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Flash Flood warning issued for New Orleans area – neutral ground parking allowed; street flooding, power outages confirmed
NEW ORLEANS — A 'flash flood warning' was issued until 4:30 p.m. on Thursday for portions of Southeast Louisiana, including Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes, and neutral ground parking in New Orleans is allowed until 8 p.m. The warnings was in effect for 4:30 for Metairie, Kenner...
Even when big cases intersect with their families’ interests, many judges choose not to recuse
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Soon after longtime New Orleans attorney Wendy Vitter became a federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana, she heard a lawsuit against the local government in Plaquemines Parish, a peninsular province encompassing the final 70 miles of the Mississippi River, between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.
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