Northshore High alum Madison Plummer, 23, is the first Black woman hired full-time to an NFL equipment staff after joining the Los Angeles Rams.

MSY warns of extended TSA waits as staffing shortfalls and spring-break crowds slow screening. Officials urge arriving at least three hours before departure.

LSU and Georgia Tech launched SCEFA, a DOE-backed academy to train community leaders across the Southeast on carbon capture, starting with a January workshop and a planned citizen’s handbook.

A Metairie couple was arrested in Jefferson Parish on human‑trafficking and prostitution charges tied to two licensed massage businesses after a yearlong sheriff's probe.

Sunny today and a warm weekend, but a strong cold front Sunday night could bring severe storms and gale-force winds.

Father Korey Lavergne has been charged with three counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile; arraignment is set for March 20 in Acadia Parish. The Diocese says it is assisting investigators.

Ochsner MD Anderson installed a PET‑guided biology‑guided radiotherapy system at Ochsner Baptist — the first in the U.S. South — to treat select lung and bone tumors.

The National Weather Service is monitoring a system that could bring damaging wind, hail, isolated tornadoes and flash flooding to Iberville Parish Wednesday night. Officials urge residents to have multiple ways to receive alerts.

A Jefferson Parish sheriff’s sale is scheduled for April 1 for Metairie Towers after the lender seized the stalled, storm‑damaged complex. The auction will decide whether the lender retakes the site or a new buyer emerges.

Two North Texas women are accused of using drone-dropped plastic crow decoys to smuggle meth, phones and tobacco into a federal prison in Grant Parish, deputies say.

A French Quarter panel approved $250K for one NOPD drone, narrowing a larger request and reigniting privacy and policing debates in New Orleans.

A high‑speed pursuit ended under the I‑610 overpass in New Orleans; despite medical efforts a newborn did not survive and the driver was booked on multiple charges.

An outside analysis and district data warn New Orleans has more seats than students; officials say several K–8 campuses and a few high schools may need to close.