During the months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, pastor Joseph Campion in the city's Lower Ninth Ward helped hundreds of people wipe away tears. Parishioner Carolyn Parker wasn't one of them.
New Orleans authorities will not pursue misdemeanor battery charges against actor Cuba Gooding Jr. after a run-in with a bartender at a Bourbon Street bar, according to a city spokesman.
British comedian and actor Russell Brand was ordered by a judge to do 20 hours of community service and pay a fine of $500 in New Orleans on Thursday over a charge related to throwing a photographer's iPhone through a window.
