Kaitlin Rust
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Kaitlin Rust joined the Fox 8 News team in November 2020 as a reporter.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Kaitlin is enjoying her trek around the United States.
She's back down in the Bayou State after spending almost three years in Louisville, Kentucky reporting for Fox 8’s sister station WAVE 3.
Kaitlin started her career in Lake Charles after graduating from Rider University with a major in Digital Media and a minor in Political Science.
Obsessed with animals and music, Kaitlin can often be found spending time with her rabbit and two dogs or out dancing at a show.
She's excited to be in New Orleans and would love to tell your stories!
Feel free to email her with any ideas or just to say hello.
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Four people were wounded when gunfire broke out at a high school’s graduation on Southeastern Louisiana University’s campus Thurs., May 19.
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Entergy Louisiana customers are going to see higher utility bills at the end of the month.
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State Police say a woman texting and driving on Memorial Day cost a sanitation worker his leg when she crashed into the back of his garbage truck.
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The 31-foot twin inboard/outboard motorboat carried six people at the time it flipped and began sinking.
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Louisiana Right to Life, along with some other prominent religious organizations, says they will not support House Bill 813 that is heading to the House floor this Thursday.
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Police say that the suspect took the victim around 8 a.m. in the area of North Oak Street and West Dakota Street and the incident was reported to campus police at 10:52 a.m.
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Witnesses say they waited 30 minutes for NOPD to show up while two women assaulted staff and patrons of a Lower Garden District Bar Saturday night.
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It was the last place she ever thought she would have to fight off carjackers; stuck in slow-rolling lunchtime traffic on I-10 near the Superdome.
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The LSU freshman was on her way home for the weekend when she was killed in a crash on I-12 in Covington, Friday.
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Although he still has to replace his window, he came up with a deterrent that chased away the would-be thief Friday night.
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Some FOX 8 viewers report a hold of $175 after filling up at Exxon stations.
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Daly has been going back and forth with the permitting department for months, to no avail. He can’t get special event permits.
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Photos and videos emerged over the weekend showing New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and guests partying with no masks on during the Mayor’s Ball.
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Only 81-percent of the City’s budgeted positions are currently filled. There are 270 NOPD vacancies, 54 at the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center, EMS needs to fill 28 positions and there are 26 mechanics needed to work on all of our emergency vehicles.
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Not only are all NOLA Public School students required to be fully vaccinated, everyone 5 years and up is required to have both shots to prove vaccination status, or a negative test when entering indoor spaces like bars and restaurants.
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It’s an eye-opener for some neighbors, but for many, this has been a fear for a while.
The violent imagery may be disturbing to some, but it’s sparking a conversation of safety in a neighborhood where many people walk during off hours.
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It’s obvious this year’s Carnival season is going to be very different, but a lot of businesses along the parade route are trying to figure out just how different.
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A Slidell man believes the dismembered woman police found in an Upper 9th Ward freezer Tuesday is his missing wife.
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Brian Robert Lee has been canvassing the area, digging for any information he can find on the five people who took his little buddy, Thunder.
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Krewes like Phunny Phorty Phellows, Uptown, and the Société Des Champs Elysée in the Marigny, usually take to the street cars to kick it all off on Twelfth Night, but this year no Krewe has gone untouched by several challenges facing the city.
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The victim, Jonshel Alexander, 22, was around 11 years old when she was cast in Benh Zeitlin’s low-budget yet visually stunning full-length motion picture filmed in Montegut and areas around Terrebonne Parish.
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It happened Sunday night, just after 7:30 in the 2200 block of Burgundy, but the family fears in the midst of all the violence this city experienced over the weekend, his case may be forgotten.
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It’s a massive project trying to get Grand Isle back up and running, but there is hope as some power and water return to small parts of the island.
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Close to 10,000 volunteers from other states like Texas, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia have come in over the past five weekends for The Church of Jesus of Latter Day Saints Helping Hands operation.
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A lot of people in St. Charles Parish were looking for tarps. So many that the Destrehan pod site was out and we had to go over to Luling on the Westbank to find them.
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Leaders in New Orleans say they’re looking at ways to make independent senior living facilities safer after they say five people died from negligence during Ida’s aftermath.
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The Saints will be back in the Dome for the first time this year, but some season ticket holders are already looking for refunds.
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As New Orleans enacts the new requirement for proof of vaccination, phony cards are now added to the list of things law enforcement must seize.
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“This is something that we were worried about when I was in nursing school is that in 2020 there will be a big nursing shortage,” Ecoee Rooney, the President of the Louisiana Nursing Association said.
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Hospitalizations have shot up in Louisiana to their highest level since February: 844 people with 64 on ventilators.
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An Uber driver was robbed at gunpoint by his own passenger Monday night next to Pontchartrain Park, and it briefly cost the driver his job.
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LSU Health researchers have made a discovery that could prevent COVID-19 and protect your lungs.
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The dent in new car inventory is now trickling down to used car stock.
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A local Uber driver says his own passengers stole his car as he tried to drop them off over the weekend.
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Officials the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) has confirmed the state’s first two identified cases of the SARS-CoV-2 virus known as the Brazil P.1 variant.
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“18 weeks old, he was an unmistakable puppy, rubbery, bouncy, lanky.”
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“The 73 neighborhoods in New Orleans are something special and unique to the city.”
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“We thought with the vaccine rollout, with the way the numbers have been trending, this could be our first possibility to do it.”
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"We want to have this festival as bad as everybody wants to come out to the festival."
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After the historic move to impeach the President for the second time in the House, it’s still unclear exactly what will happen in the Senate.
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The latest push to get more COVID-19 vaccines into arms comes from the CDC, expanding the age limits in order to speed up the nation’s slow rollout.
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The most recent reports show 1,689 patients across the state, 218 of them are on ventilators.
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The fate of Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year’s Eve in New Orleans fell into question after the mayor insisted Lauren Daigle should not be included in the production, critical of her recent performance at a mask-less praise and worship event.
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It's unclear who threw the cat out of the car, but if caught, they could be facing felony charges.
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The attack was reported at the intersection of 38th Street and Grand Avenue around 12 p.m. Thursday, according to LMPD spokesman Lamont Washington.