Jogger Sought in Case of Missing New Orleans Teacher
Images Courtesy of Amy Hoyle(NEW ORLEANS) — New Orleans police believe that a jogger seen on surveillance video may have information about the disappearance of elementary school teacher Terrilynn Monette.”If anyone knows who that jogger was, or if you…
New Orleans Schoolteacher Missing After Leaving Bar
Click to name Right: Terrilyn Monnette on the night she disappeared. (Images Courtesy of Amy Hoyle)(NEW ORLEANS) — New Orleans police and family members are frantically searching for an elementary school teacher who has been missing since last Saturda…
New Orleans Police: 4 Wounded in Bourbon Street Shooting
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW ORLEANS) — New Orleans police are searching for three men who fled the scene of a quadruple shooting on the city’s famed Bourbon Street, which was packed with revelers in the final weekend leading up to the Mardi Gras festiv…
Faulty Device Caused Super Bowl XLVII Outage
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS) — The Superdome’s power company took the blame for the Super Bowl XLVII blackout that caused a 34-minute delay during the big game between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers on Friday.
Officials of Entergy…
Power Outage Delays Super Bowl
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS) — While the Baltimore Ravens were playing lights out, the lights actually did go out.
With 13:22 remaining in the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII between the Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, a power outage occu…
New Orleans’ Merchants Hope for a Super Bowl Boost
Jim Ryan/ABC News Radio(NEW ORLEANS) — Fans of the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers are flying into New Orleans for Sunday’s Super Bowl, and local business owners are happy for the influx of dollars.The Super Bowl host committee predicts t…
Roger Goodell Responds to President Obama’s Safety Concerns, HGH Testing
Christian Petersen/Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the state of the NFL on Friday. Goodell has been under much criticism for the way he has handled player safety as numerous former players are suing the leagu…
Ravens Arrive In New Orleans To Face 49ers In Super Bowl XLVII
Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS) — The Baltimore Ravens arrived in the Big Easy on Monday as they prepare to take on the San Francisco 49ers this Sunday in Super Bowl XLVII at the Superdome.Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis, who’s announced he i…
New Orleans Prepares for Super Bowl 2013 and Mardi Gras
Larry French/Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS) — The people of New Orleans have hosted nine Super Bowls since 1970, but Super Bowl 2013 may be one of the most meaningful yet.That, of course, is because it’s the first Super Bowl in New Orleans since Hurricane …
Sugar Bowl To Host Bowl Game Starting In 2015
Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The Big 12 and SEC conferences have announced that the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans will be the site of a new BCS Champions Bowl starting in 2015.
The two finalists to host the game were the Sugar Bowl and the Cotton…
Disasters, Jazz Unite Young New Orleans, Japanese Musicians
Jason Reed/Ryan McVay/Photodisc(NEW ORLEANS) — It was a scene straight out of Mardi Gras — parasols out, horns blaring that familiar sound.But the celebration played out thousands of miles from the French Quarter, along a Japanese coast still di…
Disasters, Jazz Unite Young New Orleans, Japanese Musicians
Jason Reed/Ryan McVay/Photodisc(NEW ORLEANS) — It was a scene straight out of Mardi Gras — parasols out, horns blaring that familiar sound.But the celebration played out thousands of miles from the French Quarter, along a Japanese coast still di…
Full 2007 Video Emerges of Then-Senator Obama Claiming Federal Discrimination Against New Orleans
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — On the eve of the first presidential debate, the conservative website The Daily Caller Tuesday circulated previously unreported clips of a five-year-old speech in which then-Senator Barack Obama gave a “shout-…
Romney to Visit Areas Damaged by Hurricane Isaac
John Moore/Getty Images(LAKELAND, Fla.) — In a last minute change of plans, Mitt Romney will head to visit storm affected areas in Louisiana on Friday, skipping a previously scheduled joint rally with Paul Ryan in the battleground state of Virginia Fr…
Isaac Makes Second Landfall; Levee Overtopped in Southeast Louisiana
NOAA-NASA GOES Project(NEW ORLEANS) — The center of Hurricane Isaac made a second landfall over Port Fourchon, La., early Wednesday, overtopping a levee southeast of New Orleans and leaving thousands in the dark. Emergency management officials in Plaq…
Isaac Gains Hurricane Strength, Bears Down on Gulf Coast
NOAA-NASA GOES Project(NEW YORK) — Forecasters Tuesday upgraded Tropical Storm Isaac to a Category 1 hurricane just hours before it’s expected to make landfall on the Gulf Coast, while warning that the biggest threat will be the rainfall and storm sur…
Storm Surge, Rainfall Biggest Concern as Isaac Nears
NOAA-NASA GOES Project(NEW ORLEANS) — Isaac remains a tropical storm with a chance of becoming a weak Category 1 hurricane before it makes landfall, but forecasters say the biggest threat will be rainfall and the storm surge.Forecasters have projected…
Tropical Storm Isaac’s Slow Pace Makes It More Dangerous
NOAA-NASA GOES Project(NEW ORLEANS, La.) — Tropical Storm Isaac’s plodding pace through the Gulf of Mexico means the slow-moving storm could punish coastal areas with up to 36 hours of tropical winds and 10 to 16 inches of rain, Louisiana Gov. Bobby J…
What to Do If Your Child Swallows a Magnet
ABC News(NEW ORLEANS) — Dr. Robert Noel, an associate professor of pediatrics in the Gastroenterology Division at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, offered these tips for parents and caregivers who might have magnet to…
New Orleans Icon ‘Uncle’ Lionel Batiste Dead at 81
Erika Goldring/Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS) — Fellow New Orleans drummer Herman LeBeaux once said that inside Lionel Batiste’s bass drum is the pulse of the city. Well, on Sunday evening, the city that care forgot was a little more quiet.Bati…