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By Mike Triplett, The Times-Picayune January 19, 2010, 3:09PM After making a brief and inspirational return with the New Orleans Saints last week, tailback Deuce McAllister is planning to announce his retirement today. md saints […]

By Gwen Filosa, The Times-Picayune January 19, 2010, 8:49PM leon-cannizzaro-speech.JPGTed Jackson / The Times-Picayune’We must be willing to think differently today, to work together to build a more modern system,’ District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said […]

By Benjamin Alexander-Bloch January 18, 2010, 5:29PM A suspect has been apprehended in the afternoon shooting of two teenagers found near the West Bank’s Martin Luther King Jr. parade. About 2:15 p.m., parade goers heard […]

By Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune January 19, 2010, 7:32AM new orleans mayoral candidates.jpgTed Jackson / The Times-PicayuneRob Couhig, John Georges, Troy Henry, Mitch Landrieu James Perry and Nadine Ramsey, left to right, on Jan. 5. […]

Wednesday – January 13, 2010 – 7:48pm Comments (158) » ShareThis Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have made good on their promise to reach out to victims of the massive earthquake that struck the island […]

By Benjamin Alexander-Bloch January 18, 2010, 5:29PM A suspect has been apprehended in the afternoon shooting of two teenagers found near the West Bank’s Martin Luther King Jr. parade. About 2:15 p.m., parade goers heard […]

By Leslie Williams, The Times-Picayune January 16, 2010, 12:25AM A 47-year-old New Orleans resident has been charged by a federal grand jury with threatening to kill President Barack Obama. A four-count indictment was issued Thursday […]

By The Times-Picayune January 14, 2010, 6:40PM Hubert Ellzey Jr. secretly bilked clients out of $777,000 before Hurricane Katrina put an end to his scheme. When the storm hit Aug. 29, 2005, all real estate […]

By The Times-Picayune January 17, 2010, 9:21AM The New Orleans Police Department is investigating the apparent shooting death of an unidentified man Saturday night. The offense occurred around 11:45 p.m. in the 7800 block of […]

By Dave Walker, The Times-Picayune January 16, 2010, 5:00AM Hollywood — The Arizona Cardinals had made it a runaway against the Green Bay Packers, so there was plenty of down time for chat on the […]

By Jarvis Deberry January 16, 2010, 5:55AM The movement to discredit Warren Riley continues. Wednesday, on just the 13th day of 2010, New Orleans recorded its 10th homicide. On Thursday, two New Orleans police officers […]

By Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune January 15, 2010, 4:00PM 11wbshepherd4Susan Poag / The Times-PicayuneAs his attorney John Reed, his mother Margie H. Richardson and father Eddie Shepherd stand by his side,State Sen. Derrick Shepherd,second from […]

By Michelle Hunter, The Times-Picayune January 15, 2010, 3:19PM Jefferson Parish authorities arrested a two men and a woman for allegedly running a pair of Metairie motels as “houses of ill repute.” Manhesh Mistry.jpgJPSOManhesh MistryManhesh […]

By Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune January 10, 2010, 8:00AM warren_riley.JPGMatthew Hinton / The Times-PicayuneNew Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley made the allegation against City Councilwoman Stacy Head in an interview on WBOK-AM.With just months left […]

By Gwen Filosa, The Times-Picayune January 09, 2010, 1:04PM Prosecutors have dropped a criminal case against an investigator for the Orleans Parish Public Defenders Office, months after a dramatic court hearing in which she was […]

By Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune January 08, 2010, 10:07PM Three people, including a brother and sister, were fatally shot and another woman critically wounded late Thursday night in a home invasion in the St. Roch […]

Raping boy brings 38-year sentence for Marrero man By Times-Picayune Staff January 08, 2010, 3:00AM A Marrero man, acquitted last year of raping a girl and convicted in another case of sexually abusing an 8-year-old […]

Three people dead, one wounded in overnight New Orleans shooting By The Times-Picayune January 08, 2010, 6:00AM nopd-badge.jpg An overnight shooting left two young women and one young man dead, according to the New Orleans […]