A tarp-covered clearing in an otherwise overgrown area of City Park has attracted the attention of three different teams of police dogs searching for a teacher who has been missing for more than a month, but all investigators have been able to find under the earth is discarded cooking oil, officials said Friday. Continue reading »
635 South Lopez (photo via Preservation Resource Center)
The Neighborhood Conservation District Committee voted Monday to demolish a property at 635 South Lopez. Continue reading »
Federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents say it will take up to two weeks to determine what the explosives were made of, or whether any fingerprints or other evidence is recoverable that could lead to a suspect or motive for placing them in a truck left in a Canal Street bank parking lot since Friday and discovered Monday, according to a report by Tania Dall of our partners at WWL-TV:
A proposal for a gas station with alcohol sales at Tulane Avenue and Carrollton Avenue was withdrawn Wednesday night, a day before it was to appear before the City Council with some opposition, officials said Thursday morning.
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Robert Morris
Over the last two years, as Uptown Messenger has grown, readers from other parts of New Orleans often ask me when we’re going to expand into their neighborhoods — with those calls coming most frequently from Mid-City.
Today, I’m happy to announce that we are doing just that as I introduce MidCityMessenger.com, which will cover Mid-City crime, local government, business, schools, neighborhood groups and events. Continue reading »
A 25-year-old man was wounded in a Sunday afternoon shooting on South Cortez, and a 24-year-old man was shot less than an hour later about two blocks away on South Pierce, authorities said. Continue reading »
A 20-year-old man was shot to death inside an abandoned house in the 2500 block of Orleans Avenue, police said. Continue reading »