NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Michael Anderson should die for ambushing and slaying five teenagers in New Orleans in 2006, a jury has decided.
NEW ORLEANS, March 14 (UPI) -- A U.S. district judge refused Friday to sign off on a desegregation plan for a New Orleans-area school district, calling it "vague, generalized and open-ended."
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Another noose scandal is brewing, this time in the New Orleans area where parish officials have located a rope and other items deemed racially offensive.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan, facing a $3.7 million judgment for firing white employees, has resigned after five years in office.
CHALMETTE, La., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- The rural coastal Louisiana parish of St. Bernard Wednesday observed the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastation with optimism and promises.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Schools in New Orleans' state-run Recovery School District lack space and teachers for 300 students on a waiting list since Jan. 8.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A coroner in New Orleans says allegations a doctor and two nurses euthanized four elderly patients after Hurricane Katrina will go to a grand jury.
NEW ORLEANS, April 21 (UPI) -- A records check showed a man held for six months in Louisiana jails for attempted murder had originally been arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- New Orleans remains weeks away from having a safe and reliable water supply.
NEW ORLEANS, March 31 (UPI) -- A federal jury has ruled New Orleans' first black district attorney discriminated against 43 white employees when he fired them in 2003.
