Not even a month out of school, one Dillard University alumna has already left her mark on the university with donations totaling $7,000.
Ashlee Yates, the 2008-2009 Miss Dillard University, said she always knew she wanted to give back.
“In this economy, the last thing people have on their minds is investing, but as the saying [...]

After nearly four years of being displaced because of Hurricane Katrina, the Southeast Louisiana chapter of the Red Cross has returned home.

A project that seeks to curb the city’s energy appetite is one step closer to helping residents return to the Lower Ninth Ward.

Mayor Ray Nagin’s plan to proceed with the redevelopment of the Iberville Housing Development, an effort he said would “transform” public housing, marks a kind of final chapter for yet another housing project devastated by Katrina.

“Voluntourism”, a combination of vacation and volunteer work, is a welcome boost in rebuilding cities like New Orleans.

The clock reads 9:45 p.m. as Lt. Menzies pulls up outside the NOPD headquarters and walks toward a monument dedicated to his fallen colleagues. It’s at this wall, with its mirror-like material, where visitors see their silhouettes, a reminder of life’s fragility.

I have a confession. I’ve only had a coffee drink once in my entire life- a frappuccino at Starbucks, to be exact. Well, I think it was a frappuccino. So today when Geoffrey Cooper had the misfortune of having to make a pot after finishing the last cup of Maxwell House coffee, I decided to watch.

An eighth-grade Larose-Cut Off Middle School student who crept through the school’s back door with a loaded gun, fired on a teacher and then turned the gun on himself, has succumbed to his injuries and died Tuesday, police said.