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April 3, 2020 at 5:45 pm

New Orleans calliope tribute for jazz great Ellis Marsalis

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A tourist riverboat calliope blasted hymn and gospel tunes across New Orleans' French Quarter on Friday as a tribute to the...

Entertainment

April 3, 2020 at 2:04 pm

New Orleans calliope tribute for jazz great Ellis Marsalis VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A tourist riverboat calliope blasted hymn and gospel tunes across New Orleans' French Quarter on Friday as a tribute to the...

Entertainment

CORRECTS MAYOR’S LAST NAME TO CANTRELL INSTEAD OF CAMPBELL – FILE – This April 28, 2019, file photo, shows Ellis Marsalis during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Wednesday, April 1, 2020, that Marsalis has died. He was 85. (AP Photo/Sophia Germer, File) NYSB372 NYSB372

April 1, 2020 at 6:50 pm

Jazz great Ellis Marsalis Jr. dead at 85; fought coronavirus

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ellis Marsalis Jr., the jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan, died late Wednesday from pneumonia brought...

Nation & World

March 18, 2020 at 2:31 pm

Oil and gas lease bidding in Gulf of Mexico drops anew

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bidding on federal oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday was the lowest since gulf-wide sales began...

Business

March 12, 2020 at 9:58 am

Only on AP: Pepper-sprayed inmates reach $177K settlement

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A private prison in northeast Louisiana must pay a total of $177,500 to five former inmates of that prison whose faces...

March 11, 2020 at 1:48 pm

Report: Land for $9.4B complex could hold 7 slave cemeteries VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Land bought for a Taiwan company's planned $9.4 billion plastics complex may hold as many as seven slave cemeteries — five...

February 24, 2020 at 10:26 pm

New Orleans celebrates end of Mardi Gras touched by tragedy VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dressed in sequined costumes, grooving to the rhythm of marching bands and clutching at strands of shiny beads, people in New...

Entertainment

February 20, 2020 at 3:54 pm

Higher red snapper ‘target’ for charter boats now permanent

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After Gulf of Mexico charter boat captains stayed within federal limits for red snapper, regulators are making permanent a rule that...

Business

February 14, 2020 at 11:53 am

Groups challenge Louisiana permits for plastics plant

Environmental and community groups that want to keep a Taiwanese company's plastics complex out of south Louisiana went to court Friday to challenge state air...

Business

February 12, 2020 at 3:19 pm

$130M in BP spill money to help reconnect big swamp to river

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana will get $130 million in BP oil spill money to link its second-largest coastal swamp back up to the Mississippi...