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New Orleans New Year’s Day ramming is the latest attack to use a vehicle as a deadly weapon

By Associated Press

Police say a person who drove a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of people celebrating the new year in New Orleans was hell-bent on creating carnage.

Driver kills 15 New Year’s revelers in New Orleans truck attack, FBI doesn’t believe he acted alone

By Eric Tucker, Jim Mustian, Kevin McGill, Jack Brook, Associated Press

Authorities say a driver wrought carnage on New Orleans’ famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, killing 10 people as he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd before being shot to death by police.

Thousands remain without power in New Orleans as Francine drenches the South

By Jack Brook, Sara Cline, Associated Press

Forecasters expected Francine to weaken Friday as it crosses northern Arkansas, but the storm's slow progress will mean days of heavy rain in the Southeast, creating a flash flooding risk.

Sybil Morial, civil rights activist and wife of New Orleans’ first Black mayor, dies at 91

Civil rights activist Sybil Haydel Morial has died at age 91.

WATCH: Biden speaks about progress made toward ‘cancer moonshot’

By Will Weissert, Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press

“We’re moving quickly because we know that all families touched by cancer are in a race against time,” President Joe Biden said on Tuesday.

Father of Palestinian American teen killed in West Bank discusses son’s death

By Amna Nawaz, Sonia Kopelev

The New Orleans community is mourning the loss of a 17-year-old Palestinian American killed last month. Tawfic Abdel Jabbar is one of the 94 children, and 370 Palestinians total, killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7. In late January,…

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Can Mississippi strip felons of voting rights? Federal judges hear the case

By Kevin McGill, Associated Press

The outcome of the case at the center of Tuesday's hearing in New Orleans will likely determine whether tens of thousands of people win back the right to vote.

Lawsuit accuses Catholic schools in New Orleans of discriminating against students with disabilities

By Roby Chavez

A new class-action lawsuit claims that the Archdiocese of New Orleans asks illegal questions about students’ disabilities on its schools’ application forms.

Why the saltwater wedge climbing up the Mississippi River is a wake-up call to the region

By Roby Chavez

It used to be a once-in-a-decade event. Now, New Orleans has seen salt water threaten its drinking water twice in two years.

An Italian grocer, a famous sandwich and a long-awaited comeback

By Roby Chavez

Hurricane Ida destroyed this 117-year-old Italian deli, a beloved hallmark of the French Quarter. Two years later, the owners are preparing to reopen.