Metro New Orleans Crime News | NOLA.com (2024)

The body of a man who disappeared after the natural gas pipeline on which he was working exploded was recovered Sunday morning near South Pass, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

A man was carjacked after completing a delivery in the Gentilly neighborhood early Sunday morning, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office detectives investigating the death of a man found fatally shot in a Metairie field have arrested a suspect in the case.

A car traveling on Interstate 10 in New Orleans lost control before it veered off the roadway and into a tree, killing two men Sunday morning, according to police.

New Orleans police have arrested a man they say wounded two innocent bystanders in a gunfight outside of a Mid-City bar last month.

A man died Saturday afternoon after he was shot at an apartment complex in Harvey, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

New Orleans police have arrested a man they say gunned down another man on Chef Menteur Highway last week.

A Harahan home went up in flames Friday afternoon, breaking a water main and reducing water pressure in an area subdivision, according to the Harahan Police Department.

A 37-year-old Metairie woman is dead, and State Police troopers are searching for the driver who hit her before fleeing the scene Thursday night.

A man wanted for the murder of another man in St. Roch has been arrested in Dallas, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

Two years after a 20-year-old music engineer was shot and killed when he stepped out of his vehicle at a Brother's Food Mart in Harvey, his accused killer has pleaded guilty in the case, accor…

A New Orleans woman facing a manslaughter charge is accused of abusing her boyfriend's mentally disabled brother, starving and beating him for months, before allowing him to die from an untrea…

A Cut Off married couple jailed last month on counts of rape, child p*rnography, weapons and drug charges now face nearly 100 counts of the sexual abuse of animals.

A suspect is wanted in connection with a St. Roch shooting that left one man dead on the neutral ground, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

A man died this week after he was severely injured in a fatal traffic crash in Gretna late last month, according to Louisiana State Police.

In what authorities called "a landmark case for Tangipahoa Parish," a man was arrested and booked with murder in connection with a Hammond man's fatal fentanyl overdose, the Hammond Police Dep…

On the two-year anniversary of one of New Orleans’ largest, most diverse civic action groups' creation, Nola Coalition members and criminal justice stakeholders convened at a Treme career cent…

A driver was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 12 in Slidell on Wednesday morning, State Police said.

The Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office has identified the man who was found fatally shot in a Metairie field early Wednesday morning.

A man was shot and killed in Metairie early Wednesday morning, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office investigators are trying to identify a woman whose remains were found alongside a set of railroad tracks in Jefferson Parish.

Around 400 Department of Homeland Security personnel will deploy to New Orleans, and Louisiana State Police anticipate their deployment will similar to Mardi Gras.

A vehicle caught fire on the Crescent City Connection Tuesday evening, authorities say.

A man died in a traffic crash on the West Bank Tuesday afternoon, according to Louisiana State Police.

A car crashed into a Kenner canal Tuesday afternoon, according to the Kenner Police Department.

The New Orleans Police Department has identified a suspect in the theft of a package of cremated human remains from the lobby of a Bywater neighborhood apartment building on July 18. A decorat…

A suspect was arrested Monday in connection with an overnight French Quarter shooting that left a 26-year-old man dead this weekend, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

Two men who were killed in overnight shootings in the French Quarter and the Lower Ninth Ward this weekend were identified Tuesday morning by the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office.