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• New Orleans Launches Gay Guide

  There's now an official gay and lesbian destination guide for New Orleans. The Navigaytour will launch just in time for the 39th Annual Southern Decadence Festival, which welcomes on average 100,000 attendees for events over the Labor Day weekend.

• Hurricane Katrina tested former NOPD lieutenant's mettle

  Days after losing his mother, Russell Vappie, a Public Integrity bureau lieutenant for the New Orleans Police Department, inherited command over dozens of officers during Hurricane Katrina and orchestrates the evacuation of 750 men, women and children from the floodwater-swamped Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital in eastern New Orleans.

• Pedicab trial authorized by New Orleans City Council

  The City Council agreed this week to authorize for-hire pedicabs in New Orleans, at least for a trial period of a year or more, but the action may have to survive a legal challenge before the pedal-powered rickshaws can start picking up passengers.

• Talent, blues, a footie team? Stories about New Orleans around the Web

  With Hurricane Katrina' s fifth anniversary in the city's rear-view mirror, Web outlets around the world are still writing about New Orleans' recovery.

• Suspect arrested in 2008 Iberville murder thanks to Crimestoppers tip

  More than a year after New Orleans authorities began plastering his mugshot across Crimestoppers' "Most Wanted" website and billboards, murder suspect Alvin Tuckson was arrested on Wednesday after being given up by a tipster.

• Makeup of proposed New Orleans recreation commission endorsed

  Hoping to shore up support for a proposed City Charter amendment that would shift responsibility for the city's recreation programs to a new public-private partnership, the New Orleans City Council on Thursday approved an ordinance spelling out the makeup of the commission that would oversee the programs if voters approve the charter change Oct.

• Safety Tips Can Prevent Hot Car Deaths

  On a hot summer day, temperatures can spike to the triple digits pretty quickly, and children can die of they're left in a car.

• Kenner Marine killed Tuesday in Afghanistan

  Herbert Bovia knew immediately what had happened when he saw the sharply dressed men in uniforms standing on his front porch Tuesday evening.

• New Orleans Grand Jury Indictments

  On Thursday, September 2, 2010, District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro's office obtained the following indictments from the Grand Jury.

• Gulf oil platform explodes, burning off La. coast

  NEW ORLEANS, La. a ' An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.