| By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor CRIME TIME: With public pressure building to curtail violent crime in New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson are scheduled Wednesday to explain what they plan to do about it. Their news conference is set two weeks after City Council President Helena Moreno asked Ferguson: “What’s the plan that you can show us and show the public? What is the 90-day plan, the 90-day strategy? We would love to see those from you. Really, as soon as possible.” Meanwhile, a 45-year-old woman had her SUV stolen while she was filling it with gasoline at Costco - and was run over by the thief. And police booked a man with possession of a stolen car that was used in an alarming volley of gunshots that wounded two women at South Claiborne and Napolen avenues.
ANCHOR AWEIGH: Karen Swenson has spent 30 years in local news, most of it at WWL television, where she won five Emmy Awards and six Edward R. Murrow regional awards and is now the evening news anchor. That's long enough, says Swenson, who plans to retire just before Mardi Gras and revive a side business she started some time ago. “It’s time,” she said Tuesday. “I want to do these other things while I still can. I’m trying to teach my daughter that if you have a dream, go for it.”
MINORITY REPORT: One day after interviewing for the New Orleans Saints' head coaching job, former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores on Tuesday sued the NFL and three teams - not the Saints - over what he called racist hiring practices for aspiring coaches. Flores is a Black man, as is Aaron Glenn, the Detroit Lions' defensive coordinator and former Saints secondary coach who plans to interview with the Saints on Wednesday.
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