Mardi Gras
NOP96022003-20FEB96-NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA: Thousands of Mardi Gras revelers pack Bourbon St. in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Feb. 20, as celebrations of Mardi Gras day take place. UPI aj/a.j.sisco
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New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting suspect Akein Scott's bail has been set at $10 million, a judge decided Thursday.
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An Alabama man claims in a federal lawsuit he was beaten by New Orleans police while handcuffed to a bench during the 2012 Mardi Gras.
A third suspect has been arrested for a quadruple shooting on New Orleans' Bourbon Street during the city's Mardi Gras festivities, police said.
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A reveler who allegedly threw urine from a pre-Mardi Gras parade float has been banned from the event and is under investigation, New Orleans police said.
A videotaped encounter between white state troopers and two young black men during New Orleans' Mardi Gras should be investigated, a civil rights group says.
A second man has been arrested in the shooting of four people during weekend Mardi Gras celebrations, New Orleans police say.
New Orleans police said Monday a suspect in a Bourbon Street shooting during Mardi Gras festivities that wounded four people had turned himself in.
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