New Orleans/ Community & Society
Published on November 08, 2019
Top New Orleans news: Sobering Center opens near French Quarter; UK game-testing firm coming to cityPhoto: Naveen Venkatesan/Unsplash

Read on for the most recent top news you may have missed in New Orleans.

He owns racehorses, she was a stuntwoman: How do they fit into federal probe into 18-wheeler accident fraud?

Watch Part 3 of Mike Perlstein's investigative series "Highway Robbery." 

Read the full story on WWL.

FBI seeks to identify serial killer's victims, including New Orleans woman

Samuel Little has confessed to 93 murders from 1970 to 2005, and the FBI believes the confessions are credible.

Read the full story on WWL.

New Orleans opens state's only Sobering Center

Mayor LaToya Cantrell joined other city partners and leaders to celebrate the opening of the state's only Sobering Center, a 25-bed facility near the French Quarter that treats residents and visitors for serious public intoxication.

Read the full story on WDSU News.

UK game-testing company coming to city

An English digital game-testing company plans a quality assurance testing facility in New Orleans. Gov. John Bel Edwards said in a news release Thursday that Testronic Laboratories plans to employ 150 people within five years.

Read the full story on MySanAntonio.

NASA places third engine on moonshot rocket in New Orleans

Three of four engines are now attached to the core of NASA's new Space Launch System, built in New Orleans and designed to launch the Artemis I mission to the moon.

Read the full story on WWL.


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