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'I need my baby's body,' mother says of 14-year-old missing in the Mississippi River A search for a 14-year-old who authorities said jumped into the Mississippi River was called off over the weekend, leaving his family and others who knew him desperate to recover his body and questioning how a chase of a stolen vehicle ended in a boy's death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565199767145-HN4G1GGKY4WTHCO1DNAD/matthew+nesser.jpg News Stories - Former Lakeview teacher accused of kissing 14-year-old student in his classroom A former teacher at Edward Hynes Charter School in Lakeview is accused of pursuing an inappropriate relationship with a female 8th grade student, who reported the 34-year-old teacher kissed her on more than one occasion and told her he loved her, according to court documents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565199200552-A63HKOZS72IIUYJCS6UJ/image-asset.jpeg News Stories - Sophie B. Wright lawsuit over graduation privileges stalled by move to Federal Court A lawsuit over a school’s decision to bar some students who participated in a senior prank last month from walking in their upcoming graduation was stalled Monday (May 6), when a last minute request from Sophie B. Wright’s attorney moved the case from Civil District Court to Federal Court. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565199573538-1TCJPNL6QJ8VTDQA3XWZ/robert+smith.jpg News Stories - Man found guilty in 2015 rape, robbery and kidnapping of pregnant woman; faces mandatory life sentence A man accused of kidnapping, robbing and raping a woman at gunpoint in Central City in 2015 was found guilty Wednesday (Dec. 20), after his attorney failed to convince Criminal District Judge Franz L. Zibilich the victim was a prostitute who faked the crimes over a payment dispute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565198980137-2JK467OTLIK6MNKRK3CZ/image-asset.jpeg News Stories - S&WB: New Orleans hit with more than 5 inches of rain overnight More than five inches of rain fell in New Orleans during a seven-hour period overnight Saturday and early Sunday (May 12), according to the Sewerage and Water Board, causing widespread street flooding across the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565199083002-W5K2BWXBQNR2AKORQCK5/bey.jpg News Stories - As Messy Mya lawsuit settles, another New Orleans artist sues Beyonce Beyonce is at the center of yet another federal lawsuit in connection to her 2016 hit song, "Formation," this time accused by the star of the Oscar-nominated Hurricane Katrina documentary "Trouble the Water." http://www.mariesimoneaux.com/features daily 0.75 2022-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565199992547-PYM56JF6VQ0AKSXLUFWQ/image-asset.jpeg Features & Profiles - Local man with disability runs in the Crescent City Classic For many, the idea of running a 10k race is daunting enough, but James Fernandez, 53, accomplished it without something most take for granted — his sight. (Winner of SPJ Mark of Excellence Award) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565200123077-3Z7VFGBSK759X21GBIDW/stv.jpg Features & Profiles - Hours before New Orleans mass shooting, a neighborhood rallied for end to violence Pastor Tyrone Smith left Sampson Park tired but joyous, buzzing from the success of the Stop the Violence rally he helped organize in the Desire area Saturday evening (July 28). Smith went back to his house, turned on the TV and immediately learned 10 people had been shot on South Claiborne Avenue, three suffering fatal wounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565200290178-E2VTNBQDE0XFG65VSFIY/judah.jpg Features & Profiles - After burned bodies found near his Algiers home, a father worries for his family Judah Love woke up to learn two bodies were found burned "beyond recognition" just feet from his Algiers home Monday morning (July 30) and was faced with a task that broke his heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565200460041-COPFHWA9Y8VBICCQ31SC/image-asset.jpeg Features & Profiles - Thousands gather to honor Prince one last time A sea of purple flooded Treme on Monday in celebration of the life of the late pop star, Prince, after his unexpected death last week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565200203456-PHLYTOOEGI0O14TQOHNQ/maryam.jpg Features & Profiles - Starting with $40 and a suitcase, former inmate built Arabi thrift store to help others Maryam Uloho describes