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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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.