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It's a good thing Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans had an old abandoned airstrip on its property in 1988. Otherwise, a Boeing 737 from San Salvador might have had no place to land. As The Times-Picayune reported in 1988, TACA Flight 110 lost engine power on its May 24 approach to New Orleans. The National Transportation Safety Board released a transcript of the cockpit voice recording later that year, and it shows the confusion of the pilot and first officer after the flight, en route from San Salvador via Belize, fell to an altitude of about 1,000 feet. The...

An 8-year-old boy was robbed at gunpoint in the Little Woods area of New Orleans East on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 24), the New Orleans Police Department said. The boy was approached by a man who demanded the boy give him his keys, according to a preliminary NOPD report. When the boy refused, the man pulled out a gun and said, "Give me the keys or I will kill you." -snip-A10-year-old boy was robbed at gunpoint by three unknown people at 4:19 p.m. on Saturday in the 3000 block of Bruxelles Street near the intersection of Paris Avenue and Gentilly Boulevard,...