http://www.mail.com/locations/12894-orleans.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.20/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/12894-orleans.html http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1763170-gimmicky-boost-lovelorn-las-vegas.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas, land of the quickie wedding, is in the midst of a serious love recession, and chapels in the city accustomed to playing the numbers were not about to let the latest money-making opportunity — Wednesday's auspicious 12/12/12 date — pass without a marketing push. They worked for months to turn the day into a major payout, luring ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1763170-gimmicky-boost-lovelorn-las-vegas.html 2012-12-13T05:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1760482-player-suspensions-tossed-bounty-case.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Four players embroiled for nearly 10 months in the NFL's bounty investigation of the New Orleans Saints no longer have to worry about suspensions or fines, and can try to move on with their careers on the field. Off the field, the fallout from the dispute could endure for some time, particularly in federal court. In a surprising rejecti... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1760482-player-suspensions-tossed-bounty-case.html 2012-12-12T15:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1759840-saints-suspensions-tossed-bounty-case.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Finding fault with nearly everyone tied to the New Orleans Saints' bounty case, from the coaches to Roger Goodell, former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue tossed out the suspensions of four players Tuesday and condemned the team for obstructing the investigation. In a surprising rejection of his successor's overreaching punishments, Tagl... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1759840-saints-suspensions-tossed-bounty-case.html 2012-12-11T23:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1757608-tagliabue-overturns-goodell-saints-suspensions.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a sharp rebuke to his successor's handling of the NFL's bounty investigation, former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue overturned the suspensions of four current and former New Orleans Saints players in a case that has preoccupied the league for almost a year. Tagliabue, who was appointed by Commissioner Roger Goodell to handle the appeals... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1757608-tagliabue-overturns-goodell-saints-suspensions.html 2012-12-11T20:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1755886-review-action-fast-kovacs-good-junk.html "Good Junk" (Minotaur Books), by Ed Kovacs New Orleans private detective Cliff St. James finds himself probing the deadly netherworld of foreign weapons dealers in "Good Junk," the second crime thriller by Ed Kovacs set in the city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Despite his misgivings, St. James joins forces with the New Orlean... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1755886-review-action-fast-kovacs-good-junk.html 2012-12-10T14:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1752438-gay-leads-grizzlies-hornets-96-89.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As animated as Quincy Pondexter was on a night when he couldn't miss, it looked as though he wanted the team that traded him away to notice how well he's doing these days. Pondexter denied it, to which teammate Rudy Gay said, "I don't believe him at all." Gay tied a season-high with 28 points, Pondexter matched his season-high with 16, ... Sat, 08 Dec 2012 03:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1752438-gay-leads-grizzlies-hornets-96-89.html 2012-12-08T03:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1748632-us-attorney-orleans-resigns-amid-probe.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans' corruption-busting federal prosecutor resigned Thursday after two top deputies became embroiled in a scandal that threatens to undermine some of his biggest cases and damaged his standing as one of the most popular public officials in a city with a rich history of graft. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, whose successful prosecutio... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1748632-us-attorney-orleans-resigns-amid-probe.html 2012-12-06T20:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1748752-gary-sinise-trombone-shorty-to-ride-orpheus.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actor Gary Sinise and New Orleans musicians Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and Harry Connick Jr. will lead the parade of the Krewe of Orpheus on the evening of Lundi Gras, the day before Fat Tuesday, and perform at the glitzy ball that follows. The celebrity riders were announced Thursday at Mardi Gras World, the New Orleans studio wher... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1748752-gary-sinise-trombone-shorty-to-ride-orpheus.html 2012-12-06T18:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1747088-bryant-eclipses-30000-lakers-beat-hornets-103-87.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kobe Bryant grinned and uttered the word "irony" as he considered the fact that the team that drafted him nearly 17 years ago was his opponent on the night he eclipsed a scoring milestone to join an exclusive club of NBA greats. It's easy to forget that it was the Hornets who drafted and then traded Bryant away back in 1996. In the year... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1747088-bryant-eclipses-30000-lakers-beat-hornets-103-87.html 2012-12-06T08:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1747016-bryant-youngest-to-reach-30000-points.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kobe Bryant has become the youngest player in NBA history to eclipse 30,000 career points and only the fifth overall to hit that mark. Bryant entered the elite scoring club during the first half of the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the New Orleans Hornets. He arrived in New Orleans 13 points short, and scored his 13th and 14th points... