Woman shot in the arm on Joliet Street

A woman was shot in the arm on Memorial Day in the Leonidas neighborhood, New Orleans police reported. It was the second shooting in the neighborhood during an especially violent weekend across New Orleans.

Arrested in this incident was Alphonse Young, 66. Young was booked into Orleans Parish Justice Center on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm, negligent injuring and illegal use of weapons.

Suspects sought in thefts of children’s toys, power tools, lawnmower

The New Orleans Police Department released photos from surveillance video related to two thefts outside Uptown homes, one involving a package of toys taken from a front porch and another involving a lawnmower and other tools taken from a backyard.

In the Freret neighborhood, police are seeking to locate and identify a suspect in a package theft seen on video surveillance on May 10.

At 2:35 a.m., an intruder in a hooded sweatshirt, with the hood tightly pulled over the head, entered the front yard of a home in 2300 block of Robert Street. The intruder walked onto the front porch and removed a boxed package that contained children’s toys.

Danae Columbus: Stage set for fight that progressives cannot win

As the Louisiana Legislature prepares to pass one of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in the U.S., many pro-choice women are stunned by how the pendulum has swung to the right after more than 20 years of safe, legal abortions. Though abortion-rights advocates around the country initially dismissed the notion of life beginning with a fetal heartbeat, the concept of third trimester abortions eventually became abhorrent to the majority of voters. Proponents of Louisiana’s legislation have set the stage for a fight that liberals and progressives cannot win.

Plan to convert the Dew Drop Inn into a hotel is dead — landmark building’s future uncertain

By Nicholas Reimann, Uptown Messenger

Plans to redevelop the historic, dilapidated Dew Drop Inn building on Lasalle Street in Central City into a modern hotel, restaurant and music venue have officially been scrapped.

A deal had been in place late last year that would have seen the 80-year-old, predominantly Jim Crow-era music venue sold to a developer with plans to renovate the two-story, 10,000-square-foot space to include 15 hotel rooms, along with a restaurant, music venue and a museum dedicated to New Orleans music.