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A suspected ISIS member was arrested in connection with the Jan. 1 attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 people and injured at least 57 others, Iraq's judiciary said Sunday. Following a request from the U.S. for assistance in the investigation, Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council said the individual “was arrested for inciting the Jan. 2025 truck attack in the United States," according to Al Arabiya News, a Saudi state-owned international Arabic news channel. The unnamed suspect is “a member of the external operations office of the Daesh terrorist organization" — the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group known ISIS....

Miranda Devine @mirandadevine Hunter Biden will be in the Philadelphia Eagles box with his stepmother Jill Biden at the Super Bowl today. What a cheek. 12:13 PM · Feb 9, 2025

Senior law enforcement officials say the explosive devices left in New Orleans contained a rare compound not seen before in a U.S. terror attack. NBC News' Tom Winter reports.

Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth Anne Kirkpatrick, New Orleans elderly, female police chief ran over 2 people in her car in August.

The man who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans' French Quarter, killing 15, has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, a US citizen. The Ford electric vehicle was owned by another 42-year-old man from Houston, Texas. The truck had reportedly been rented out on Turo, and police are in contact with the owner who listed it for rent. The gunman was killed by police after he slammed a truck into pedestrians celebrating the New Year, exited the vehicle, and started firing. The vehicle was reportedly carrying an ISIS flag and a chest...

Nader Mirfiq @Nader723 This is how the driver got on Bourbon Street. This is horrible. Prayers up to all the victims

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk1 🚨BREAKING: Authorities confirm that 4 or 5 other suspects involved in the New Orleans attack in addition to Shamsud Din-Jabbar. 11:48 AM · Jan 1, 2025

The New Orleans Advocate reports: "NBC News anchor Brian Williams, who apologized on the air Wednesday night for lying about an experience covering the Iraq War, is now facing scrutiny over his gripping accounts of Hurricane Katrina, the disaster that burnished his nightly news bona fides almost a decade ago. Williams’ account of seeing a body float by in the French Quarter — which remained largely dry — and even a claim of catching dysentery from drinking Katrina floodwaters have raised eyebrows among bloggers and elsewhere since he took it on the chin this week over a claim that he...

Sunday morning, during the part of my church service where members of the congregation ask for prayers for others, a member stood and asked that we pray for two members of the Unitarian Universalist Association who'd been badly hurt in the French Quarter the night before. You may have seen the surveillance video of the two men - Tim Byrne and James Curran - walking on Bienville Street and being attacked from behind by four suspects and then robbed. Byrne was knocked unconscious with a blow to the head and was reported as having a critically serious brain injury.The UUA,...

NEW ORLEANS — All suspects have been arrested in connection to the robbery and beating of two tourists from Boston in the French Quarter. Nicholas Polgowski and Rashaad Piper were booked Wednesday morning into the Orleans Parish jail. This comes as the two other suspects, Dejuan Paul and Joshua Simmons, are currently being held without bail. The four men are being charged with second degree robbery in connection to the beating of two Boston tourists Saturday night on Bienville Street. One of the victims is still listed in critical condition. Police said the attack was reported before 9 p.m. in...

About seven minutes lapsed from when an eyewitness saw Jean Jacques Michell in the French Quarter ransacking a New Orleans Police Department car and the time three officers had Michell on the ground in handcuffs, his arrest warrant said. Michell, 35, was booked early Wednesday (July 20) on charges of simple burglary of a vehicle and simple criminal damage to property after he smashed the windshield of a marked cop car parked and apparently removed its computer system, his warrant said. The warrant, sworn by NOPD Det. Justin Almeida, said Almeida and Det. Mark Schmidt were on patrol when a...

A French Quarter cigar bar's battle over state and city liquor permits has struck a major chord among New Orleans policy makers and civic leaders. Councilwoman Nadine Ramsey wants to create a new category in the zoning code -- called a "tobacco retail business" -- to keep La Habana Hemingway Cigar Bar on Toulouse Street in operation. But critics say that doing so could undermine the impending citywide smoking ban by exempting more drinking establishments from it and also impact the Quarter's long-standing prohibition on new cocktail lounges in commercial zones.

The former general manager of the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans, where embattled "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams reportedly roomed during Hurricane Katrina, said Sunday (Feb. 8) that neither mass flooding nor floating human remains were near the hotel after the levees broke. Her statement raises questions about Williams' stated Katrina experiences and could add to a pool of public skepticism regarding his tale. Williams recounted his time reporting on Katrina in a 2006 interview with Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "When you look out of your hotel room window in the French Quarter and watch a man float by face down,...

A man, 32, was sexually assaulted Friday in the French Quarter, New Orleans police said Saturday.

Reeshawn Arnold has been arrested in connection with the Tuesday beating of French Quarter musician Doug Potter, according to a Thursday morning update from the New Orleans Police Department. A warrant has been issued for Terrell Belvin for his involvement in the beating, NOPD said. NOPD said Arnold, 20, and Belvin, 30, were identified through tips from Crimestoppers, plus another anonymous source. Arnold already was in custody on an unrelated charge and was rebooked for second-degree battery, NOPD said. Jail records show he was booked at 11:36 p.m. Tuesday and charged with misrepresenting his name, age and address. The second...

New Orleans police on Tuesday night (Jan. 21) released a sketch of a suspect they say helped beat a man unconscious after an altercation outside a French Quarter bar. The man is wanted on a charge of second-degree battery in a beating that occurred on Tuesday a little after midnight in front of Last Call Bar and Grill at 800 Conti St., NOPD spokesman Officer Frank B. Robertson III said. Police say the man helped another man pummel the victim, before fleeing. The victim suffered severe injuries and was taken to a local hospital, Robertson said.

NEW ORLEANS -- A well-known New Orleans musician is hospitalized and unconscious after being jumped in the French Quarter. Doug Potter's family and friends believe he may have been a target of the "knock out" game. "Always here when we needed him. Really nice man," said Chef Rick Tyler of Cafe Beignet.

Michelle Obama loves the trappings of her position as First Lady. She has power, privilege, and tremendous perks, without any real responsibilities. She also has a taxpayer funded ticket to travel the world. In 2011, Mrs. Obama’s travel expenses exceeded $10 million as she enjoyed 42 days of vacation bliss, according to the Mail Online. For vacation junkie Michelle Obama, there are plenty more exotic locales to visit. While some of her favorite destinations include Vail, Spain, Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard, she has been “scouting out some more places.” In an interview with Charlie Rose of CBS News, the First...

A shooting on Bourbon, at St. Louis Street, in the French Quarter about 12:30 a.m. injured seven people and killed a 25-year-old man. All of the victims were caught in the crossfire when two people began to shoot at each other in a crowd of costumed revelers celebrating Halloween, police said.

Melvin Clay, 37, and Helaina Amrine, 21, were arrested Thursday night in connection to the stabbing death of 23-year-old Marine Ryan Lekosky in October.New Orleans Police Department spokeswoman officer Shereese Harper reported that the two were arrested by police shortly after 9 p.m. at the intersection of Dauphine Street and Bienville street, just one block from where the fatal stabbing occurred.According to Harper, Clay was charged with second degree murder, while Amrine, his girlfriend, was charged with accessory after the fact.After leaving the Marine Ball with his wife around 3:30 a.m. on October 31, Lekosky was stabbed several times when...