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A suite of Mickalene Thomas's lush, glittering photos and paintings of women went on display at the Newcomb Art Museum on the Tulane University campus on Wednesday evening . Thomas's career is especially resonant on the eve of Inauguration Day 2017, because her art had a role in the inauguration of the current president.
In this Aug. 16, 2006, photo, Rapper Corey Miller, who once went by the stage name of C-Murder, arrives at the premier of Spike Lee's new documentary on Katrina “When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts” in New Orleans.
I find high-profile, white-collar sentencing cases to be among the most interesting and dynamic because they often require a judge to balance and calibrate competing punishment theories and goals. Because most white-collar offenders are not violent and oftenhad a successful/productive life before getting into trouble, the need for severe punishment to incapacitate or specifically deter an offender from committing future crimesis often diminished.
Nearly a month after the GOP won the presidential election, Vice President-elect Mike Pence is back on the campaign trail helping Republicans try to increase its U.S. Senate majority. The Indiana governor appeared in New Orleans on Saturday with Republican Senate candidate John Kennedy to urge GOP voters to turn out for the last day of early voting prior to Louisiana's Dec. 10 runoff between Kennedy and Democrat Foster Campbell.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Friday that none of the cuts he has proposed to erase the deficit are what he wants to do, but he believes they're necessary given the ongoing financial crisis. Edwards was to sign an executive order Friday that would trigger hundreds of millions in cuts, but he granted a request by a legislative panel to delay the planned cuts for 30 days in hopes that higher education can be spared.
Arthur Morrell, New Orleans chief elections officer, holds his traditional pre-election news conference in his office Monday inside the Tulane Avenue courthouse. , Arthur Morrell, the city's chief elections officer, said Monday.
The U.S. Senate Debate for Louisiana gets underway at Georges Auditorium including David Duke, a convicted felon and Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, attorney Caroline Fayard, and U.S. Rep. John Fleming at Dillard University in New Orleans, La. Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016.
New Orleans native and Interim Democratic National Convention Chair Donna Brazile finishes her speech at the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. 55th Annual Session at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, La. Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016.
Police were called out to the Family Dollar in the 3800 block of Choctaw Drive around 7 p.m. Wednesday. "I would like to make a motion that instead of $1,400 or $1,450 we give the teachers $2,500," said council member Wayne Williams.
Former longtime North Shore District Attorney Walter Reed approaches the federal courthouse in New Orleans on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, for a hearing on his request for an acquittal or new trial. Reed was convicted in May on numerous corruption charges.
The principle of what's good for the goose ought to be good for the gander appears lost on Capitol Hill. If the anti-immigrant agitation over so-called "sanctuary cities" for immigrants who are here illegally has any basis in fact, the concern should be grounded in policy, not politics.
Arlene Barnum, of Oklahoma, with a group calling themselves Confederate Veterans Lives Matter, holds a Confederate flag in front of City Hall in New Orleans, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015. City Hall became the scene of competing opinions over the removal of prominent Confederate monuments along some of New Orleans' busiest thoroughfares.
Advocate staff photo by ELIOT KAMENITZ -- John Bel Edwards get a hug from his wife, Donna, after at the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans, La. Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015, after defeating David Vitter to become governor of Louisiana.
The juxtaposition of drumbeats and chants of "No justice, no peace" filled the air on Saturday afternoon as hundreds marched toward Jackson Square in New Orleans in an act of protest against four monuments honoring Civil War era figures . Take 'Em Down NOLA arrived at Jackson Square at 2:17 p.m., where a horse-mounted New Orleans Police patrol blocked access to the Andrew Jackson monument.
LSU is shopping around for new health care deals in north Louisiana, hoping to move some of its doctors-in-training to more hospitals in the region because the university's relationship with the operator of its own hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe continues to deteriorate. The Associated Press reports that LSU President F. King Alexander calls the university's arrangement to have the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana run the two north Louisiana hospitals "a three-and-a-half-year thorn in our side.
The Latest on the investigation into Friday night's crash of an airplane into Lake Pontchartrain at New Orleans : Authorities say a small plane that crashed in Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans had been chartered by a couple taking an aerial tour of the city. The plane crashed as it neared New Orleans Lakefront Airport.
U.S. Coast Guard officials say one person has been rescued and crews are searching for two others after a small plane crashed into a lake near a New Orleans airport. Multiple media reports say Coast Guard personnel responded to the scene Saturday night after the aircraft crashed in the vicinity of the Seabrook Bridge near New Orleans Lakefront Airport.
U.S. Coast Guard officials say one person has been rescued and crews are searching for two others after a small plane crashed into a lake near a New Orleans airport. Multiple media reports say Coast Guard personnel responded to the scene Saturday night after the aircraft crashed in the vicinity of the Seabrook Bridge near New Orleans Lakefront Airport.
Two federal agencies say they won't try to block the city of New Orleans' attempt to remove a monument to an 1874 white supremacist revolt against Louisiana's federally-backed post-Civil War government.
Louisiana politicians are squabbling over who gets credit for a federal grant designed to alleviate Baton Rouge traffic on Interstate 10 over the Mississippi River Bridge by moving the Washington Street exit. , at old McKinley High School with U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond by his side, telling the world Louisiana will be getting between $20 million and $25 million in FASTLANE grant money to move the dreaded Washington Street exit.