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The 610 Stompers perform in the Krewe of Thoth parade on Magazine Street in 2020. No parades will be gracing Magazine Street in the Mardi Gras season that begins Wednesday, but the Uptown corridor will still have a place of honor during Carnival 2021. Magazine Street will be the only place to purchase merchandise for the Krewe of Red Beans‘ “Hire a Mardi Gras Artist” project, the krewe announced. “Hire a Mardi Gras Artist” is an effort to get the laid-off Mardi Gras artists back to work while brightening the season for all New Orleanians. As an extension of this initiative, the krew...

It's public, there are cameras in the area, and if something bad were to happen i know of at least two or three people that are there a lot that would probably come to my rescue. >> is that the kind of thing you have to do when you sell a weapon? >> that's the thing i do when i sell a weapon because i've got entirely too much to lose. i have a family, i have a job that, you know -- i love them both. i did not want to jeopardize those. we met at the station. i showed him the rifle in the back end of my car, and then i filled out a bill of sale, because i wanted to make sure that this was tracka...

I.d.? >> i saw his photo i.d. >> reporter: and how carefully did you, you know, store the information? >> i'm kind of a pack rat by nature. it's my -- my teacher nature, you don't throw anything away. so all of the e-mail conversations that he and i had, i kept. all the text messages between he and i, i kept. and i still had pictures that i had originally posted on armslist, those were still on my home computer. and as he was leaving, again, to cover myself, i wrote down his license plate number. >> you are a careful guy. >> i am. >> was he a nice fellow? >> for the very limited interaction we...

Knew he was who he said he was, and that he was at least 21. >> reporter: who did he say he was? >> he said his name was andy wegener, and that was the e-mail address that he had contacted me from, was andy wegener something-or-other at gmail.com. >> reporter: where'd you meet? >> i work part-time at a gas station. it's public, there are cameras in the area and if something bad were to happen, i know of at least two or three people that are in the area a lot that would probably come to my rescue. >> is that the kind of thing you have to do when you sell a weapon? >> that's the thing i do when ...

From, was andy wegener something-or-other at gmail.com. >> reporter: where'd you meet? >> i work part-time at a gas station. it's public, there are cameras in the area and if something bad were to happen, i know of at least two or three people that are in the area a lot that would probably come to my rescue. >> is that the kind of thing you have to do when you sell a weapon? >> that's the thing i do when i sell a weapon because i've got entirely too much to lose. i have a family, i have a job that, you know -- i love them both. i did not want to jeopardize those. we met at the station. i showe...