Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 6:19 AM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
A witness who saw others attempting to resuscitate a 3-year-old girl fatally shot in the French Quarter on Tuesday (April 27) said it was 'the worst thing I've seen in this city.'
Updated: Apr. 25, 2022 at 12:09 AM CDT
|By Amanda Alvarado, Ken Daley, Amanda Roberts and FOX 8 Staff
Rescue crews searched more than 93 miles along the Mississippi River with a combined 55 total hours.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2022 at 9:33 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
A terrifying night turned into a tearful morning as family members began to realize their little ones may not come home.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 11:25 AM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
A family's trip to New Orleans was ruined when a woman was injured in a shooting near their Airbnb.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2022 at 11:24 PM CDT
|By Ken Daley and Amanda Roberts
FEMA is proposing using a 5.74-acre site at 3501 Houma Blvd. in Metairie to place an office and 28 trailers to provide temporary housing for up to 18 months for people still displaced by storm damage from Hurricane Ida last August.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2022 at 11:09 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“It was dragging a lady by the seatbelt outside the car the door had closed on the seatbelt, and she was stuck in it… I got out of my vehicle screaming please stop other neighbors were also screaming,” said Ecker.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2022 at 6:48 AM CDT
|By Ken Daley and Amanda Roberts
A man was fatally shot in the chest inside a Bourbon Street business early Sunday (March 20), New Orleans police said.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2022 at 9:37 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
After months and hundreds of complaints of brown water flowing through their taps, Magnolia Water system told customers to flush their lines at home.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2022 at 10:13 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Owner of the Phoenix Bar, Tracy Deroche remembers getting a frantic call from one of his bartenders while the sun was still up on Lundi Gras.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 10:23 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
“A lot of our fans are very proud of us and they’re they’re proud of the things that we represent. To see that the sound the sound system that brings the music to the streets was missing was a huge shock,” said Brodrecht.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2022 at 10:48 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
A busy Friday evening and Frenchman street was already a-buzz as it’s the official/ unofficial start to the parading season.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2022 at 9:36 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
After a long wait, Louisianans can now bet on their favorite sports teams, scores, and athletes in the palm of their hands.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2022 at 10:54 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Krewe du Vieux leaders weren’t available to talk on camera, but say it’s been a real double whammy: announcing not only their parade route has been modified, but their queen, the city’s health director Dr. Jennifer Avegno says she will no longer ride, but will still reign.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2022 at 10:30 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Since August 2020 when they first opened, COVID has robbed Metairie’s City Bar from hosting any Mardi Gras revelers.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2022 at 9:37 AM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
As New Orleans re-imposes an indoor mask mandate within the city limits, Colby says she’s grateful her bar sits within Jefferson Parish lines, especially with Mardi Gras revenue on the line.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 at 9:16 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Fresh off the holiday break and a stark figure greeted Louisianans and health leaders: more than 30 thousand new Covid cases and more than 1 thousand now in the hospital.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2022 at 9:53 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
With multiple signs and postings at the front door of the High Hat Café, there’s little doubt you’ll have to flash proof of vaccination.
