Louisiana woman murdered in New Orleans is 2nd person on football team to be killed in 2020, report says

CBS’s show "NCIS: New Orleans" was accused Sunday of parroting the mainstream media by "doubling down on false liberal propaganda" to paint sometimes violent protests across the nation as "peaceful" demonstrations.

More snow and freezing rain are expected from Texas to Maine on New Year’s Day after wintry weather swept across parts of the country Thursday. The National Weather Service warned of possible flash flooding and heavy rain in the Southeast Thursday night, and there were tornado watches across much of Louisiana until 9 p.m.

A Louisiana State Police trooper who had forwarded a recording of a racial slur to a Black colleague and being investigated in connection to drugs, shot and killed himself Wednesday after authorities arrived at his home, law enforcement officials said. State Police Superintendent Col.

This probably isn’t the way these travelers were hoping to end their year. A flight heading to Houston was forced to make an emergency landing at the Alexandria International Airport in Louisiana, reportedly due to a possible explosive device being found on the plane.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has scheduled a news conference for Thursday morning after the state on Wednesday reported its highest number of coronavirus cases in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic.

Luke Letlow was a Republican politician who had just been elected to represent Louisiana’s 5th District in the U.S. House of Representatives.Letlow worked as congressional district director for Bobby Jindal when he served in the U.S.

Letlow defeated representative Lance Harris in a December 5 runoff election to become the representative for Louisiana's 5th Congressional district. He was set to replace Republican Ralph Abraham, who served for three terms, and for whom Letlow served as chief of staff. «There are no words for this loss,» Abraham said in a statement.

GRAND LAKE, La. (AP) — Most couples might have wondered whether the forces of nature were against them after moving their wedding three times because of the pandemic and two hurricanes that hit almost the exact same spot within weeks of one another.

Soul, Pixar’s newest computer-animated comedy about an aspiring Black jazz musician with an important life lesson to learn, will be held—at least in my mind—in a special league of its own.I’d compare my anticipation for Soul, now available on +, to my excitement surrounding Princess Tiana. In 2009, the New Orleans bred beauty with a wonderful heart and a big, bright smile broke ground as the first Black princess in the Disney franchise.

NEW ORLEANS -- Chicago's South Side comes alive through the writings of Gabriel Bump's debut novel, “Everywhere You Don't Belong," which has earned him recognition as the 2020 winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.The nationally acclaimed award, which recognizes outstanding work from African American fiction writers, is in its 14th year and comes with a $15,000 prize given by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.

Drew Brees‘ children might be getting exactly what they want for Christmas this year.

LAKE CHARLES, La. – Heading into the Christmas holiday, people in Lake Charles are still recovering from not one, but two major storms: Hurricane Laura devastated the area in August and just six weeks later Hurricane Delta followed suit.  According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), more than 1,000 people are in hotel rooms because of Hurricane Laura.

Justin Timberlake is set to play a former high school football star in Palmer for Apple TV+, you can check out the trailer below.The upcoming film, directed by Succession actor Fisher Stevens and written by Cheryl Guierriero, follows Timberlake as the titular Eddie Palmer who returns home to Louisiana after 12 years in a state penitentiary.Palmer sees Eddie move in with his grandmother and start working as a janitor, and eventually take care of a seven-year-old gender non-confirming child,

Moulin Rouge! The Musical will kick off its North American tour in February 2022, two years after the originally scheduled opening date that was knocked out by the Covid-19 pandemic.

BATON ROUGE, La. – A Black man has for the first time spoken publicly about the beating he says he received at the hands of a white Louisiana state trooper who was recently arrested and accused of pummeling the man with a flashlight 18 times in 24 seconds.

NEW YORK -- Actor Carol Sutton, a fixture on stages in her native New Orleans who built a steady career on the big and small screens, including roles in the 1989 comedy “Steel Magnolias” and the TV series “Queen Sugar,” has died from complications from COVID-19, according to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell.

Carol Sutton, whose half-century long acting career spanned stage, movies, and television, died Thursday at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans. She was 76 and died of complications of coronavirus infection, said Tommye Myrick, a friend and local theater director.