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Medical Assistant Micah Dubose, left, and Sandra Castro, right vaccinate a squirming 3rd grader Hailey McDonald, 8 at KIPP Believe Charter School in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Students in New Orleans will be required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus as of Feb. 1 as the city becomes one of the first big districts in the country to implement a vaccine requirement to go to school. (AP Photo/Ted Jackson)

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Mandate to vaccinate New Orleans schoolchildren kicking in
By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press
Mon,01/31/22-2:39PM , 112 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As school systems across the U.S. struggle to keep classrooms open amid the pandemic, New Orleans is set to become the nation's first major district to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for children 5 and up, though state regulations will allow parents to opt out easily.
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Sandra Jaffe, far left, who along with her husband, Allan, owned and managed Preservation Hall since the early 1960s, watches trombonist Freddie Lonzo sing to the crowd gathered June 10, 2021, in New Orleans, for the reopening of the venue since the coronavirus lockdown. Sandra Jaffe who introduced countless people to jazz through the intimate French Quarter venue over six decades, has died on Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, her son Ben Jaffe, creative director of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, said on the hall's Facebook page. She was 83, news outlets reported. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The Advocate via AP)

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Sandra Jaffe, co-founder of Preservation Hall, dies
By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press
Wed,12/29/21-12:39PM , 177 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sandra Jaffe, who co-founded Preservation Hall in New Orleans, introducing countless people to jazz through the intimate French Quarter venue over six decades, has died.
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Henry Montgomery, at center of juvenile life debate, is free
By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press
Tue,11/16/21-11:24PM , 134 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana inmate whose Supreme Court case was instrumental in extending the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people sentenced to life in prison without the opportunity for parole when they were juveniles was freed on parole Wednesday after spending nearly six decades behind bars.
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Inmate who was key to juvenile life debate is up for parole
By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press
Tue,11/16/21-12:03AM , 138 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In recent years, hundreds of people once destined to spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of crimes as juveniles have gone free after Supreme Court decisions ruling that young people are capable of change and should be given a second chance.
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