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Martha Carr

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Managing Editor, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate

 New Orleans, LA
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Recall campaign fails to get enough signatures to force vote on Mayor LaToya Cantrell nola.com/news/politics/new-o… via @nolanews

Recall campaign fails to get enough signatures to force vote on Mayor LaToya Cantrell

The Mayor LaToya Cantrell recall campaign fell thousands of signatures short of forcing a vote on the New Orleans leader's future

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LaToya Cantrell recall lawsuit nears deal that would drop goal by 5,000 signatures, source says nola.com/news/politics/latoy… via @nolanews
LaToya Cantrell recall campaign reaches deal that would drop goal by 5,000 signatures

LaToya Cantrell recall campaign reaches deal that would drop goal by 5,000 signatures

In a victory for recall organizers, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin on Wednesday agreed to slash the number of signatures needed to force a vote on Mayor LaToya Cantrell's

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NOLA.com@NOLAnews10 Feb 2023
The #paradecam is back TONIGHT. We've got more camera angles to catch the action, plus lots of great hosts to take you behind the scenes. Tune in at 6 p.m. to see Oshun, Cleopatra and Alla. ⤵️ nola.com/entertainment_life/…
Rewatch: Oshun, Cleopatra and Alla: Schedule, routes for Friday parades

Rewatch: Oshun, Cleopatra and Alla: Schedule, routes for Friday parades

Carnival's parading season kicks into high gear Friday night, as the krewes of Oshun, Cleopatra and Alla make their way along the Uptown route.

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BREAKING: 4 family members dead in apparent murder-suicide at Harvey home, JPSO says nola.com/news/crime_police/4… via @nolanews
4 family members dead in apparent murder-suicide at Harvey home, JPSO says

4 family members dead in apparent murder-suicide at Harvey home, JPSO says

It's the second murder-suicide reported in Jefferson Parish in less than 24 hours.

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75-year-old from Missouri beaten to death in his Avenue Plaza hotel room on St. Charles Avenue nola.com/news/crime_police/n… via @nolanews
75-year-old from Missouri beaten to death in his Avenue Plaza hotel room on St. Charles Avenue

75-year-old from Missouri beaten to death in his Avenue Plaza hotel room on St. Charles Avenue

A 75-year-old man traveling to New Orleans with his wife was beaten to death in his hotel room, police say.

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3 Coursey bank workers hospitalized after flyers were left there, Baton Rouge officials say theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/… via @theadvocatebr
3 Coursey bank workers hospitalized after flyers were left there, Baton Rouge officials say

3 Coursey bank workers hospitalized after flyers were left there, Baton Rouge officials say

Three workers at the Investar Bank on Coursey Boulevard took themselves to area hospitals Monday morning after coming in contact with flyers that were left in a night dropbox at

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Plane from New Orleans crashes in Wisconsin with 56 shelter dogs onboard nola.com/news/article_cc0eae… via @nolanews
Plane from New Orleans crashes in Wisconsin with 56 shelter dogs onboard

Plane from New Orleans crashes in Wisconsin with 56 shelter dogs onboard

The plane went down on the Western Lakes Golf Club in the Waukesha County community.

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#UVA football players Lavel Davis Jr. and D'Sean Perry were two of the victims in last night's shooting on campus. richmond.com/news/state-and-…
Humble and hard working, Virginia wide receiver Lavel Davis Jr. was striving for greatness

Humble and hard working, Virginia wide receiver Lavel Davis Jr. was striving for greatness

Davis’s father, Lavel Davis Sr. in a Facebook post, wrote simply, “Lord please help me.”

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Alvin Kamara's court date continued until next year, trial date set for March 1 nola.com/sports/saints/artic… via @nolanews
Alvin Kamara's court date continued until next year, trial date set for March 1

Alvin Kamara's court date continued until next year, trial date set for March 1

Alvin Kamara finally has a trial date set stemming from his arrest this February in Las Vegas — and it will not occur until after this season is complete.

