A three-alarm fire on North Johson street Saturday night lit up the sky and consumed half a block.
Deputy Lloyd Dupuy is pulled up by a giant flag whipped by high winds as Hurricane Opal approaches the Gulf Coast.
A relative reacts to learning the victim of a homicide is a family member.
A graveyard succumbs to floodwaters from Hurricane Gustav in Houma, LA.
Mark Brown and Erica Centurion embrace in front of the burned out apartment they lived in on Prytania Street. The house and three cars burned on Prytania Street at Constantinople in the early morning hours Thursday, November 6, 2014 after an apparent fire bombing.
A boat travels down Cane River in Louisiana.
A man pedals his bike down Canal street as seen from the Interstate 10 overpass. The late afternoon sun throws much of the street in shadow.
Mourners wail as Soulja Slim's casket in placed in a hearse on Washington Avenue next to the Magnolia housing project where Slim grew up. Rapper James Tapp, known as Soulja Slim and Magnolia Slim, was murdered last week. His funeral featured brass band, horse drawn hearse and hundreds of mourners who wore tee-shirts, buttons and camouflage in his honor..
A naval cannon fires along the American lines Saturday during the commemoration of the Battle of New Orleans at Chalmette Battlefield.
Hong Song holds a container of adipose tissue, developed at Tulane University by the doctoral candidate. The research was sponsored by the Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation.
A tanker truck burns on I-10 near I-510 Tuesday.
Lee Horvitz walks past the piece "Big Self-Portrait" by artist Chuck Close at a press preview for the new exhibit "Lifelike" Friday at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Tibetan Buddhist monks descend an escalator at the Morial Convention Center. The monks chanted Tuesday, May 14, 2013 in an event to highlight the Dalai Lama's visit to the city this week. The monk will also construct a sand mandala, or picture, in advance of the holy man's visit.
Jerome Coleman, 30, of 7610 Adventure Ave., chases down a man who he shot at the intersection of St. Bernard Avenue and Claiborne. He was booked with attempted murder, police said after turning himself in.
Hurricane Katrina
Lower Ninth Ward, August 31, 2005.
John Rainey, John Rainey, Jr and Courtney Davis help Terry Fox, second from left, transport her kids and those of a family member down flooded South Broad street Monday.
Canal Street under water after the levees broke in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The mantle over the Robinson household in the ninth ward on Burgundy street. There was little to save from the house that took over six feet of water from Hurricane Katrina. Residents return to the ninth ward to retrieve items in the heavily damaged neighborhood.
It was a busy day at Louis Armstrong International Airport at the legion of sports fans who descended on the city for the Super Bowl departed for home Monday
Mayor Mitch Landrieu took time out from a playground ribbon cutting to retie one of cheerleader Kerrau Hymes hair ribbons which came untied while she did a cheer routine.
Shadows fall on the facade of Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar at St. Philip and Bourbon Streets in the French Quarter Wednesday, October 14, 2015. The building is considered one of the oldest in the quarter, having first been built in the city's colonial era.
Mitch Landrieu, City Councilmembers, City Officials and Judges, and FEMA broke ground on the New Orleans Juvenile Justice Center at the corner of Encampment Street and Imperial Drive in the St. Bernard Area
Cameron Wiltz, 15, dances as the KIPP McDonogh 15 Middle School band performs at a school rally Friday,.
Isaac Miller pedals down Paris Avenue in Gentilly Thursday morning as the snow falls steadily.
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
A shrimp boat drags skimmers through the oil slick in the Gulf Of Mexico Thursday, May 6, 2010,
Oil covers a beach across the bridge from Grand Isle at Camindad Bay Thursday, May 20, 2010
A Hermit Crab navigates the oil covered surf on the beach at Grand Isle, LA.
A pelican sits in the grass on an oil-stained island near Grand Isle Tuesday.
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Beads left over from from carnival hang from a tree on St. Charles Avenue as the streetcar passes. Bead trees can be found on every parade route from uptown, to mid-city to Metairie Wednesday.
