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Top New Orleans news: New unit set up to prosecute human trafficking; 'Friends' couch arrives; more

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Published on September 20, 2019
Top New Orleans news: New unit set up to prosecute human trafficking; 'Friends' couch arrives; morePhoto: Chris Huggins/Flickr

Here's what you need to know about what's happening in New Orleans.

Iconic 'Friends' couch will be there for you all weekend long in New Orleans

This weekend, you can sit on a replica of the orange sofa outside Jackson Square at Washington Artillery Park.

Read the full story on WWL.

5 from New Orleans stuck in Texas hotel flooded by tropical storm

Areas throughout eastern Texas have been flooded.

Read the full story on KENS5.

New unit set up to prosecute human trafficking cases

District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro announced Thursday the creation of a specialized multiagency unit that will carry out the prosecution of human trafficking cases in New Orleans.

Read the full story on WDSU News.

ACLU defends photographer facing lawsuit from former school principal

The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana is intervening on behalf of a photographer who is being sued for defamation after documenting a New Orleans school principal wearing Nazi-associated symbols at a public protest of the removal of Confederate monuments.

Read the full story on WDSU News.


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