The NOPD headquarters was evacuated after live grenades were found inside of a car that was being processed Thursday, according to police....
Michael Deibert | Posted 10.29.2011
The struggle to rebuild New Orleans -- and the debate about what kind of New Orleans that will be -- continues six years on, as the winds and rain of a once-mighty storm grow ever more distant, but never fully disappear.
Jordan Flaherty | Posted 05.25.2011
A US Justice Department investigation of the NOPD found "racial and ethnic profiling and lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) discrimination."
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — Call it the Katrina defense: the idea that police officers' deadly acts in the wake of the hurricane must be judged through the pr...
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A former New Orleans police officer was convicted Thursday of fatally shooting a man in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath and another ...
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — Officers shot an unarmed man in the back, burned his body, then doctored a police report in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Kat...
AP | MARY FOSTER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — Michael Hunter stood quietly as a judge sentenced the former New Orleans Police officer Wednesday to eight years in federal prison...
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A former New Orleans police officer charged with fatally shooting an unarmed man in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath testified Tuesda...
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans police officer was laughing after he burned the body of a man who had been gunned down by police in Hurricane Katrin...
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A former New Orleans police officer on trial for gunning down a man outside a strip mall in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath said aft...
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — The chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina offers no excuse for the actions of five current or former police officers being tried in t...
AP | MARY FOSTER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A former New Orleans police detective who admitted he helped cover up deadly shootings of unarmed residents on a bridge after Hurr...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — The Justice Department says it will not seek the death penalty against four current or former New Orleans police officers charged ...
ProPublica | Sabrina Shankman, Tom Jennings, Brendan McCarthy, Laura Maggi, A.C. Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011
In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters, according to present ...
AP | KEVIN McGILL | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — Federal authorities launched a top-to-bottom review of the troubled New Orleans Police Department on Monday, a probe requested by ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A fourth former New Orleans police officer has pleaded guilty to helping cover up deadly police shootings of unarmed residents aft...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A fourth New Orleans police officer has been charged with helping cover up a deadly police shooting of unarmed civilians in Hurric...
AP | ALAN SAYRE | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — Five current or former New Orleans police officers were charged Friday in the shooting death and burning of a New Orleans man duri...
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A former New Orleans police officer told federal authorities he saw a fellow officer shoot and kick unarmed, wounded civilians in ...
Posted 05.25.2011
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL HUNTER * * * FACTUAL BASIS If this matter were ...
AP | MARY FOSTER and MIKE KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — In Hurricane Katrina's chaotic aftermath, police shot six people – killing two – as they crossed a bridge in search of...
WWLTV.com | Posted 01.13.2012