Page 19 - Gentilly News Today

Orleans Parish Coroner Dwight McKenna had quite a week.

The New Orleans Police Department is set to release body camera footage from an officer shooting that happened in Gentilly last month.

As 911 calls reporting domestic violence continue to surge in the city, while a short-staffed and slow-footed police force marks more of them “gone on arrival” than any time in the past decade, advocates are expanding a pilot program aimed at filling a yawning void in local domestic abuse response.

On a sunny Wednesday morning, customers lined up to place orders at Pontilly Coffee as conversation bubbled across the seating area. Anusica Banks, a Lower 9th Ward native, sat at

Mikeall “Myienie” Caesar founded N’Fungola Sibo to teach West African dance, a mission encouraged by her longtime mentor, Papa Abdoulaye Camara. Originally from Senegal, Camara had moved to New Orleans

A New Orleans City Council member on Monday called on police to investigate a dangerous stunt-driving incident, captured on video, that stopped traffic on Elysian Fields Avenue near Gentilly Boulevard

“Oh Lawd, here we go,” is likely to be the first thing you hear from your iPhone if you install the "Chalmette HeyBrah (English-ish)" voice to your driving directions app.

A New Orleans city councilman is calling for a city and state investigation into illegal stunt driving that was captured on video Saturday night in the city. 

When David LeBoeuf listed his Gentilly house for sale in May, he thought the newly renovated, two-bedroom cottage would move quickly with a price tag of $315,000, or roughly $190