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This 2012 image released by Ballin PR shows Big Freedia, whose real name is Freddie Ross, performing at The Mezzanine in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ballin PR, Beto Lopez )

Singer, dancer Big Freedia to star in TV show

Stacey Plaisance, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The singer and dancer known as Big Freedia is taking his hypersexual, booty-shaking moves from the streets of New Orleans to cable television with a reality show in the Fuse network...
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The vehicle that belonged to missing 26-year-old Terrilyn Monette has been found. (Photo courtesy of Black and Missing Foundation)

Mother of missing New Orleans teacher on 'emotional rollercoaster'

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT - The mother of missing New Orleans teacher Terrilyn Monette received news on Saturday that the vehicle that belonged to Monette was found in a bayou and speaks to theGrio...
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Terrilyn Monette, 26 (Courtesy NBC LA)

Missing Louisiana teacher's car found; body inside

Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Authorities pulled a missing teacher's car from a New Orleans bayou Saturday and police said there was a decomposed body inside...
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Mother's Day Shooting

New Orleans' love affair with guns, in 'black and white'

Trymaine Lee
NBC NEWS - For Louisiana, the stakes could not be higher: it has the worst gun murder rate in the nation, and the highest the rate of children killed with guns...
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New Orleans suspect

Second arrest in Mother's Day parade shooting

Kevin McGill, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two brothers with a history of drug arrests and suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a neighborhood Mother's Day parade...
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Akein Scott. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

20 charges filed in Mother's Day shooting

Kevin McGill, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The suspect in a Mother's Day parade shooting that wounded 19 people faces 20 charges.
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New Orleans suspect

New Orleans mass shooting suspect ID'd

Chevel Johnson, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police late Monday identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting of about 20 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, saying several people had identified him as the gunman captured by surveillance camera videos...
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New Orleans shooting

Video released in Mother's Day shooting

Kevin McGill and Michael Kunzel, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police hope a $10,000 reward and blurry surveillance camera images will lead to arrests in a Mother's Day shooting that wounded 19 people and showed again how far the city has to go to shake a persistent culture of violence that belies the city's festive image...
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Mother's Day Shooting

19 shot at New Orleans Mother's Day parade

Andrew Rafferty, NBC News
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on people marching in a neighborhood Mother's Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19...
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A photo of musician Fats Domino lies in the street next to his home in the heavily damaged Lower Ninth Ward December 24, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Nearly four months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area, the worst-hit parts of New Orleans and surrounding areas are still uninhabitable. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Fats Domino's Katrina-damaged grand piano restored

Stacey Plaisance, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A white Steinway grand piano salvaged from musician Fats Domino's home after Hurricane Katrina has been restored and will be the centerpiece of an exhibit in New Orleans' French Quarter...
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