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Seattle Seahawks defensive end Aldon Smith is wanted for allegedly committing second-degree battery. An arrest warrant was issued after the NFL player reportedly choked a victim unconscious on Saturday during a confrontation inside a coffee shop in Chalmette, Louisiana, ESPN reported, citing St. Bernard Parish District Attorney Perry Nicosia. Smith has been suspended multiple times by the NFL for drug-related offenses and personal misconduct violations. He was out of the league from 2016 to 2019 and reinstated in 2020. After a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys, he joined the Seahawks Thursday.

A search for a 14-year-old who authorities said jumped into the Mississippi River was called off over the weekend, leaving his family and others who knew him desperate to recover his body and questioning how a chase of a stolen vehicle ended in a boy's death. Ja'sean Williams was identified by family members as the teen who they presume has died after he went into the river early Thursday (March 8). The St. Bernard Sheriff's Office said Ja'sean jumped into the river near the Chalmette Ferry Landing, after police chased him and another boy in a stolen car. "Something went...

A World Bank arbitration tribunal on Thursday ordered Venezuela to pay Exxon Mobil Corp around $1.6 billion to compensate for the 2007 nationalization of its oil projects in the country. The amount is far below the up to $10 billion that Exxon had originally sought and the $6 billion at which the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) capped the case, excluding a tax claim. "The Tribunal has found that the expropriation was conducted in accordance with due process, that it was not carried out contrary to undertakings given to the claimants in this respect and...

Chalmette woman wins gutting lottery, finds missing wedding band CHALMETTE, La. When Susan Howard's name was called for St. Bernard Parish's first house-gutting lottery, she squealed in excitement -- even though the only helpers in evidence at the time were two women ages 46 and 54. Later, she said when she heard her name it made her feel as if she had just won the Powerball's multimillion dollar jackpot. The house-gutting lottery was organized by officials in St. Bernard Parish, where 14-thousand commercial and 27-thousand houses, townhouses and apartment buildings flooded. Bad weather stalled last week's start. The opening was...

YSCLOSKEY, La. -- His wife safely settled in a donated house in Tennessee, Ricky Robin, a Cajun-speaking native of this historic low country, will in a few days point his 56-foot shrimp trawler the Lil' Rick toward the Gulf of Mexico, make a wide right turn west and head for parts unknown. A shrimper has to make a living, and there's no living here now.

Emergency response personnel faced grueling tasks across St. Bernard Parish on Wednesday, as the receding waters showed the full impact of Hurricane Katrina. Clean up crews labored to skim off a thick layer of crude oil, spilled from a tank at the Murphy Oil refinery, that soiled east Chalmette homes as far west as Paris Road. All the while, rescue teams tended to dozens of calls from residents seeking a way out — many of them people who turned down rescuers just days ago but are now running out of water and food or just had enough of the stench...

City of Vancouver Search Help        CITY OF VANCOUVER     About Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue USAR contact info Vancouver Fire & Rescue Services How you can help Public Comments     Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue Vancouver's Urban Search and Rescue Team is currently in Louisiana to assist in the search and rescue efforts in the areas of the state ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. The team was deployed on August 31 and is working with the Louisiana State Troopers and the U.S. National Guard. Senior team members will be calling in with reports on the situation and...