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A group of protesters circled outside New Orleans Police Department headquarters Friday afternoon (Feb. 12), calling for the arrest and trial of two Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputies who shot and killed a 22-year-old man during a nearly five-mile-long police chase Monday night that started in Terrytown and ended across the river in Central City. Sheriff's Office officials said two deputies, Kenneth Bonura and Henry DeJean, opened fire on Eric Harris in fear for their lives after Harris threw his car in reverse near Simon Bolivar Avenue and Phillip Street. But protesters, as well as Harris' girlfriend – who was in...

New Orleans police are investigating a fight that broke out Wednesday (May 27) evening on a Central City street. Officer Juan Barnes said police were called to the 2400 block of Magnolia Street around 7:30 p.m.

An officer with the Housing Authority of New Orleans was fatally shot in his patrol car while working a security detail at the construction site of the Guste Homes public housing complex, according to New Orleans police officials Sunday (May 24). Authorities have not yet identified the male officer, who had been with the HANO department for about two years, HANO Police Chief Robert Anderson said. "It is truly a sad day for our department," Anderson said. "We've never had an on-duty death in the department's history."HANO police found the officer's body about 7:10 a.m. Sunday in his patrol car,...

In 1994, a 9-year-old boy living in New Orleans' Central City neighborhood wrote a letter to President Bill Clinton, saying that he did not feel safe: "I want you to stop the killing in the city. People is dead and I think that somebody might kill me." Two days later, on Mother's Day, that boy, James Darby, was killed in a drive-by shooting. Darby's words rang out as loudly as ever on Friday evening in the neighborhood where he lived and died, when Mayor Mitch Landrieu told Darby's story to a large crowd in front of the home where another...

Next target of smoking ban: casinos By ED SEALOVER THE GAZETTE March 27, 2007 - 12:29AM DENVER - Colorado casinos, one of the last bastions for smokers since a statewide ban went into effect in 2006, might be losing their exemption after a year’s reprieve. State senators voted 22-12 Monday in favor of a measure banning smoking at casinos in Cripple Creek, Central City and Black Hawk. Casinos were granted an exemption from the ban in last year’s Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act, along with cigar bars, businesses of three employees or less that aren’t open to the public and...