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1747016-bryant-youngest-to-reach-30000-points.html 2012-12-06T01:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1739848-vilmas-testimony-ends-latest-bounty-hearings.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The latest round of appeal hearings in the NFL's bounty investigation concluded Monday evening following witness appearances by former Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress, Saints assistant head coach Joe Vitt and linebacker Jonathan Vilma. Now Vilma, Saints defensive end Will Smith and two other players await a ruling by former ... Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:40:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1739848-vilmas-testimony-ends-latest-bounty-hearings.html 2012-12-04T00:40:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1726344-tulane-ecu-to-join-big-east-14-leaving-c-usa.html The Big East moved quickly to replace Rutgers and braced for more possible departures, getting Tulane and East Carolina to agree to join the re-invented conference in 2014. "I would go as far to say as this is a historic day for Tulane University ... the Big East is coming to the Big Easy," school President Scott Cowen said Tuesday. Tulane, in New Orleans... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1726344-tulane-ecu-to-join-big-east-14-leaving-c-usa.html 2012-11-27T23:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1725566-big-bill-levee-upkeep-to-orleans.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the busy and under-staffed offices of New Orleans' flood-control leaders, there's an uneasy feeling about what lies ahead. By the time the next hurricane season starts in June of 2013, the city will take control of much of a revamped protection system of gates, walls and armored levees that the Army Corps of Engineers has spent about... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1725566-big-bill-levee-upkeep-to-orleans.html 2012-11-27T16:44:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1723084-49ers-use-kaepernick-defense-to-top-saints-31-21.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dashon Goldson turned Marques Colston upside down just as the receiver leaped for a pass over the middle. As Colston landed on his head and lay motionless for several seconds, safety Donte Whitner snagged the deflected pass on New Orleans 42 and weaved his way past Drew Brees and Co., all the way to the end zone. Tha... Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1723084-49ers-use-kaepernick-defense-to-top-saints-31-21.html 2012-11-26T07:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1721974-dog-bite-sidelines-dirty-dozen-trumpeter-towns.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dirty Dozen Brass Band trumpeter Efrem Towns is recovering at home in New Orleans from a vicious attack by a Rottweiler at an Atlanta motel. He missed performances in Colorado and New Orleans after the attack on Nov. 18, and doesn't know if he'll make the band's next scheduled gig on Dec. 28, The Times-Picayune (http://bit.ly/XOJoNr) re... Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1721974-dog-bite-sidelines-dirty-dozen-trumpeter-towns.html 2012-11-25T00:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1716688-tagliabue-expects-to-rule-bounties-december.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue plans to complete all hearings in the NFL's bounty probe of the Saints by Dec. 4 and make a ruling shortly after. Such timing potentially could be disruptive for the Saints, who could lose starting defensive end Will Smith and linebacker Jonathan Vilma while trying to claw back into playoff content... Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1716688-tagliabue-expects-to-rule-bounties-december.html 2012-11-21T22:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1714626-review-box-sets-cash-kiss-jackson.html Select box set reviews from The Associated Press: Johnny Cash, "The Complete Columbia Album Collection" (Columbia/Legacy) If you're under 40, you likely see Johnny Cash two ways — as the nearly mythological Sun Records proto-rocker and as the wizened old man staring down God in his American Recordings period in the years before his 2003 death. ... Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1714626-review-box-sets-cash-kiss-jackson.html 2012-11-20T19:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1709020-co-worker-oil-rig-fire-gulf.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The owner of an oil platform that caught fire after an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last week said Sunday that it has expanded its search for a missing worker, and doctors said one of four men burned in the blaze is improving and is now in fair condition. Two remained in critical condition and one in serious condition, doctors said. ... Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1709020-co-worker-oil-rig-fire-gulf.html 2012-11-18T23:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1708626-correction-gulf-rig-fire-story.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a story Nov. 17 about an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously described the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. It is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, not a state agency. A corrected version of the story is below: Coast Guard: Body found near burned Gulf oil... Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1708626-correction-gulf-rig-fire-story.html 2012-11-18T16:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1706010-2-missing-4-badly-burned-gulf-platform-fire.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard was searching late Friday for two workers missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that transformed the oil industry and life along the coast. The fire, begun while workers were using a t... Sat, 17 Nov 2012 04:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1706010-2-missing-4-badly-burned-gulf-platform-fire.html 2012-11-17T04:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1704984-defense-lawyers-bp-rig-workers-scapegoats.