to-date crime trends in Orleans Parish, Dec. 26, 2019-21. (Metropolitan Crime Commission chart, NOPD data) More than 6,000 new Covid-19 cases were identified in Louisiana on Wednesday (Dec. 29). A teenage boy was injured in the second of two Desire-area shootings Tuesday evening. Three lions…
By Ken Daley | WVUE | December 28, 2021 NEW ORLEANS – The identities of five recent fatal shooting victims were revealed Tuesday (Dec. 28) by the Orleans Parish Coroner’s office, including that of 7-year-old Dillan Burton, the young girl killed Sunday night while riding in her mother’s car in Algiers. Burton’s family already had…
By Harrison Golden | WDSU | December 27, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO An Algiers family faces a task they never imagined: planning a seven-year-old girl’s funeral. The girl, Dillan Burton, was riding in her mother’s car just before 9 p.m. Sunday near Gen. DeGaulle Boulevard when someone shot her. Her mother rushed toward a hospital,…