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Sheriff-Elect Michelle Woodfork said she doesn't know yet how much OPSO's budget will be cut. She may need to hire 40 additional deputies.

A Lafourche Parish woman is accusing the Golden Meadow mayor and police chief of lying to obtain a warrant to arrest her.

Golden Meadow Town Hall on Thursday, August 14, 2025. (Photo by Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune)

The city’s 2026 budget doesn’t fund a Moreno promise to 100 hire new maintenance workers.

of 4 Despite Mayor-elect Helena Moreno's campaign promises to beef up city services , her proposed $1.6 billion budget for the City of New

The proposed City of New Orleans budget doesn’t include enough money for the sheriff’s payroll, Hutson says. And it has no money for Phase III.

Edna Karr's Tre Garrison (8) runs the ball as St. Augustine's Armon Allen (28) defends during the Division I select state championship game at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025.

The Orleans Parish district attorney, Jason Williams, took on a private client who is facing a criminal investigation in Williams's district. The matter was raised in a complaint to legal disciplinary officials

Attorney Ben Crump says an autopsy shows 1-year-old Kohen Wiley was struck by gunfire that came from beside the car where the toddler was a passenger during a police confrontation with the boy's mother and one of her friends outside a Walmart in Senatobia.

Nearly a month after police in Mississippi shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley outside Walmart in Senatobia, department officials released a brief report Friday about the shoplifting call that led to the fatal encounter.