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — While BP has resolved a sweeping criminal probe of its role in the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, two company employees charged in the deaths of 11 rig workers claim the Justice Department is trying to make them scapegoats for the disaster. Attorneys for the highest-ranking BP employees aboard the Deepwater Horizon during... Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1704984-defense-lawyers-bp-rig-workers-scapegoats.html 2012-11-16T09:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1702896-bp-agrees-to-pay-45b-3-employees-charged.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the deadly Gulf of Mexico spill and pay a record $4.5 billion, including the biggest criminal fine in U.S. history. Three BP employees were also charged, two of them with manslaughter. The settlement with the federal government ... Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1702896-bp-agrees-to-pay-45b-3-employees-charged.html 2012-11-15T23:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1702360-us-ag-sets-news-conference-bp-spill-settlement.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will speak in New Orleans about the government's $4.5 billion settlement with BP over the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Department of Justice said Holder and top U.S. officials will hold a news conference at 1:00 p.m. CST about the wide-ranging settlement. London-based BP PLC said in... Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1702360-us-ag-sets-news-conference-bp-spill-settlement.html 2012-11-15T15:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1694328-orleans-streetcar-to-super-bowl-debut.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With the Super Bowl less than three months away, New Orleans is rushing to lay streetcar tracks through one of its busiest corridors to connect by trolley the Louisiana Superdome and the French Quarter. The Big Easy — which will be the site of the big game Feb. 3 — is no stranger to Super Bowls. In the 47 years of game's history, this w... Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1694328-orleans-streetcar-to-super-bowl-debut.html 2012-11-12T15:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1693654-saints-falcons-unbeaten-with-31-27-win.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons can forget about perfection, thanks to their resurgent rivals from the City that Care Forgot. Of all the teams to end Atlanta's unbeaten run, it had to be the New Orleans Saints. And it had to be a memorable, drama-filled game that left the Falcons frustrated by the 1 meager yard they could not get to take a lead ins... Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1693654-saints-falcons-unbeaten-with-31-27-win.html 2012-11-12T02:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1693150-sandys-wrath-stirs-painful-katrina-memories.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The chaos wrought by Superstorm Sandy, the homes tossed from foundations and landmarks buried beneath seawater, delivered a gut-wrenching dose of deja vu for survivors of Hurricane Katrina like Joe and Gloria Robert. Their own home flooded beneath 7 feet of salty water when the levees broke after Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August ... Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1693150-sandys-wrath-stirs-painful-katrina-memories.html 2012-11-11T18:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1686118-sixers-hold-hornets-to-franchise-low-77-62-win.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jrue Holiday and the Philadelphia 76ers figured they deserved a tongue-lashing from coach Doug Collins after a sloppy, turnover-filled first half against undermanned New Orleans. The Sixers still failed to reach 80 points by game's end, but felt better about themselves following a stifling defensive performance that limited the Hornets ... Thu, 08 Nov 2012 04:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1686118-sixers-hold-hornets-to-franchise-low-77-62-win.html 2012-11-08T04:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1683196-loomis-returns-to-saints-unsettled-times.html METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Now that New Orleans general manager Mickey Loomis has returned to work, the Saints need his crisis-management skills to be sharp. The organization continues to be rife with unsettled issues, some of which have made its fan base uneasy. So there was no time for Loomis to ease back into a routine Tuesday after serving his eight-game su... Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1683196-loomis-returns-to-saints-unsettled-times.html 2012-11-07T00:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1680808-brees-robinson-lead-saints-eagles-28-13.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two teams with the same record. Two teams heading in strikingly different directions. Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints appear to be on the rise again. Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles are down, and nearly out. Brees threw two touchdown passes, extending his NFL record streak to 51 games in a row, while Vick was sacked seven... Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1680808-brees-robinson-lead-saints-eagles-28-13.html 2012-11-06T07:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1675252-hornets-beat-jazz-88-86-davis-hurt.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Hornets' first win of the season was overshadowed by an injury to rookie center Anthony Davis. The No. 1 overall pick in the draft was inadvertently elbowed in the head by fellow rookie teammate Austin Rivers and left the game in the first half and didn't return to the Hornets' 88-86 victory over Utah on Friday night. ... Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1675252-hornets-beat-jazz-88-86-davis-hurt.html 2012-11-03T03:23:00Z