NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans police are investigating an early morning shooting in the French Quarter. One man was found death around 3:30 a.m. Monday in the 300 block of North Peters Street. Police say the 26-year-old man was shot multiple times. WWL TV reports the shooting followed a... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A man and his girlfriend walking in the French Quarter were jumped by a group that beat and robbed them. Police say the couple was walking near Bourbon Street about 5:30 Monday morning. Two women walked in front of them. Authorities say a vehicle then stopped... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans police are investigating an early morning shooting in the French Quarter that left one man dead and 7 others injured. Officer Garry Flot, a police department spokesman, says preliminary information shows that two people opened fire into a crowd at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - At the request of a group of theater boosters, a New Orleans judge has ordered the board of Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre to temporarily halt steps to sell part of the theater building for use as a restaurant. The theater board had agreed to... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Firefighters battled an early morning blaze at the edge of New Orleans' French Quarter. The Thursday morning fire broke out in a building next to WWL television. The station said the building had been under renovation. The fire burned brightly for a while but appeared to... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Marine who had survived duty in Iraq was stabbed to death in the French Quarter while two other men were shot - one fatally - in violence that ended the Halloween weekend. Police say a man was killed about 6:30 a.m. Monday and another was... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mignon Faget has told this story before. But it still makes her chuckle. "It's true," she said with a soft laugh. "I melted down the bonbon dishes." It was back in 1970, when Faget was making a name for herself as a clothing designer. She had... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Friday lunches can get a bit rowdy at Galatoire's, the stately French Quarter restaurant that has been serving up French Creole cuisine for more than 100 years. A New Orleans tradition for the city's blue bloods, politicians and powerbrokers, this Friday's lunch dished up a new... more »