Armed Store Employees And Patrons Stop Gunman After 2 Were Fatally Shot
KAYLEE GREENLEE Reporter Customers and employees at a gun shop opened fire on a gunman who killed two people and injured others in New Orleans, the Associated Press reported Saturday. Two people were fatally shot by a gunman at the Jefferson Gun Outlet where employees and patrons returned fire and killed the shooter, according to the AP. […]
Social worker sues for the opportunity to help her community
A New Orleans social worker filed a federal lawsuit today to challenge a state law that prevents her from helping families with special needs children. Ursula Newell-Davis has devoted her twenty-year career to counseling youths with mental health needs and cognitive disabilities. As a social worker and as a mother to her own special needs son, she has seen that children with disabilities and their families need support, especially those who come from poorer backgrounds. Because many of these […]
The Big Easy thorough the Lens: Pictorial of New Orleans
Local resident, William Hicks, takes us to the Big Easy with all its flamboyant fun. From brides dancing through the streets to Southern belles out for a stroll, colorful row houses and that paddle-wheeler, it’s pure down home style. But to the first images, before Robert E. Lee lead the Confederate soldiers against those Yankee […]
The New Orleans Killings What To Do About Black-on-Black Violence?
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson When the FBI released its latest annual crime report showing that violent crime is on the upswing in many big cities, a bevy of law enforcement, officials, and criminologists prayed that the report was just an aberrant blip on the crime chart. There was good reason to hope that: murder rates […]
