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Residents rushed out of notorious London Lodge Motel
NEW ORLEANS — A historic– and infamous– Hollygrove motel is now shut down. Late this week, state and local authorities told London Lodge Motel it had 72 hours to vacate its guests. Many have lived there for years and said they were struggling to find new places to live in such a short amount of time.
JP officials announce emergency lane closure in Metairie
JEFFERSON, La. — Officials from Jefferson Parish announced an emergency lane closure to repair a drain in Metairie, La., on Friday. According to officials, the right westbound lane of 17th Street at Causeway Boulevard will be closed this weekend (Friday, August 30, 2024 – Sunday, September 1, 2024).
Flooding fix on the way for West End, longer wait for Bucktown
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — The area encompassing West End and Bucktown in Metairie dealt with patches of street flooding during Friday’s rain. Jefferson Parish is working on two new pumping stations to help drain the West End area which are scheduled to be completed early next year. It...
Gert Town manhole to be repaired soon, driver still in ICU
NEW ORLEANS — An infamously raised manhole in Gert Town is finally being repaired after WWL Louisiana shared an exclusive interview with Bradley Nodier. The 45-year-old father of two slammed into the manhole earlier this week. He says the collision sent him to the ICU. Security footage shows Nodier...
Van Vranken again claims contract process, not parish president, corrupt
Jefferson Parish Councilmember-at-large Jennifer Van Vranken is doubling down on her assertion that the process to bid out a contract to wrap the parish’s transit buses in advertisements was corrupt, not parish president Cynthia Lee Sheng.
Aug. 29th: The wounds may never fully heal, but the Spirit of Louisiana will live forever
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm. It would be one of the most deadly and costly natural disasters in our nation's history. The federal levees broke. New Orleans and its surrounding areas flooded. Close to 1,400 known people died, but many bodies were...
New Orleans: A tale of two races
For years the lower 9th ward of New Orleans has been labeled a place of violence, danger, poverty, and struggle. Crime is no stranger to this area. The rates of violent crimes surpass those of any other part of Orleans parish. Residents of the 9th ward are marginalized daily as they are looked at as the forgotten people of New Orleans. In an analysis of the 9th ward, we are exposed to an array of discrepancies between the treatment of African Americans and the white population. A deeper look into the experiences of the white and black population during and post-Hurricane Katrina.
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