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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell speaks at police headquarters, Feb. 2, 2022, in New Orleans. A woman once accused of stalking by Cantrell filed a $1 million-plus federal lawsuit accusing Cantrell, her chief of staff and eight members of the city police department of civil rights violations and defamation on Friday, July 26, 2024. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

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New Orleans' mayor accused her of stalking. Now she's filed a $1 million defamation suit
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Fri,07/26/24-1:50PM , 100 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans woman once accused of stalking by Mayor LaToya Cantrell turned the tables Friday with a $1 million-plus federal lawsuit accusing Cantrell, her chief of staff and eight members of the city poli
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A man walks in front of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Jan. 7, 2015, in New Orleans. The court ruled Wednesday, July 24, 2024, that the method the Federal Communications Commission uses to fund telephone and broadband services for rural and low-income users is unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman, File)

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Appeals judges rule against fund used to provide phone services for rural and low-income people
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Wed,07/24/24-2:48PM , 82 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Calling it a “misbegotten tax,” a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled Wednesday that a method the Federal Communications Commission uses to fund telephone service for rural and low-income people and broadband services for schools and libraries is unconstitutional.
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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell speaks at the police headquarters, Feb. 2, 2022, in New Orleans. Federal prosecutors are accusing a former New Orleans police officer, who was indicted Friday, July 19, 2024, of hiding a forbidden romantic relationship with Mayor Cantrell and filing false payroll records claiming he was on duty as one of her bodyguards. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

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Police bodyguard accused of fraud and false statements about alleged affair with mayor
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Mon,07/22/24-6:14PM , 122 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal prosecutors are accusing a former New Orleans police officer of hiding a romantic relationship with Mayor LaToya Cantrell and filing false payroll records claiming he was on duty as one of her bodyguards during hours they spent together on trips abroad, at restaurants and at a city-owned
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Emergency personnel arrive to evacuate people at a mass shelter, Sept. 2, 2021, in Independence, La. Bob Glynn Dean Jr., who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021, pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday, July 22, 2024, and was sentenced to three years of probation. (Chris Granger/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

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No prison for a nursing home owner who sent 800 residents to ride out a hurricane in squalor
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Mon,07/22/24-3:17PM , 95 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three years of
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