Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin left a federal courthouse a convict today. The politician, who was the public face of the city during Hurricane…
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin left a federal courthouse a convict today. The politician, who was the public face of the city during Hurricane…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal prosecutors rested their corruption case Wednesday against former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, leaving it to defense lawyers to counter five days of testimony from more than two dozen witnesses, including five who said they were involved in bribing Nagin. Nagin served as mayor from 2002 to 2010. Prosecutors allege […]
Losing weight can be a struggle for some, but Eric and Maleka Beal prove that when you make smarter choices, it can be easier than…
01/03/14- Roland Martin talks with Louisiana State Senator Karen Carter Peterson about why the state hasn’t utilized $1.5 billion in storm recovery aid despite the area being hit by three separate hurricanes and a struggling community.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge in New Orleans said he expected to seat a jury on Tuesday to hear the retrial of a former New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a man outside a strip mall after Hurricane Katrina. It’s the second trial U.S. District Judge Lance Africk has held in […]
In this edition of Gary’s Tea we learn Solange moved from Brooklyn to New Orleans. Gary With Da Tea says she couldn’t do her music where…
HARVEY, La. (AP) — An intensive three-day search for a missing 6-year-old girl from the New Orleans suburb of Harvey ended with the discovery of her stabbed and beaten body stashed in a trash can that investigators had already searched. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said Tuesday that a suspect, 20-year-old Matthew Flugence, was being […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two brothers with a history of drug arrests and suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a Mother’s Day parade in a New Orleans neighborhood. The arrests by city police and U.S. marshals […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have arrested the suspect wanted in a Mother’s Day parade shooting that wounded 19 people in New Orleans, police said. Akein Scott, 19, was arrested Wednesday night in the Little Woods section of eastern New Orleans, police department spokeswoman Remi Braden said. She said no additional details were available and […]
Roland Martin talks with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu about the Mother’s Day Parade Shooting, gun and gang violence and what needs to be done to decrease violence in the streets.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police vowed to swiftly track down the gunmen who wounded 19 people at a neighborhood Mother’s Day parade, the latest case of violence flaring up around a celebration in the city this year. Detectives were conducting interviews, collecting any surveillance video they could find and gathering evidence from the […]
