Rick Rojas

2 weeks ago | virginislandsdailynews.com | Rick Rojas

ATLANTA — Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, entered the race for governor of Georgia on Tuesday, becoming the highest-profile Democrat in an election that will test the durability of Georgia’s relatively new status as a swing state. Bottoms has immediately set her sights on President Donald Trump, who won Georgia in 2024 but has had a strained history with the state, including with Gov. Brian Kemp and some of the state’s other top Republicans.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Rick Rojas

She became the highest-profile Democrat to announce her candidacy in an election that will be a crucial test of her party's ambitions in Georgia. Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, entered the race for governor of Georgia on Tuesday, becoming the highest-profile Democrat in an election that will test the durability of Georgia's relatively new status as a swing state.

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Rick Rojas

ATLANTA — The first of the escaped inmates was chased through the French Quarter, not even 2 miles from the New Orleans city jail. He was caught several hours after he and nine other inmates had fled the jail through a hole in a cell wall. The second was tracked down not long afterward, through a call to a tip line. A third was found on the other side of the city, arrested at the end of the first day following their brazen escape.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Rick Rojas

The manhunt for seven men, including some accused of violent crimes, has alarmed the city and brought new attention to New Orleans's troubled jail. The first of the escaped inmates was chased through the French Quarter, not even two miles from the New Orleans city jail. He was caught several hours after he and nine other inmates had fled the jail through a hole in a cell wall. The second was tracked down not long after, through a call to a tip line.

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Rick Rojas |Richard Fausset

"This is like a reward from God," a local parishioner said, as researchers unearthed more details about the lives of Leo XIV's ancestors in the heart of the city's Afro-Caribbean culture. One day in June 1900, a census taker visited the New Orleans home of Joseph and Louise Martinez, Pope Leo XIV's grandparents. They lived on North Prieur Street, just north of the French Quarter, a neighborhood considered the cradle of Louisiana's Creole people of color. Joseph N.