New Orleans news and stories by mail.com

New Orleans

A glance at Carnival's decisions for disabled ship
Since an engine-room fire left the Carnival Triumph powerless in the Gulf of Mexico four days ago, Carnival Cruise Lines officials have been faced ...
NFL ready to get Super Bowl played at MetLife
Super Bowl Monday. Super Bowl Wednesday. Surely that sounds better than Super Bowl PPD. The NFL says it's ready for next year's title game at MetLife ...
Raindrops, gloomy skies can't stop Mardi Gras
Despite threatening skies, the Mardi Gras party carried on as thousands of costumed revelers cheered glitzy floats with make-believe monarchs in an ...
New Orleans revelers: threat of soggy Fat Tuesday
Scattered showers didn't deter revelers Monday as thousands flocked to New Orleans' historic French Quarter and surrounding areas along the ...
Back to New Orleans: Beyonce to perform at Essence
Beyonce is coming back to New Orleans and back to the Superdome. After entertaining a huge television audience in a packed dome during the Super Bowl ...
New Orleans revelers face a soggy end to Carnival
Carnival parades managed to roll Sunday in New Orleans despite bad weather, but revelers might not be so lucky on Monday. Parades planned for Fat ...
4 wounded in shooting during Mardi Gras revelry
Investigators worked early Monday to find suspects in a weekend shooting that wounded four on Bourbon Street during the countdown to Mardi Gras, while ...
Hospital releases 3 New Orleans shooting victims
Gunshots erupted in a crowd of bead-wearing, drink-carrying late-night revelers on Bourbon Street during the countdown to Mardi Gras, wounding four ...
Mardi Gras ball 1st Superdome event since blackout
This time, the lights stayed on in the Superdome. The glitzy Mardi Gras Krewe of Endymion rolled its parade and super float through the Superdome on ...
Largest-ever Mardi Gras float has a little hiccup
In a city known for overindulgence, maybe the largest-ever Mardi Gras float was a little too much. The 330-foot long super float built by the Krewe ...
Super Bowl blackout was caused by electrical relay
The company that supplied electricity to the Super Bowl says the blackout that halted the big game was caused by a device it installed specially to ...
Mayor defends New Orleans after Super Bowl outage
New Orleans' mayor defended his city days after a power outage plunged the Super Bowl into 34 minutes of darkness, while authorities still baffled by ...
Goodell: New Orleans 'terrific,' despite blackout
The blackout at the Superdome will not stop the Super Bowl from returning to New Orleans. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that despite the ...
Ravens edge 49ers 34-31 in electric Super Bowl
For a Super Bowl with so many story lines, this game came up with quite a twist. Try a blackout that turned a blowout into a shootout — capped by a ...
New Orleans braces for fallout from blackout
A Super Bowl week that had gone so smoothly for the Big Easy suddenly turned bizarre when everyone was watching. The lights went out on the biggest ...
SUPER BOWL WATCH: Super indeed, Baltimore's joy
Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: ...
Power outage stops Super Bowl for 34 minutes
The Super Bowl turned into Blackout Sunday. The biggest game of the year was halted for 34 minutes because of a power outage, plunging parts of the ...
Sandy Hook choir, Hudson delight Super Bowl crowd
As 26 children in white polo shirts excitedly walked to center of the Superdome field and prepared to sing, a packed Super Bowl crowd revved up by a ...
Journey, Rascal Flatts team up for CMT Crossroads
Even before Journey and Rascal Flatts got on stage together for CMT's Crossroads concert Super Bowl weekend, they were already in perfect harmony.
Timberlake gives Super Bowl-eve comeback concert
One of the most anticipated musical moments of the year so far happened in New Orleans and was connected to the Super Bowl — but it had nothing to do ...
CeeLo, Kyle Bush, others party for Super Bowl
CeeLo was looking for a little New Orleans action. David Gregory was taking the weekend off from "Meet the Press." And Paul McCartney was hanging out ...
Super Bowl of firsts, lasts, bests
The journey to this Super Bowl wound through bounties and replacement refs, eventually bringing the big game back to the Big Easy — with a replacement ...
SUPER BOWL WATCH: NFL awards, real fun to come
Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: ...