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Category: Top Story

This category showcases the lead coverage readers need to know, offering context, clarity, and insight into issues shaping New Orleans and beyond.

City releases dozens of pages of emails on police use of facial recognition

The emails show that the NOPD and Louisiana State Police have had a formal relationship since at least 2018 that provides the NOPD access facial recognition software.
by Michael Isaac Stein December 14, 2020 Updated December 14, 2020

‘Every single person in that office has to understand the culture shift’: How Jason Williams plans to remake prosecution in New Orleans

The DA-elect lays out his plan for hiring staff and a new Civil Rights Division to be headed by former director of the Innocence Project New Orleans
by Nick Chrastil December 11, 2020 Updated December 11, 2020

With FDA authorization pending, Louisiana expects first shipment of vaccine within days

An advisory panel on Thursday recommended the agency approve an emergency use authorization. Frontline healthcare workers would be the first to be vaccinated.
by Philip Kiefer December 10, 2020 Updated December 18, 2020

NOLA Public Schools COVID-19 cases hold steady at 80, 712 quarantining

The cases are spread across 44 campuses, more than half the city's public schools.
by Marta Jewson December 10, 2020 Updated December 10, 2020

City’s request to stop construction of Phase III jail facility should be denied, federal judge recommends

In scathing report, judge says he has “lost trust” in the city.
by Nick Chrastil December 7, 2020 Updated December 11, 2020

Jason Williams will be next Orleans Parish DA

Williams defeated Keva Landrum in Saturday's election. He has pledged to end the policies of mass incarceration in the city.
by Nick Chrastil December 5, 2020 Updated December 5, 2020

Nearly half of NOLA Public Schools campuses have a COVID-19 case, 839 quarantining

Two schools reported more than 100 people quarantining.
by Marta Jewson December 3, 2020 Updated December 3, 2020

Orleans DA candidates say they will review all old non-unanimous verdicts regardless of upcoming Supreme Court ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could overturn at least 1,500 split jury verdicts in Louisiana. But in Orleans Parish, hundreds convicted by a 10-2 jury may not have to rely on a court ruling, under pledges from Williams, Landrum.
by Nick Chrastil December 2, 2020 Updated May 26, 2022

City accused of misleading the public in campaign for property tax proposal

The Cantrell administration and library officials have come out strong in favor of a package of ballot initiatives that would cut the library budget by 40 percent in favor of housing and economic development. And they have repeatedly made false and misleading statements about the proposal.
by Michael Isaac Stein November 23, 2020 Updated November 24, 2020

COVID-19 cases more than triple in New Orleans schools, 716 quarantining

The district is tracking 54 active cases across 27 schools.
by Marta Jewson November 19, 2020 Updated November 20, 2020

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