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RTA board fires longtime attorney, but members won’t say why
In a specially called meeting, the RTA board voted in favor of a resolution to terminate General Counsel Sundiata Haley, who ...
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Temporary exhibit to showcase history of 1811 slave revolt
The environmental and historic preservation nonprofit The Descendants Project is previewing an exhibit on the 1811 German ...
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NOPD chief says she won’t resign over security gaps in French Quarter attack
New Orleans’ top cop told city councilmembers that she’s bringing in former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton as an expert.
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Jarvis DeBerry: Quick return to revelry ‘wasn’t done with the interests of residents in mind’
As the city prepares to host two of the biggest events of the year — the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras, one right after the other ...
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Council to hold first meeting on Bourbon truck attack
The New Orleans City Council will discuss the city’s security measures — and lack of barricades — during deadly attack on New ...
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Days after attack, Carnival season kicks off with Twelfth Night parades
Days after a man killed 14 and injured dozens more in a terrorist attack on Bourbon Street, hundreds gathered blocks away in ...
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Biden’s sweeping drilling ban skips Western Gulf, nation’s hotspot for oil and spills
The ban will prohibit future oil and gas leasing in federal waters off the East and West coasts, in parts of the Bering Sea ...
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Biden meets with victims’ families in New Orleans, attends prayer service and visits memorial
President Joe Biden is taking a message to the grieving families of victims in the deadly New Year's attack in New Orleans: ...
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The Catholic Institution ‘existed in the face of slavery, racism and segregation’
The Société Catholique pour L’instruction des Orphelins dans l’indigence, or Catholic Institution, was located at the corner of Touro and Dauphine Streets in Faubourg Marigny. Marie Justine Couvent, a ...
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Bourbon Street attack resources: For survivors, victims and volunteers
Sign up for Verite's free newsletters and get the New Orleans news you need three times a week. In the aftermath of the deadly New Year’s Day truck attack on ...
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Arthur ‘Zutty’ Singleton pioneered jazz drumming
Sign up for Verite's free newsletters and get the New Orleans news you need three times a week. Portrait of Zutty Singleton and Adele Girard, National Press Club ...