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With 2 New Orleans escapees still loose, a dozen alleged accomplices are arrested

1:21am May 27, 2025

As of Tuesday, there are more alleged accomplices than fugitives. Two of the 10 escapees are still on the run, while a dozen others are charged with helping them either before or after May 16.

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A worker said he'd be 'shanked' if he didn't help 10 New Orleans prisoners escape

2:24pm May 20, 2025

Five of the 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet on Friday are still missing. Authorities believe they had help from the inside and made an arrest on Tuesday.

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Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort

5:00am March 21, 2025

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

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The attack in New Orleans reveals ISIS' influence lingers, experts say

3:31pm January 03, 2025

The man behind the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans said in videos that he was inspired by ISIS and had joined the group this summer. This attack shows ISIS' resonance and resilience persists.

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Photos: Bourbon Street reopens in New Orleans after truck attack

7:11pm January 02, 2025

Bourbon Street re-opened in New Orleans Thursday afternoon, more than 24 hours after Wednesday morning's attack by a Texas man driving a Ford pickup truck plowed into a crowd of New Year's revelers.

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FBI says the suspect in the deadly New Orleans truck attack acted alone

1:54pm January 02, 2025

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver of the pickup truck who plowed into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year's Day, killing at least 14 people, acted alone, the FBI said Thursday.

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The Sugar Bowl is postponed to Thursday after the deadly attack in New Orleans

2:38pm January 01, 2025

The new kickoff time for the game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Georgia Bulldogs is 3:00 p.m. CT on Thursday, according to the Sugar Bowl as of Wednesday evening.

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New Orleans mayor says New Year's Day incident was a 'terrorist attack'

8:05am January 01, 2025

A vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans' famed Canal and Bourbon Street in the first hours of New Year's Day. The FBI is investigating the incident.

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2 killed and 10 wounded in shootings near New Orleans parade route

2:13am November 18, 2024

Two people were killed and 10 others were wounded in two separate shootings along a New Orleans parade route and celebration attended by thousands on Sunday, authorities said. There were no immediate arrests.

Trash lines the gutter on Bourbon Street, in the early hours of the morning after Mardi Gras, in New Orleans, Feb. 18, 2015. It's a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers clamoring with outstretched arms.

Mardi Gras beads in New Orleans are creating an environmental concern

6:55pm February 12, 2024

by The Associated Press

Despite a daily cleanup that leaves the post-parade landscape remarkably clean, uncaught beads dangle from tree limbs like Spanish moss and get ground into the mud under the feet of passers-by.