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A total of eight people were booked over the Thursday and Friday of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in Baton Rouge. The following are their names and charges against them: Kenneth Dean, 22, 40237 Coontrap Road, Gonzales,...

Former St Tammany Parish District Attorney, Walter Reed, will have his trial for corruption charges moved to April pending new charges. They will be adding another charge of wire-fraud to bring the total number of counts...

Orleans Parish School Board President, Seth Bloom, sat down with WWL Channel 4 news to discuss the McDonogh 35 ribbon-cutting and the new campus. Please check here to watch the video.

The Orleans Parish School Board met Thursday at the former site of McDonough 35 where they passed several new policies seeking to ease the access to families to top level schools in the New Orleans area.These changes will...

Seth Bloom, Orleans Parish School Board President, is quoted in the article discussing some of the reforms and how the schools have changed the 10 years since Katrina. Please check out the full article and video here.

OPSB President, Seth, Bloom attends the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Paul F. Dunbar school located at 9330 Forshey Street in New Orleans.

  OPSB President Seth Bloom attended the Stuart R. Bradley Elementary School this morning located at 2401 Humanity Street in New Orleans.

As an ongoing proactive effort to remove impaired drivers from the roadways, the Orleans Parish Police Department will be conducting a DWI Checkpoint, Wednesday, August 19, at an undisclosed location in Orleans Parish. The...

The Orleans Parish School Board has decided to halt the property auction slated for Thursday, August 20. Some of the properties may still go on to be sold, while a select few, namely Valena Jones Elementary and Louis...

As an ongoing proactive effort to remove impaired drivers from the roadways, the Mandeville Police Department will be conducting a DWI Checkpoint, Friday, August 21, at an undisclosed location in Mandeville. Never drink...

Seth Bloom, President of the Orleans Parish School Board, visited Audubon Charter, located at 428 Broadway Street in the Riverbend area of New Orleans, for their ribbon cutting ceremony.

In New Orleans, bicycle riding recreationally and as a primary method of transportation has reached a record high. On any given day in the city, you will see groups of people leisurely riding for fun, people furiously...

Tony Thomassie, a former constable in Jefferson Parish, was arrested Wednesday on the West Bank Expressway after crashing into the back of a vehicle making a turn into a grocery store parking lot. The victims of the crash...

On Wednesday, July 1, Armer Bright, the Orleans Parish public school system’s diversity contracting director, admitted in U.S. District court his role in the Ira Thomas janitorial services fraud conspiracy. Bright...

Donald Ealy, 59, was arrested for DWI Friday evening after critically injuring two people on a motorcycle on Elysian Fields and North Roman.  NOPD released a statement Saturday morning indicating the couple of the...

Paying your municipal “ticket” or summons online is NOT possible in New Orleans. The arresting NOPD officer or New Orleans sheriff’s deputy has probably given you incorrect information that you don’t have to be...

Louisiana is implementing new 6 million dollar DWI technology that will make reporting and information available across parish lines and shorten the amount of time for these agencies in regards to DWI arrests. With this new...

A 26-year-old woman, Irina Palushina, crashed her vehicle early this morning into the Ernest K. Morial Convention Center. Palushina was charged with reckless operation, careless operation, and DWI. The driver was on Calliope