A Metairie mother says her 17-year-old son died by suicide hours after Rummel High expelled him and has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging negligence.

Mystikal (Michael Tyler) pleaded guilty to a reduced third‑degree rape charge in Ascension Parish and faces up to 20 years. A judge ordered a presentence investigation ahead of a June sentencing hearing.

Jefferson Parish is four years into a 20-year, $2.3 billion push to replace aging water and sewer pipes and upgrade treatment plants. Work on lift stations, meters and clarifiers is already underway.

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.