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This week we are launching what we hope will be one of many successful and engaging video blogs to help answer general legal questions from the public! For our first installment, Criminal Defense Attorney, Seth Bloom, of...

We’ve recently had a few questions submitted to us about DWIs.  DWI is a common mnemonic used in law enforcement that stands for “Driving While Intoxicated”. Someone submitted a question inquiring, “How long

As news emerged last night that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a raid on a Pakistani compound by US Special Forces, an interesting story emerged of a man who live-blogged the raid without knowing what he was doing....

Today marks the first major day for Jazz Fest 2011 and the city is already visibly packed with tourists and festival-goers of all sorts. Many rental properties are being occupied exclusively for the festival weekend and...

For two and a half years the “birther” movement has questioned whether President Obama is a natural born citizen and eligible to be commander in chief, despite the fact that his standard short form certificate has been...

Derrick Caracter, a backup forward for the Los Angeles Lakers (who were beaten by the New Orleans Hornets in the NBA Playoffs last night), was arrested early Sunday morning for allegedly hitting a pregnant waitress at the...

The City of New Orleans has issued parking instructions and reminders in advance of the Crescent City Classic 10K road race scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 23, 2011. The event is expected to attract more than...

John LaBruzzo, a Republican state legislator from Metairie (who last made headlines in ’08 when he announced that he was studying a plan to pay poor women $1000 to get their tubes tied), has filed a bill which would ban

Actor Nicolas Cage was arrested on Friday night in the French Quarter. According to sources, Mr. Cage was seen having an argument with his wife outside of a French Quarter residence and at some point became agitated and began

Mayor Mitch Landrieu has been following through on his plan to clean up 10,000 of the cities nuisance properties by 2014. However, preservationists, including the producers of the HBO series Treme, have spoken out against the

NOPD has issued a statement today indicating that it will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint tonight (Friday 4/15) in the Lakeview area from approximately 9pm to 5am. No specific indication as to the location of the...

There are many subtleties in the DWI law code, and almost all of them are designed to take drivers off of the road and put them in a cell. Benjamin Edwards, 23, learned this the hard way when he was charged with a DWI while...

This week has seen a number of drug charges for out of state residents with a Virginia woman’s attempt to transport 81 pounds of marijuana on I-12 and an Alabama man’s hotel room meth lab. The woman, Tasharian Riddick,...

In its 28th year, the annual free French Quarter Festival has grown to an impressive size. This year the festival is expected to play host to hundreds of thousands of visitors (as confirmed by the large number of hotels...

The pair would contact local dealers and private sellers about purchasing a vehicle and secure a test drive. As the pair drove away in the car, the dealer was left to figure out they were never coming back. Joseph and Jessica

Festival season has officially begun and every weekend is filled with good food and good music, and the biggest music fest of them all is fast approaching. Jazz Fest has announced its schedule for 2011. Now the difficult task

Rep. Reed Henderson D-Violet, has introduced a bill in the Louisiana state legislature which proposes an increase of $30 to the court costs already added to fines imposed in Orleans Traffic Court. The proposed bill is...

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 in a Texas court. To