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FOX 8 WVUE New Orleans News, Weather, Sports I don't know that I've ever seen anything before like this emotionally gripping encounter on the video above. In it, former New Orleans police officer Josh Colclough, 29, meets with the mother and family of Wendell Allen, the 20-year-old, unarmed young man Colclough shot and killed while executing a narcotics warrant last March. Shortly after the

President Obama spoke at the White House today about the Trayvon Martin case saying that 35 years ago, he could have been Trayvon. He said what he had to say diplomatically, making this salient point: . . . [W]hen you think about why, in the African- American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African- American

Latest Update, August 16: Negligible alcohol and no drugs found in Terrilynn Monette's system, says coroner's toxicology report. Read at WWLTV site. Formerly missing Terrilynn Monette On Monday, I wrote about the Terrilynn Monette case and how I felt about it as a New Orleans resident and mother of an adult daughter. I spent some of that post obsessing over my belief that criminal justice

Latest Update, August 16: Negligible alcohol and no drugs found in Terrilynn Monette's system, says coroner's toxicology report. Read at WWLTV site. Monette's car with her body was found in Bayou St. John. Mourners have left flowers in her memory. NOLA.com Terrilynn Monette's death may have been ruled a drowning with no foul play, but what I remember most about