| By Chad Calder | Staff writer
PARADING AROUND: Mardi Gras festivities continued this weekend and we've got all the coverage here. Parades Sunday included the Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale, the Krewe of Carrollton, the Krewe of King Arthur and, of course, the Mystic Krewe of Barkus.
COSTCO KILLING: Another day, another dispute settled with gunfire. Just after 7 p.m. Sunday, one man fatally shot another man in the parking lot outside of Costco.
BIGGER PIECE, SMALLER POT: A demographic shift away from having kids has reached kindergarten, and the decline is making schools more expensive to operate. But there's a wrinkle: a larger percentage of them are attending public school, and education reporter Marie Fazio explains what that means in New Orleans.
SALARY CAP: March 16 starts the new year in the NFL, and that means salary cap maneuvers. New Orleans in the worst shape of all 32 NFL teams, needing to get rid of about $76 million in 2022 salaries in order to get under the projected cap. But Luke Johnson reports its not quite as bad as it might seem.
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