Her name is Linda Frickey: A white grandmother in New Orleans attacked in broad daylight by four black teens, and murdered after losing her arm during a violent carjacking. At 1:30pm on a Monday afternoon, four black teens are seen walking down a residential street on a nearby security camera scoping out their next victim, 73-year-old Linda Frickey. Linda was sitting in her car just outside of her... 

New Orleans is about to be hit by “an extreme rainfall event” that is likely to be the worst disaster that the city has seen since Hurricane Katrina. It is being projected that Tropical Storm Barry could officially become a hurricane before it makes landfall on Saturday, but in this case the wind speed is not really that important. Instead, the massive amount of rain that this immense storm will... 

A Charleston Black Lives Matter leader who made headlines for attempting to steal a Confederate flag died Tuesday after being shot in New Orleans, his family said. He was probably shot by a black man and that would really be funny but there is no information about it yet. Muhiyyidin Moye, 32, of Charleston, was shot in the leg while riding his bike around 1 a.m. in the Louisiana city, his niece told... 

For $10 a month, residents of New Orleans suburb can hook home cameras up to law enforcement surveillance grid just like in the USSR… at least this is optional and not mandatory, for now… Police in Louisiana are urging residents to add surveillance camera security systems to their homes and then to hand over control of those systems to law enforcement, an effort they claim will help make... 

A young Australian tourist who was celebrating the end of her studies with her best friend in the United States has been shot in the face during a New Orleans gunfight. The 21-year-old Amy Matthews was shot along with 10 other bystanders when two gunmen began firing shots on Sunday. A bullet blasted through Amy’s right cheek and exited through her top lip, causing massive injuries to her mouth. “It... 

Naegleria fowleri lifecycle stages A deadly brain amoeba that has killed two children this year has been found in a drinking water supply, a first in the US, authorities said Monday. The heat-loving Naegleria fowleri has been found in the water supply system of St. Bernard Parish, southeast of New Orleans, according to tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The N. fowleri parasite... 

A new study carried out by the researchers in England has released the name of 20 cities which are at the highest risk of damaging floods. Scientists at the University of Southampton listed the cities that face the worst damage from floods and giant storms. The report illustrates that nearly all of them are in Asia and North America, five of them are in the United States, according to Live Science. The... 

It is an overlooked danger in oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico’s fragile ecosystem. The oil emanating from the seafloor contains about 40 percent methane, compared with about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits, said John Kessler, a Texas A&M University oceanographer who is studying...