A New Orleans man, Jakiya Muller, was sentenced to 35 years in state prison after pleading guilty to first-degree rape in connection with two separate sexual assaults that occurred days apart in 2022. The sentence, handed down on October 30, 2025, carries no possibility of probation, parole, or suspension. The case involved two women who […]
Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Rogers Williams has issued a public call urging additional survivors and witnesses to come forward in connection with the ongoing investigation of Lucien W. Jacob, also known as “Billy Jacob,” “Little B Jacob,” or “Lou Jacob.” Standing with leaders from the Kenner Police Department, the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), […]
October 22nd at 4 PM families are rallying at city hall on the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality to demand accountability from the NOPD’s Public Integrity Bureau for failing to hold its officers accountable. The families supported by The New Orleans Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and others are demanding that the […]
A New Orleans man has pled guilty to the 2022 sexual assault and kidnapping of a Tulane University student, a case solved through swift police collaboration and decisive forensic breakthroughs. On Monday, September 29, 2025, Minh R. Nguyen appeared in Section L of Criminal District Court before Judge Angel Harris and pled guilty to two […]
Today marks four days of an ongoing hunger strike led by nineteen individuals detained at the new Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Camp J at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (“Angola”). Their demands are: Medical care, mental health care, and necessary prescription medications Basic necessities such as toilet paper, sufficient hygiene products, and ample clean water […]
As Mayor LaToya Cantrell heads to federal court for arraignment, the charging document against her reads like a roadmap of overlapping theories of public-corruption: a fraud scheme built on taxpayer-funded travel and on-duty hours for her then, police bodyguard, and an obstruction campaign that allegedly used disappearing messages, misleading sworn statements, and pressure on subordinates […]
NEW ORLEANS – Sept. 9, 2025 – Survivors of clergy sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of New Orleans are weighing a revised bankruptcy plan that now guarantees at least $230 million for compensation – an increase meant to secure enough “yes” votes to confirm a deal five years after the church sought Chapter 11 protection. […]
The indictment of Mayor LaToya Cantrell and her alleged lover, former NOPD Executive Security Jeffrey Vappie is the kind of national news Newman Orleans somehow cannot avoid. A city built on a swamp by pirates, slaves, prostitutes, free people of color and greedy Europeans, where illicit sexual relationships were the norm, is unfortunately still known […]
When Susan Hutson took the oath on May 2, 2022, New Orleans marked a milestone of electing the city’s first woman and first Black woman as sheriff in Louisiana. Hutson has prided herself as being a reformer whose career in oversight (from the LAPD to New Orleans’ independent police monitor) promised a clean break with […]
New Orleans community organizer Toni Jones is fighting back against what she calls a targeted attack on First Amendment rights after being found guilty of two charges stemming from a 2024 pro-Palestine protest near Tulane University. On Tuesday, June 24 at 8:30 a.m., Jones will hold a press conference outside Municipal Court to announce her […]
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