Meg Gatto

2 weeks ago | kalb.com | Meg Gatto

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - It is a fate most people could never imagine: Locked up for decades for a crime you didn’t commit. Now, some state lawmakers - supported by Louisiana’s Attorney General - want to abolish a fund that helps to rebuild the lives of freed exonerated prisoners. Reginald Adams remembers his first moments of freedom. “The day I had a chance to actually hug my mother, without being behind closed doors,” Adams recalled. Thirty-four years had been taken from them.

2 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Meg Gatto

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - It’s a fate most people could never imagine: Locked up for decades for a crime you didn’t commit. Now, some state lawmakers -- supported by Louisiana’s Attorney General -- want to abolish a fund that helps to rebuild the lives of freed exonerated prisoners. Reginald Adams remembers his first moments of freedom. “The day I had a chance to actually hug my mother, without being behind closed doors,” Adams recalled. Thirty-four years had been taken from them.

2 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Meg Gatto

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Ochsner Health broke ground Tuesday (April 29) on a new 343,000-square-foot facility for its Children’s Hospital, made possible by a major donation from philanthropist Gayle Benson. The expansion, located on the hospital’s sprawling Jefferson Highway campus, is being described as transformational for pediatric care in the region.

2 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Meg Gatto

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The job of protecting and serving the public comes with high expectations. But body camera footage obtained by FOX 8 shows some New Orleans police officers falling short - and still keeping their jobs. On Dec. 20, 2021, NOPD officers discovered a man passed out behind the wheel of his running vehicle on Decatur Street in the French Quarter. The man was unresponsive, had vomited, and was parked on the sidewalk. As their body cameras rolled, they called EMS to tend to him.

1 month ago | fox8live.com | Meg Gatto

MANDEVILLE, La. (WVUE) - Three former St. Tammany Parish Public Schools employees face charges for allegedly striking and injuring a Mandeville student with disabilities. The boy’s parents say they’re furious they had to file a lawsuit to get the full details about what they believe happened to their son. When 13-year-old Zander Ferris steps off the school bus, it’s straight into the arms of his parents. They say Zander was diagnosed with blindness as a baby.