her life by "The Four P's": Projects, for the life of the poverty she knew growing up in Dayton, Ohio, Palaces, for the extravagant world she was shown by her husband in Warri, Nigeria. Prison, for the over 10 years she served in the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel, where she says much of her time was spent in what she described as solitary confinement. And paradise -- for Sister Hearts, the cluttered Arabi thrift store and "de-carceration" program she has built over the past five years, starting with $40 and a suitcase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565199927001-2AQ27NMJLTLA6GNMZMA4/image-asset.jpeg Features & Profiles - 45 years after UpStairs Lounge fire, memorial offers something like peace for 1 family When Ferris Jerome LeBlanc went missing from his home in California in the early 1970s, his family was heartbroken and confused. Decades later, they learned he was one of 32 men killed in an arson attack at a French Quarter gay bar, the UpStairs Lounge. On Sunday (June 24), three years after discovering his fate, Ferris LeBlanc's sister, Marilyn LeBlanc, was finally able to attend a memorial service for her long-lost brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1565200407318-XPXGV5HIVJ13S7KL3QSZ/lil+ricky.jpg Features & Profiles - ‘I'll be right back': Widow of man killed on Elysian Fields remembers his last words Erica Goins thought nothing of it when her husband stepped out to go to Walmart Sunday afternoon. "I'll be right back," he told her. But he never came back. http://www.mariesimoneaux.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2019-01-31 http://www.mariesimoneaux.com/marketing-content daily 0.75 2022-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/dbb98d5e-b64e-4ec9-872b-8657832d769a/Geraldine-College.jpg Marketing Content - Celebrating 125: How One Librarian Paved The Way For True Integrationtion/ Geraldine Vaucresson was hired in 1961 as the first Black librarian in New Orleans to work at a traditionally white library. 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Those little slices of New Orleans are put there by librarian Jan Barnes, a 31-year NOPL veteran who has been at the helm of the Library’s ILL program for the past decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1624040827986-80X3Z3SM0Q4R8IYESAKB/IMG_0007.jpeg Marketing Content - Library Provides Foundation for Street Renaming Project Mayor Latoya Cantrell assembled a commission to consider the renaming of a list of about 20 streets and parks. The nine-person team is made up of members representing each council member, the Mayor, and the City Planning Commission. Also involved in the process: The New Orleans Public Library’s Louisiana Division/City Archives & Special Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1624041095268-L8IYB4JMQAO0SEM0UYC6/IMG_0734.jpeg Marketing Content - NOPL Helps New School Build A Library When Edward Hynes Charter opened a new elementary school in Gentilly in 2019, Principal Brittany Smith assumed it would take them years to build their in-school library. But, thanks to help from the New Orleans Public Library, they were able to start offering their inaugural class access to an on-campus library in a matter of months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/78662943-86d7-4413-ad77-ee2ff920b435/Girls+Who+Code.jpeg Marketing Content - 'I Think it's Rad:' Library Club Inspires Girls to Code For the past few weeks, 7th graders Gracie Hodes and Sophia Vernier–Molinario have spent every Monday afternoon building their coding and creativity skills at the New Orleans Public Library’s Girls Who Code club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/52dba777-c8f8-4baf-8904-9d5537f7449e/lynn+dosty.jpeg Marketing Content - 'A Beautiful Discovery': NOPL Resources Help California Woman Unravel Family History Lynn Dosty is a California native who has only been to New Orleans once, for a visit almost two decades ago. And yet, in the past few months, she said the New Orleans Public Library has changed her life and set her on a genealogical mission to tell her family’s story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ce166a859fd04caa28335b/1619463370073-MDA9WQPL3HRO9MC32FLT/IMG_7699%2B%281%29.jpeg Marketing Content - Celebrating 125: A Look Back at New Orleans' First Black Library The New Orleans Public Library first opened its doors 125 years ago in 1897, but it would take more than 16 years for the Library to serve all New Orleanians.