A silhouette of a crucifix and a stained glass window is seen inside a Catholic Church in New Orleans (Image: AP) The Archdiocese of New Orleans has agreed to pay nearly $180 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement announced Wednesday, the latest in a string of settlements by the Catholic Church….
Earlier this month, when New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced that she intended to renege on a $20 million settlement with the Orleans Parish School Board, she said the city couldn’t afford it. The settlement with the school board was brokered last fall by the New Orleans City Council and Cantrell’s own top deputy, Chief…
“This is Steve Tasker, sideline reporter for the Super Bowl 47. If you’re expecting to hear our friend Jim Nantz, it may be a moment before he gets on.” When the audio of Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens suddenly cut out early in the third quarter on Feb. 3,…
A rare and powerful snowstorm has blanketed most of the Gulf Coast in the United States, bringing record-breaking snowfall to regions unaccustomed to extreme winter weather. From Texas to Florida, the storm has disrupted daily life, with some areas experiencing their heaviest snow in over 130 years. Florida saw a historic snowfall with Milton, north…
NEW ORLEANS: A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow, closing highways, grounding nearly all flights and canceling school for millions of students more used to hurricane dismissals than snow days. The storm prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal…
The Islamic State lauded the man who killed 14 people when he rammed a truck into a busy New Orleans street early on New Year’s Day, with the group claiming in a digital newsletter dated Thursday that its online propaganda had inspired the attack. The group said the attacker who ran over pedestrians walking on…
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The FBI is looking into past visits to Egypt and Canada by the suspect in the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people after a truck was rammed into a crowd of revelers, an FBI official told reporters on Sunday. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran aged 42 who had pledged…
NEW ORLEANS: The man responsible for the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day that killed 14 people visited the city twice before and recorded video of the French Quarter with hands-free glasses, an FBI official said Sunday. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Houston, also traveled to Cairo, Egypt, as well as…
The New Orleans attacker had planted remotely operated explosives inside coolers at two nearby locations in the French Quarter just a few hours before driving a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of people celebrating New Year’s Day, US President Joe Biden said. The ISIS-inspired attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, had a “remote detonator” in…