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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. This year...

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, 666 of which were

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 of raucous college students was due

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 police...

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, and as usual Endymion is...

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 regardless of the weather. Hermes,...

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 3 Ring

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 Oscars. He seemed...

NOLA.com reported yesterday that the New Orleans Police Department shut down an annual Mardi Gras costume sale at the Blue Nile on Frenchmen Street on Sunday afternoon due to the fact that the bar is not licensed to sell...

The cake nabber, identifying himself as Paz on facebook, has shown himself to be a modern day Robin Hood (and maybe a little Marie Antoinette) by stealing the $3,200 cake from Paris Hilton and feeding it to the Los Angeles...

NOLA.com reported today that the week of May 10 has been set as the tentative date for a federal appeals court to hear oral arguments in William Jefferson’s appeal of his federal corruption conviction. Mr. Jefferson who

On Thursday U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that they had seized over 9 million dollars worth of opium at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The drug had been packed into more than thirty porcelain cats and...

Fifty-eight year old Jack Mizer is well acquainted with the legal proceedings for a DUI, having received 9 of them, but his latest charge will carry a heftier sentence than the rest. In court he was called the greatest threat

The Times-Picayune reported today that District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office has been working recently to improve procedures at New Orleans Criminal District Court. Among other things, Mr. Cannizzaro has urged the

When Lauren Tarantino of Algiers investigated a commotion in her back yard, she discovered two pit bulls breaking through the fence to attack her Chihuahua and rushed out to protect him. She pushed one dog back through the...

For over nine months a video of Houston Police Department officers beating the burglary suspect Chad Holley was suppressed and hidden from the public. Even as the video was released to activist Quannell and then given to a...

In 1966 the Slidell City Council banned the use of, “drive-up windows and/or drive-through buildings… for any commercial establishment selling and/or dealing in alcoholic beverages.” But now after nearly 45 years, the...

NOLA.com reported today that Troy Hebert, the newly appointed head of the state Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control has announced plans to crack down on underage drinking during Mardi Gras this year. The new plan involves,