 | By DREW BROACH | Staff writer |
THEIR OWN PLAN: Ratcheting up pressure on elected officials, almost 180 business executives, civic organizations and political activists have banded together to craft their own plan to combat New Orleans’ unrelenting surge of violent crime, which they say will send the metro area into a vicious cycle of decline if it isn't urgently capped. Hours later, however, a toddler was shot in the leg outside the Costco warehouse store off South Carrollton Avenue.
ALL WET: Get out your hip waders. South Louisiana could be in for 15 inches of rain in the next five days.
FINGERS CROSSED: Lil Wayne’s Lil WeezyAna Fest plans to return to its original home at Champions Square on Aug. 27, and one hopes it doesn’t repeat the near-disaster that befell the 2019 edition outside Lakefront Arena.
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