Zion Parsons and Chloe Lemay were celebrating the new year on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Chance placed them on the same block. Where they stood dealt them very different fates.
Through bitter grief, family and friends gathered Friday to remember Ni’Kyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, who died in the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans.
By the time Shamsud-Din Jabbar swerved onto Bourbon Street at 3:17 a.m. on New Year’s Day, his plan seemed to have been taking shape for months. But for those who narrowly escaped his deadly three-block rampage,
The victims, though, were just following legions who have flocked to Bourbon Street over the years with nary a care. Paralleling the Mississippi River and bisecting the original grid laid out by the city’s French colonizers in 1722, the street originally ...
Longtime Mississippi lawyer and Coast community leader Hugh Keating formally entered the race for Gulfport mayor. While many people are struggling to put food on the table, a church in Hancock ...
"Our community has experienced an unimaginable tragedy and our collective hearts are broken," said Gayle Benson, who owns the New Orleans Saints.
The coroner's office said all the victims died from blunt force injuries. The suspect in the attack, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was fatally shot in a firefight with police.
Plaintiffs argue that the timing of construction left vulnerable gaps in security, effectively creating a “soft target” that attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar exploited when he drove a rented pickup truck through a crowded Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more.
A freshman at the University of Mississippi was among those injured in the terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. Parker Vidrine, 18, was with a group of friends on Bourbon Street when he was hit by a truck driven by Shamsud-Din Jabbar,
Shock and grief have given way to finger-pointing over whether additional security could have stopped — or mitigated — the recent attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans.
The mask was torn off the face of “The City That Care Forgot,” New Orleans. It was so called in 1910 to assure visitors they would be free from worries
Pass Christian Main Street Foundation Director Robin Rafferty speaks with WXXV’s Dave Elliott about the city’s newest designation as a Main Street Community by the Mississippi Main Street Association.