Missy Wilkinson
Digital Reporter| The New Orleans Advocate at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Reporter at The Times-Picayune | @NOLAnews covering crime and cops. Tips: [email protected], (504) 209-2710
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5 days ago |
nola.com | Missy Wilkinson
The Louisiana Department of Health on Saturday reported the greater New Orleans area's first confirmed case of measles this year. Once nearly eradicated and preventable by vaccines, the highly contagious virus has raised public health alarms as a nationwide outbreak reached 800 cases as of Friday. The New Orleans case is in an unvaccinated adult from Region 1, which includes Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard Parish.
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5 days ago |
nola.com | Missy Wilkinson
Wearing a sports watch, a hydration pack and a baseball cap that read “Embrace the Suck,” Brian Marelo queued up with 18,200 fellow racers waiting for the starting gun to kick off the 47th Crescent City Classic 10K on Saturday morning in downtown New Orleans. “I’m not nervous,” the 15-year-old Hahnville High School student said.
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5 days ago |
theadvocate.com | Missy Wilkinson
Thirty-one people were arrested this week across Louisiana during an operation by FBI New Orleans and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including three people connected to a Venezuelan gang, the FBI said Friday. Directed by executive order and the U.S. Attorney General, the arrests took place in Shreveport, Lafayette, New Iberia, St. Mary Parish, Crowley, Covington, Gretna, Harvey and Kenner between April 14 and 18, the FBI said.
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6 days ago |
nola.com | Missy Wilkinson
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6 days ago |
nola.com | Missy Wilkinson
A man accused of murdering his parents at their Amite home and fleeing to Los Angeles has been extradited to Tangipahoa Parish, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said. Joshua Brocato, 34, was booked Thursday on two counts of first-degree murder and one count each of cultivating marijuana, distributing hallucinogenic plants and possession of weapons while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance. Brocato had a lab, authorities alleged.
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Side note, this happened in my neighborhood. https://t.co/B1YCtwYpRE
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