Jesse Brooks
Digital Content Producer
New Orleans, Louisiana
Jesse Brooks is a Digital Content Producer creating content for the web in the New Orleans market.
Brooks previously worked as a reporter for the Hammond Daily Star and newspapers in Amite, Kentwood, and St. Helena Parish. He is an LPA award-winning writer and journalist. He is also a New Orleans based singer-songwriter, comedian, and actor.
The Rolling Stones are working in their Hackney Diamonds Tour into their scheduled Jazz Fest performance and will take the stage in New Orleans on Thursday, May 2.
Speculation has run wild on social media regarding her absence but beyond Mulkey’s comments and Reese’s response, there’s nothing official from LSU to indicate that the star’s status with the team has changed.
Batiste’s nominations come from his latest album release, “World Music Radio."
The DOTD says that motorists will likely see contractors and their equipment on the southbound bridge between Ponchatoula and LaPlace for a duration of up to two weeks until completion.
State police say that their crews are removing the final group of vehicles from the bridge, which will be followed by a surface cleanup of the area.
While the teacher in question has resigned, Sheriff Daniel Edwards says that an investigation is underway and no arrests have been made at this time.
Brees, an NFL record-setting passer and Super Bowl MVP, is the most decorated and accomplished athlete to play for a Louisiana professional sports franchise.
Family members identified the victims as 38-year-old Quintella Chopin and her two children Jirmani Edwards, 7, and Therrill Edwards Jr., 2.
With the fire spreading, Savanne Road has been closed between Martin Luther King Boulevard and Highway 311.
On March 2, Rodrigo will take the stage at the Smoothie King Center with Chappell Roan on the bill as support.
Chief Crocker was appointed and hired as the first and only administrator of the Tangipahoa Fire Board in 2012 after serving in the Kenner Fire Dept. for 25 years.
Fire Chief Daniel Folks said that responders have been working to contain the fire since 8:30 a.m.
State officials and local law enforcement agencies have stressed repeatedly that there will be no tolerance for anyone in violation during the current burn band as wildfires have been an ongoing threat.
Investigators say that the fire started on Hano Road on Highway 16, near the Tangipahoa and St. Helena parish line.
A spokesperson for Marathon Petroleum says naptha leaked from a storage tank and caught fire in an area surrounding the tank.
The spokesperson said that the release and fire were self-contained on company property and that there were no injuries.
Officials say 171 acres burnt down after someone started a trash fire near the Tangipahoa-St. Helena Parish line.
For the first time ever in school history, Southeastern will host a reigning National Champion when the Lady Tigers make the 50-minute drive east on I-12 for a non-conference matchup at the newly renamed Pride Roofing Center in Hammond, America.
With opening act support from Charley Crockett and Nikki Lane, Stapleton will headline at the Cajundome in Lafayette on Sat. Oct. 14.
The Saints are expected to sign two big-name free agents
Beginning on Aug. 14, Covington native Alison Pelegrin will serve as Louisiana’s next Poet Laureate for the next two years.
The nine-year guard spent the majority of his career with the Carolina Panthers, where he was also a five-time Pro Bowl selection since being drafted out of LSU in 2014.
The 36-year-old five-time Pro Bowl tight end returns to New Orleans after one year of being out of football. He last played with the Saints in 2014. Graham most recently played for the Chicago Bears in the 2020-21 season after stops in Seattle and Green Bay.
The left lane has reopened after both lanes were previously closed, completely shutting down that portion of the interstate.
Those that saw the spectacle reported seeing a greenish-blueish light that lit up the black early morning sky for a matter of seconds around 4:30 a.m.
The District is the latest of a host of new restaurants setting up shop in the small city by the swamp known for its antiques and annual Strawberry Festival located about 45 minutes north of New Orleans on I-55.
Answering the call to provide a spark, LSU athletics supporter and Baton Rouge-based lawyer Gordon McKernan ponied up to buy 8,888 “rally shots” to give fans something new to believe in again.
Mandeville police and St. Tammany sheriff’s deputies say they believe the iconic marquee sign of Saia’s Super Meat Market, which looks like a giant cow, ended up at the lakefront Thursday morning after being taken by some end-of-the-school-year pranksters.
The arrests come after a months-long investigation into seven cases that resulted in the arrests being made by the Hammond Fire Dept. Two of the nine suspects arrested have been charged with felonies.
Jackson was one of 2,500 students to graduate from the University of Pittsburg on April 30, completing a degree in social sciences from the College of General Studies 40 years after he originally left the school for the NFL Draft.
Khalil J. McKnight, of Hammond, was named along with Daniel Z. Liu, of Baton Rouge Magnet High, and Anaya Bhatia, of Caddo Parish Magnet High.
Chief Jimmy Travis said that Anya Owens, 18, took 1-year-old Bradley Livers, Jr. from his father’s home on Melanie Lane in Hammond between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Monday, April 24.
The song La Prière comes off like a ghostly chant that may be something that could be heard echoing in the halls of an isolated cathedral in the wilderness. It sounds like hundreds of years of history captured by the most modern of studio recording equipment.
The sheriff’s office says that Collin Caden Charles Tribe, 20, was arrested Wednesday (April 19) around 3:25 p.m. and booked for 57 counts of burglary from a vehicle with bail set at $570,000.
The school, Ecole Pointe-au-Chien, is located in Pointe-aux-Chenes in Terrebonne Parish. The school’s board is currently working with the Development of French in Louisiana and the Louisiana Department of Education to recruit two French teachers.
The board was first established by Ronald Reagan by executive order in 1982 to advise the president on matters of cultural policy.
On his podcast, The Big Bod, Tuesday (April 11), Shaq said that he believes current LSU women’s hoops star Angel Reese is the greatest to ever wear the purple and gold.
Authorities say that Louis Benjamin, 75, was last seen Wednesday (April 5) around Lake Francis Drive.
LSU Lady Tiger seniors Alexis Morris and LaDazhia Williams have declared for the WNBA Draft. Both of their announcements were made via Instagram.
The Lady Lions have earned their first-ever automatic bid to the NCAA National Championship Tournament after winning the Southland Conference Tournament Championship, defeating Lamar 66-57.
Wednesday, March 8 marks the 12th consecutive day of network outages.
Volodymyr Dorogobid, 38, and Tigran Avetisyan, 39, both of Brooklyn, New York, were booked on three counts of unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system and also for obstruction of justice for tampering with evidence.
Faculty members say it started on Friday with the schools official website going down and the outages were spread to the school’s phones, email, and Moodle online classroom resources.
From now until late April, the strawberry crop in Louisiana is peaking and the state’s trademark red and juicy berries will be distributed across the nation.
Alicia and John got married in 2019 and she was a filmmaker and music producer alongside her husband at John Schneider Studios in Holden.
Travis said that following those arrests over the past weekend, the investigation was expanded and seven more suspects were arrested on Monday (Feb. 20) at another nearby Airbnb in Tickfaw and 122 additional cell phones were recovered.
The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s office announced the arrests of four suspects over the weekend after 40 iPhones as well as credit cards, debit cards, and IDs were found in an Airbnb near Tickfaw. Chief Jimmy Travis says that the items recovered were reported stolen by paradegoers in New Orleans.
ESPN NFL insider Jeremy Fowler reports that the Saints are expected to hire Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator Joe Woods to fill the vacancy left by Ryan Neilsen and Kris Richard.
For many, the Popeye’s viral vine kid will be immortalized in internet comments sections for years to come but the now 19-year-old Dieunerst Collin is making a name for himself through his own merits.
The outage was reported just before 4 a.m.
