By Sharon Lurye, Gentilly Messenger There was a precinct-by-precinct battle in Gentilly in the April 24 race between Karen Carter Peterson and Troy Carter to win Cedric Richmond’s former seat in Congress. Carter won the area with just 164 more...
An infant boy and a teenage girl were injured in a shooting Monday (April 26) night on Interstate 10 in the Gentilly Terrace area, the New Orleans Police Department reported. They were in a car on the interstate near the...
The New Orleans Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying an unknown subject and locating a vehicle involved in an aggravated assault with a firearm incident that occurred April 26. At around 5:55 p.m., a gunman fired two...
City Government / flood protection and drainage
by Katherine Hart · Published April 25, 2021 · Last modified April 26, 2021
City officials gathered in Pontchartrain Park on Wednesday to mark the end of Phase 1 of the Pontilly Neighborhood Stormwater Network construction. Neighbors, whether they were at the ceremony or not, were also celebrating the fact that, after five straight...
By Sharon Lurye, Gentilly Messenger There was a precinct-by-precinct battle in Gentilly in the April 24 race between Karen Carter Peterson and Troy Carter to win Cedric Richmond’s former seat in Congress. Carter won the area with just 164 more...
An infant boy and a teenage girl were injured in a shooting Monday (April 26) night on Interstate 10 in the Gentilly Terrace area, the New Orleans Police Department reported. They were in a car on the interstate near the...
The New Orleans Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying an unknown subject and locating a vehicle involved in an aggravated assault with a firearm incident that occurred April 26. At around 5:55 p.m., a gunman fired two...
City Government / flood protection and drainage
by Katherine Hart · Published April 25, 2021 · Last modified April 26, 2021
City officials gathered in Pontchartrain Park on Wednesday to mark the end of Phase 1 of the Pontilly Neighborhood Stormwater Network construction. Neighbors, whether they were at the ceremony or not, were also celebrating the fact that, after five straight...
A man was found dead Friday (April 23) morning on the bank of Bayou St. John, between Filmore Avenue and Robert E. Lee Boulevard, the New Orleans Police Department reported. At about 7:25 a.m., NOPD Third District officers responded to...
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist Sibil Fox and Rob Richardson (also known as Fox and Rob Rich) are among a handful of New Orleanians who have a personal stake in Sunday night’s 2021 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...
The New Orleans Police Department has obtained an arrest warrant for Ryan Reed, 29, in the investigation of an armed robbery incident involving a kidnapping on April 14 in the 4900 block of Spain Street. Reed faces potential charges of...
A man was shot to death late Tuesday (April 20) in the Milneburg area, the New Orleans Police Department reported. Third District officers dispatched to the 5300 block of Lafaye Street, near Filmore Avenue, at 11:26 p.m. found the man...
The NOPD is searching for a subject involved in an auto burglary incident that occurred Friday (April 16). At around 5:05 p.m., the victim parked her vehicle at a daycare located in the 4400 block of Old Gentilly Road to...
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist Although state Sens. Troy Carter and Karen Carter Peterson have continued to campaign almost around the clock, days of heavy rainfall coupled with a general lack of interest has led to exceedingly low early voting...
Benjamin Franklin High School students, along with Student Activities Coordinator John Parauka, gathered on campus on a Saturday in March to commemorate the founding of the New Orleans Public Schools 180 years ago. The students decided it would be appropriate...
On Wednesday (April 14), the NOPD arrested James Sansone V, 32, in the investigation of an armed robbery and kidnapping incident that occurred earlier that day in the 4900 block of Spain Street. During the course of the investigation, NOPD...