Updated: Dec. 25, 2021 at 10:03 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
The NOPD investigated two separate homicides this Christmas, leaving two men dead. Neighbors and loved ones wish the violence on a holiday like today would stop.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2021 at 11:02 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
New Orleans may have known him as a Saint, but those who knew Glenn Foster best say he was so much more.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2021 at 9:14 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
“We happened to see a helicopter flying low. It was going pretty fast. I didn’t understand it at the time,” said Joseph James Jr.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2021 at 7:12 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
It would require all companies with 100 or more employees to be vaccinated, or employees would need to pay for weekly testing. Landry says he’s keeping the constitution and the people of Louisiana in mind.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2021 at 10:39 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
As investigators start to get to the bottom of why the crowd surge started at the Houston Astroworld Festival, local festival producers and crowd control experts say these findings will be important especially as big events and festivals become more commonplace again.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2021 at 9:34 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
A man suspected of driving a stolen vehicle led Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s deputies on a chase, where deputies had to start shooting, and eventually crashed into a Metairie home.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2021 at 10:07 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“I just thank God we didn’t lose as many lives like Katrina but still damage to your home takes a lot out of you… the house is just a house but it’s home,” said Young.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2021 at 11:36 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
DCFS says they handled 76,515 calls Monday through Friday with upwards of 17,898 calls through Saturday evening.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2021 at 10:47 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
Hurricane Ida added onto the stressors of the pandemic which had fans wondering about their Eric Clapton tickets.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2021 at 9:26 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
After five people died across eight senior living facilities in the city, the city’s health department shut those facilities down saying the conditions were unfit, and evacuated the rest of the residents to state-sponsored shelters.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2021 at 10:32 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
State leaders and doctors are now encouraging another therapeutic treatment, monoclonal antibodies to keep people diagnosed with COVID-19 out of the hospital.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2021 at 7:14 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson and Amanda Roberts
Beginning Aug. 2, the Coast Guard will start to lay out their findings surrounding the Seacor lift boat disaster that capsized in April
Updated: Jul. 21, 2021 at 10:01 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“It is what it is we have to get used to it and like I said for the sake of others and get through this pandemic,” said Rivas.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2021 at 5:46 AM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
She was asked to donate old baby clothes to help a new mother, and the next thing Charise Harper-Taylor knew, she was seeing that woman, Angelyc Seely on the news.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2021 at 3:48 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent and Amanda Roberts
As of Monday morning, 94 bodies have been recovered and identified.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2021 at 9:16 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
Another controversial legislative session came to a close, but Governor John Bel Edwards’ veto of some controversial bills may spur Republican lawmakers to call a special veto override session.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2021 at 9:32 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“This building is incredibly important to New Orleans economy to the hospitality industry and to our residents itself so we want every world-class event that’s looking for a home to consider the superdome in its selection process its good for the city its good for the building it’s good for the team,” said Martindale.
Updated: May. 18, 2021 at 10:00 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“Helping my community the stigma that’s around police brutality against people of color I wanted to be a part of that change,” said Hamilton.
Updated: May. 16, 2021 at 9:00 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
Hurricanes Laura, Delta, and Zeta beat the Louisiana coast in 2020, dotting blue roofs across the gulf coast.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2021 at 10:48 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
Eleven days after the Seacor power lift boat capsized, the Morales family is still holding out hope their loved one will come home
Updated: Apr. 20, 2021 at 9:50 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“Working in chocolate milk if you will where you can maybe see 6 inches or a foot but it’s very difficult to do..."
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 5:54 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts and Jesse Brooks
Eight people remain missing
Updated: Apr. 16, 2021 at 10:28 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
With the majority of the Seacor mariners still missing in the gulf, family members rushed to Port Fourchon, many leaving behind the comforts of home as they wait for any update.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2021 at 9:36 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
For generations, Deirdre Barrow Johnson’s family has made their family restaurant a part of the community, and the community a part of their family.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2021 at 9:59 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“So by this time next year, I’m hoping absolutely we'll be able to celebrate and host events in this city like no one can do, so it’s an exciting time and how far we’ve come, but let me tell you the light's clearly at the end of the tunnel,” said Mayor Latoya Cantrell.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2021 at 10:05 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
“I do love socializing and everything, but at the same time I’m the kind of person who says this is a human decency thing..."
Updated: Mar. 21, 2021 at 10:00 PM CDT
|By Amanda Roberts
Under a beautiful sunny sky, Bourbon street is nearly back to its rambunctious nature and locals and visitors alike chose to take advantage.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2021 at 9:23 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
While more than 100,000 people in Louisiana have received their COVID-19 vaccines, thousands more still patiently wait their turn.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:54 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
Four total teens are injured in three separate shootings over the weekend, including a 14 and 15-year-old injured on Bourbon St.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2021 at 8:53 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
“We’ve had one and a half million deaths from covid in the world. And anybody who comes out and says, avoid this vaccine. That is the mistake,” said Dr. Brobson Lutz.
“It felt like we were in a war,” Eyewitnesses thankful to walk away from Metairie gun store shootout
Updated: Feb. 21, 2021 at 6:47 AM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
They both walked into a concealed carry class without knowing each other, but now, Wanetta Joseph and Tyrone Russell say they’re both survivors
Updated: Feb. 8, 2021 at 10:17 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
The city says a security guard at the G7 event hall pulled a weapon on their code enforcer trying to investigate the place.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2021 at 5:41 PM CST
|By Amanda Roberts
A day after the city shut down four bars for not complying with Covid regulations, some bar owners say the city does not have the full picture.