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New Orleans is in for a hot Monday, with a 106-degree heat index and a small late-day storm chance. A wetter pattern arrives Wednesday.
New Orleans faces a hot, mostly dry stretch with highs near 93 degrees. Rain and gustier winds return Wednesday.
Crime & Emergencies in ...
A 16-year-old drowned after three teens took an aluminum boat onto a pond they didn't have permission to use, deputies say.
Arts & Culture in ...
Music Box Village hosts its fourth drum festival on October 3, with over 100 artists from Guyana to Brazil and Haiti.
Politics & Govt in ...
A single Covington oil firm's payout after a $3.2 billion buyout skewed St. Tammany's pay data nationwide, even as Richland Parish's Meta boom tells a steadier growth story.
Tolley Fletcher, a WWII veteran, helped escort troops toward Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion.
Food & Drinks in ...
Red Oak Property LLC paid $1.5 million for the old Lagniappe site, also listed by CMac as a Ryan's Family Steak House location.
Kelin Moore, 27, was also allegedly running a firearm-conversion device pipeline out of Jackson, Louisiana, investigators say.
Flash flood warnings blanketed New Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes as storms cut power just weeks into a $270M grid overhaul.
The meat-and-three from the Turkey and the Wolf team shuts down in October, but staff will move to sister restaurants.
LSU entomologist Aaron Ashbrook says love bugs aren't even true bugs — they're flies with two generations a year.
A man who ran from a traffic stop in Marrero triggered a tense, hours-long SWAT search of the woods off Lapalco Boulevard.
Markeith and Terrell Glapion pleaded guilty in the Mt. Kennedy Drive shooting of Jakari Edwards, whose sister says he “did not deserve” to die.
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