The amphibious warship USS New Orleans is now in port after suffering a 12-hour-long blaze off the coast of Japan.

The 11 counts specific to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell stem from an investigation into her alleged affair with former police officer Jeffrey Vappie.

A brass band and second-line members briefly parade in front of Gallier Hall in protest of a proposed NOPD policy that the City Council ultimately quashed. Video: Chelsea Brasted/Axios The Valley of Silent Men will hit New Orleans' streets on Sunday afternoon to begin the next second-line season.

Over three months after the Orleans Justice Center jailbreak, Derrick Groves remains at large. Authorities continue the manhunt and offer a $50,000 reward.

New Orleans' battered, 300-year-old history has been marked by fire, pestilence and storm, but Katrina was unprecedented in scope and pain: 1,400 people died; 200,000 homes in Orleans Parish — 80% of the city — flooded; and hundreds of thousands fled or were transported to safe havens across the country, many never to return.

But I have lost a mother, and I have almost lost a city, and I can tell you that the feeling of one is similar to the other. Neither a mother nor a city is perfect, and both are easy to hate. Until, that is,

He says that studying lead levels requires studying the soil itself, and lizards are a great animal to use as a reference point. “The lizards live close to the ground, so they are breathing in dust with lead in it and eating insects that have lead on and in them,” explains Gunderson.