Willie Nelson was up to his old tricks when a Border Patrol agent smelled pot smoke coming from the country legend’s tour bus in November. He was charged with marijuana possession and ordered to appear […]

A controversial new city zoning ordinance for the Fat City section of Metairie will take effect this Thursday requiring area bars to close by midnight on weeknights and 1 am on weekends. The ordinance is […]

Police responded to a traffic accident on Old Spanish Trail to find a fellow officer already at the scene. The driver of one vehicle was an undercover narcotics officer for St. Tammany Parish who could […]

A long autumn and a colder than usual winter have contributed to a late start to crawfish season in the Gulf Coast. For this reason, it is anticipated that crawfish supply levels will not reach […]

The teams have been whittled from sixty-four to sixteen, and two teams will see their journeys end tomorrow night in the New Orleans Arena. #3 BYU will face #2 Florida, and #4 Wisconson will face […]

On Monday afternoon, oil mousse and tar balls from what is reported to be a 30-mile oil spill were washing up on beaches spanning territory from Grand Isle to West Timbalier Island. According to reports, […]

A student from Tulane University is reported to have stolen a vehicle in the early hours of Friday morning March 18th and subsequently crashing into 8 other vehicles before finally being arrested by NOPD officers. […]

When Mayor Mitch Landrieu and Police Chief Ronal Serpas took office, they welcomed outside review of their purviews, but they may have underestimated the incompetence that would be unearthed. Even more so than the review […]

Yesterday at an awards luncheon hosted by the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission in Baton Rouge, the NOPD received an award for the most DWI arrests in the state of Louisiana by a municipal police department. […]

March 12/New Orleans, LA – The New Orleans Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating 79-year-old James Ross Sr. of New Orleans, reported missing since shortly after 9:30 A.M. According to investigators, […]

Although many New Orleanians are just beginning to recover from partying during Mardi Gras, Carnival’s late start this year means that within 4 days of Fat Tuesday more parades are on their way this weekend. […]

The office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control was very busy over Mardi Gras cracking down on under age drinking and the sale of alcohol to minors. Throughout the entire state, officials gave over 825 citations, […]

The arrival of Ash Wednesday has signaled the end of this year’s carnival. It was a damp Mardi Gras season, but large crowds have led the krewes to declare 2011 a success. A large number […]

NOPD issued a statement via e-mail yesterday indicating that an unauthorized parade (identified by some as the Krewe of Eris) which took place in the Marigny neighborhood resulted in 12 arrests and injuries to 6 […]

National news anchors, 80’s pop bands, soap opera actors, and talk show hosts will all be in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Plenty of celebrity riders will be popping up in New Orleans this season, […]

With an 80% chance of rain tonight, Mother Nature is not cooperating this carnival, but it takes more than a little rain to keep a good city down. All of tonight’s krewes will be rolling […]

The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus will be rolling during Mardi Gras for the first time this year providing sci-fi afficionados with an outlet in the Carnival festivities. The parade, which is the brainchild of the […]

While Anne Hathaway lit up the Oscar stage, her co-host lit up back stage. James Franco, who has appeared on SNL as “Agent 420,” appeared to be stoned throughout his much maligned performance at the […]