
City Council Votes 6 to 1 to Remove Confederate Statues in New Orleans
On December 17, the New Orleans city council voted 6 to 1 to remove “prominent Confederate statues” in the city.

On December 17, the New Orleans city council voted 6 to 1 to remove “prominent Confederate statues” in the city.

A Bible found floating in a New Orleans canal led to the discovery of the body of a missing man, authorities say.

It was another example of the nationwide epidemic of black-on-black violence, as a shooting at a park in New Orleans’ 9th Ward sent at least 16 people to the hospital Sunday night. An unpermitted block party at Bunny Friend Playground with an estimated 500 people in attendance turned violent when two rival groups opened fire on each other. Victims, including a 14-year old girl, were all listed in stable condition.

Police are now searching for Euric Cain, a black gunman who allegedly attempted to kidnap a woman in New Orleans but was stopped by a heroic medical student. Before the suspect was identified by police, media had provided little help by avoiding the description of the suspect due to politically correct fears about race.

In a letter to President Barack Obama, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal demanded information about the Syrian refugees entering his state via New Orleans.

New Orleans authorities are searching for what local media illuminatingly call a “man”—27-year-old Honduran immigrant Gerson Rodriguez, wanted for raping a 4-year-old.

A man arrested for spanking a woman on the street in New Orleans claims that he acted in self-defense, reports say.

Calling the city’s Confederate monuments “false history,” New Orleans’s Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin revealed that a private citizen is footing the entire bill for the removal of four of the city’s decades-old statues erected to memorialize several Confederate leaders and one battle.

“I thought it was best to write about my own raw terror,” says activist Naomi Klein, in a moving interview in today’s Guardian. Is she talking about the time she flew to Raqqa in Syria to try to audition for

On July 9, Breitbart News reported that gun crime was surging in the Democrat-run cities of Baltimore, Chicago, Milwaukee, New Orleans, and St. Louis. We can now expand that list to include Democrat-run Houston, Philadelphia, and New York City too. According

On July 15, a customer retrieved a gun from his car after witnessing the alleged robbery of a New Orleans gas station, chased down the robber, and opened fire.

Now that the Confederate flag has been used as an excuse to eviscerate the history of the South, others are looking to destroy more symbols that are part of the region’s history, including Louisiana’s fleur-de-lis.

The left’s crusade on American history continues as New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu calls for the removal of a monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee that has stood since 1884.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal fired up a hometown crowd with his 2016 GOP presidential campaign launch speech, hammering away at liberals like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and at the entire political class on both sides of the aisle.

A man who somehow allegedly got hold of a gun while handcuffed in a police car and killed the officer transporting him was arrested on Sunday in New Orleans.

A man who attacked Transportation Security Administration workers at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans with a machete on Friday night died Saturday from gunshots fired by Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Lt. Heather Slyve, who rescued at least one TSA agent who was wounded in the attack.

Real estate heir Robert Durst appeared in court on Tuesday to face two felony charges tacked on to his original arrest on a Los Angeles murder warrant on Saturday.

On this day, 200 years ago, General Andrew Jackson and a ragtag assortment of American soldiers, militia, pirates, and volunteers successfully defended the City of New Orleans against the British Army.