What's making news in New Orleans?
| By Chad Calder FIFTH WAVE: New COVID-19 cases have more than doubled in the last week, and what experts predict will be yet another wave of infections has New Orleanians scrambling in advance of the holidays. This time, it appears the highly infectious omicron variant is driving the surge, and we all know what that looks like: business closures and a long lines for tests. REPEAT OFFENDERS: Nearly two-thirds of Louisiana's habitual lifers were sentenced in Caddo, Orleans, St. Tammany or Jefferson parishes. And just who are these menaces to society? One of them sold $20 worth of pot to an informant. You can read more about this here, and we've got a panel discussion you can watch today as well. SLURS SPUR REVIEW: District Attorney Jason Williams said his office will conduct a "full review" of cases handled by Lafayette city court Judge Michelle Odinet while she worked in New Orleans as a prosecutor in the 1990s. Odinet is currently suspended following the emergence of a video in which she used racist slurs and referred to a Black burglar as a cockroach. Thank you for joining us this morning on The Front Page. CC |
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| Coronavirus cases are once again surging in Louisiana, in what health experts say is likely the beginning of a fifth wave of the disease fu… Read more |
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| On a busy holiday weekend, staff at restaurants across the city were working the phones, calling people who had reservations to dine. They … Read more |
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| Canceled holiday parties, shuttered restaurants, postponed NFL games. It's beginning to look a lot like another COVID Christmas as the infe… Read more |
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| This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletter, or follow The Marshall Project on Facebook or Twitter. Read more |
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| Louisiana sentences people to life without parole at one of the highest rates in the nation. A team of reporters from The Times-Picayune | The Advocate and The Marshall Project collaborated to investigate why and found that more than half of the people serving life in Louisiana were convicted of second-degree murder. Read more |
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| Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams announced Monday that his civil rights division will launch a review of all cases that embattled Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet prosecuted while she worked in New Orleans in the mid-1990’s. Read more |
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