Maddie Kerth

1 week ago | fox8live.com | Maddie Kerth |Parker Boyd

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - How far are you willing to go for the LSU Tigers? For some superfans, the answer is: all the way to Omaha—no matter the price. “I’m just so happy,” said one fan boarding a flight. “So happy to be going to Omaha. So happy to be going to Nebraska. Never thought I’d be saying that ever in my life.”At Louis Armstrong International Airport, Tigers supporters are booking last-minute trips to see LSU face off against Coastal Carolina in the College World Series championship.

2 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Maddie Kerth

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - At the second line to start the 2025 Creole Tomato Festival at New Orleans’ historic French Market, it’s hard to find someone willing to do more for tomatoes than Matt Renatza. “When I was 14, I stole plants out the hothouse from my dad and put them in the field,” the Belle Chasse tomato farmer told Fox 8. “He said, ‘If you’re going to do that, you better start planting all the time.’”From an early age, Renatza says he learned the real life of a farmer.

3 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Maddie Kerth

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A newly local New Orleanian was the top finisher Sunday (June 1) in the 24th annual Run/Walk Through History race through Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery. Owen Skelton, a 23-year-old who recently moved to the city from Mississippi, was the first to cross the finish line of the five-kilometer road race, in just over 16 minutes. How do you convince more than 700 runners to choose the course with more than 100,000 dead people as an audience?

1 month ago | fox8live.com | Maddie Kerth

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - For over a week now, New Orleans drivers moving around Carrolton Avenue are wondering, “Why is the garbage truck still there?”The truck’s driver crashed into a steel support beam while trying to get on I-10 West. Scott Boyle with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) says there’s a good reason crews didn’t pull the truck out right after it crashed last Monday (May 19).

1 month ago | kalb.com | Ken Daley |Maddie Kerth

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Two women accused of assisting Orleans Justice Center jail escapees this week have been arrested, the Louisiana State Police said Wednesday (May 21). Courtnie Harris of New Orleans, 32, and Corvanntay Baptiste of Slidell, 38, each was booked with accessory after the fact to the May 16 escape. Harris is accused of being in contact by phone to assist one of the five fugitives still at large.