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Over three months after the Orleans Justice Center jailbreak, Derrick Groves remains at large. Authorities continue the manhunt and offer a $50,000 reward.
New Orleans has a busy weekend with Mid-Summer Mardi Gras, a Saints home game and Hurricane Katrina anniversary events. Here are some of our top picks of things to do. 🍾 Brennan's teaches diners on Friday how to slice open a bottle of champagne.
ANNIVERSARY: The Air Jordan turns 40 The Air Jordan sneaker turns 40 this year. "Sunday Morning" celebrates the design of the iconic shoe with correspondent Luke Burbank, who traces its origins back to NBA legend Michael Jordan's first meeting with Nike, then a relatively small sneaker company in Oregon. [Originally broadcast May 18, 2025.]
NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO) — Tyrann Mathieu was honored at the New Orleans city council meeting Thursday, Aug. 21 with a key to the city.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration has continued to take a cut of the Orleans Parish School Board’s tax revenues, despite a City Council ordinance blocking it.
Khalil Bryan, 30, was released from the Orleans Justice Center on July 25 due to a "human failure" that led to two deputies being fired, according to the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office. He was "safely apprehended" in Texas after an anonymous tip led to "critical information on his whereabouts," the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office said.
The New Orleans native who first starred at St. Augustine High, transformed into the iconic "Honey Badger" at LSU and produced a 12-year NFL career that ended with a three-year stint with the hometown Saints, was presented the key to the city by Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Thursday, and the New Orleans City Council proclaimed it Tyrann Mathieu Day.
Diane Chaine grew up in Park Ridge, but moved to New Orleans in 1998. She didn't evacuate before the hurricane because her family didn't have transportation. They hunkered down in a second-floor apartment in the French Quarter with friends and her 18-month-old baby.
He says that studying lead levels requires studying the soil itself, and lizards are a great animal to use as a reference point. “The lizards live close to the ground, so they are breathing in dust with lead in it and eating insects that have lead on and in them,” explains Gunderson.
They had no choice but to leave in 2005. Here's how they shaped new paths in different cities that may -- or may not -- feel like home. "I’m settled here. I have a great job. I make real decent money.
In this StoryCorps, a New Orleans man remembers the harrowing moments when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast nearly 20 years ago.