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Seven fires set near historically Black college in Jackson, Miss.; arson suspected nola.com/news/article_e0f8f7… via @nolanews
Seven fires set near historically Black college in Jackson, Miss.; arson suspected

Seven fires set near historically Black college in Jackson, Miss.; arson suspected

Authorities in Mississippi's capital city are on the hunt for a suspected arsonist who set several fires on and near the campus of a public historically Black college. News outlets

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Election-day bomb threat closes Kenner Discovery polling place; Voters sent to Audubon Elementary nola.com/news/crime_police/a… via @nolanews

Election Day bomb threat closes Kenner polling place; voters sent to Audubon Elementary

Voters who usually cast their ballots at Kenner Discovey School will now be sent to Audubon Elementary less than two miles away after a bomb threat, officials said.

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Our Voter Portal website and Geaux Vote mobile app technical issues have been resolved. To find your polling place or check your sample ballot, visit voterportal.sos.la.gov, use the free Geaux Vote mobile app, or call our election hotline at 800-883-2805.
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Then and now

Then and now

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Hubig’s Pies delays return, but new pies are coming. See latest on timing, price, shipping nola.com/entertainment_life/… via @nolanews
Hubig’s Pies delays return, but new pies are coming. See latest on timing, price, shipping

Hubig’s Pies delays return, but new pies are coming. See latest on timing, price, shipping

The Saints have a Monday Night Football appearance this evening, but for many in New Orleans the big game was trying to find a Hubig’s Pie, and it was a

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GO DHS! Photos: Standing-room only crowd watches Dominican and Mt. Carmel battle it out on the volleyball court nola.com/multimedia/photos/c… via @nolanews
Photos: Standing-room only crowd watches Dominican and Mt. Carmel battle it out on the volleyball...

Photos: Standing-room only crowd watches Dominican and Mt. Carmel battle it out on the volleyball...

Read more: Dominican avenges volleyball loss to Mt. Carmel earlier in the season

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Vinny Mosca, former Harahan mayor, longtime defense attorney, dies at 74 nola.com/news/politics/artic… via @nolanews
Vinny Mosca, former Harahan mayor, longtime defense attorney, dies at 74

Vinny Mosca, former Harahan mayor, longtime defense attorney, dies at 74

Vinny Mosca, a Harahan politician for 20 years and criminal defense attorney whose clients included Mafia bosses and brothel owners, died of congestive heart failure at his home. He was

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Saints RB Alvin Kamara sued for $10 million over alleged Las Vegas beating nola.com/news/courts/article… via @nolanews

Saints RB Alvin Kamara sued for $10 million over alleged Las Vegas beating

New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara was sued Friday by the man Kamara and three others are accused of assaulting in February outside of a Las Vegas nightclub during

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Just terrifying... Going big on Halloween. Giant skeletons, werewolves and witches super charge holiday decorations nola.com/news/article_481d5c… via @nolanews
New Orleans goes big on Halloween: Giant skeletons, witches supercharge decorations

New Orleans goes big on Halloween: Giant skeletons, witches supercharge decorations

Their eyeballs twitch nervously, and some of them talk if you get close, much to the dismay of dogs and small children.

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New Orleans Mardi Gras season parade routes to remain shortened in 2023 nola.com/entertainment_life/… via @nolanews
New Orleans Mardi Gras season parade routes to remain shortened in 2023

New Orleans Mardi Gras season parade routes to remain shortened in 2023

After months of uncertainty over whether New Orleans parade routes would return to normal for the 2023 Mardi Gras season, the decision is in: The shortened routes of 2022 will

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LCMC's deals and acquisitions: What do they own, and how much did it cost? nola.com/news/healthcare_hos… via @nolanews
LCMC's deals and acquisitions: What do they own, and how much did it cost?

LCMC's deals and acquisitions: What do they own, and how much did it cost?

Louisiana Children’s Medical Center opened in 1955 as a 53-bed hospital during the polio epidemic. At the time, it was known as the Crippled Children’s Hospital. In 1975, LCMC was

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