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Goyeneche: Cantrell's cell phone could be key to the case
It starting to seem like a possibility. We are learning that several pieces of evidence have been gathered, and President of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, Rafael Goyeneche, says there are clue in the Vappie indictment that lead to that fact.
Wild hogs wreaking havoc on the highways in St. Charles Parish
ST. CHARLES PARISH, La. — Recent estimates indicate there are more wild hogs in Louisiana than the combined populations of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette. In St. Charles Parish, the descendants of domesticated pigs are wreaking havoc on the highways. Tuesday, the SCSO released a statement saying, “Recently,...
MN church group stranded for days in New Orleans
MINNEAPOLIS — A Twin Cities church group is on its way home tonight, after spending the last few days stranded in New Orleans. “We are really sick of the airport,” Leisha Tays, supervising the trip, said in a FaceTime call from the airport. That trip, to the Evangelical...
More beds for addiction treatment are coming to New Orleans, with new Odyssey House facility
Odyssey House Louisiana announced Monday morning (Feb. 19) that it will add 100-beds for short-term (28 days) addiction treatment and 50 beds for patients who are detoxing, once renovation of a new facility at 2700 South Broad Street is complete. As one of four in-patient addiction treatment programs in New...
Mayor Cantrell makes first public appearance since Vappie indictment
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell made her first public appearance Wednesday since her former bodyguard, Officer Jeffery Vappie, was indicted. Vappie was charged federally with wire fraud and making false statements. The indictment does not name Cantrell or charge her with any crime, but it refers...
No prison for a nursing home owner who sent 800 residents to ride out a hurricane in squalor
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three years of probation. Bob Dean Jr. also must pay more than $358,000 in restitution to the state health department and more than $1 million as a monetary penalty, but state Attorney General Liz Murrill expressed frustration in a news release that Dean didn’t get any prison time. “We asked specifically that he be sentenced to a minimum of 5 years in prison, and not be given only probation. I respect our judicial system and that the judge has the ultimate discretion over the appropriate sentence, but I remain of the opinion that Dean should be serving prison time,” her statement said. Dean, 70, owned seven nursing homes in New Orleans and southeast Louisiana. As Ida approached, Dean moved hundreds of residents into a building in the town of Independence, roughly 70 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of New Orleans.
Yes, New Orleans humidity hits different. Here's why the heat is so dangerous each summer.
Surrounded on nearly all sides by large bodies of water and miles away from the cool, dry air that flows so abundantly in the northern U.S., New Orleans is doomed to be hot and humid for several months each summer. Though the city's daily highs rarely rise to triple digits...
AmeriCorps CEO gets a look at a volunteer-heavy project to rebuild Louisiana’s vulnerable coast.
VIOLET, La. (AP) — A volunteer-heavy effort to restore some of Louisiana’s eroding coast with recycled oyster shells was part of the scenic backdrop Wednesday for a visit from the head of AmeriCorps, the federal agency that deploys volunteers to serve communities around the nation. Michael Smith, the...
Former body guard for Mayor Cantrell is innocent, attorneys say
NEW ORLEANS — Former NOPD officer Jeffrey Vappie, who served as the body guard for Mayor LaToya Cantrell, says he is innocent of the charges against him in a federal indictment that came out last week. “Jeff Vappie is innocent of the charges against him,” said attorneys Harry Rosenberg...
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