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Historian Allen Y. Kimble, Jr. is developing a feature film about the Colored Waif’s Home and the overlooked people who helped shape young Louis Armstrong in New Orleans.

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Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office and the Louisiana Passenger Safety Task Force will host a free child safety seat inspection event Sept. 26 in Baton Rouge.

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The Chopin Law Firm secured a $2,325,000 settlement for clients injured when a tire and rim separated from their vehicle and triggered a crash.

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Australian battery tech company Sicona Battery Technologies has acquired New Orleans-based Advano, giving Sicona a U.S. operating base, patent portfolio and pilot manufacturing site as it moves to scale silicon anode production.

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Gordana “Gordi” Mikalacki, founder of Elmm Law Group, will receive WILBYBETTY’s 2026 Resilience & Reinvention Award at the Women in Leadership conference Sept. 16-18 in New Orleans.

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Verras Law founder Spiro J. Verras has been admitted to practice in New York, expanding the firm’s ability to serve clients with ties across state lines.

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Roadkill Art is using Sept. 25 to promote National Roadkill Day, a campaign to reframe roadkill as a legal, sustainable food source.

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The Chopin Law Firm has hired Raven Fielding Benoit for its New Orleans personal injury team, adding a former defense shareholder with trucking, catastrophic injury and trial experience.

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Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty has brought Richard W. Hébert and Liz Wallace into its New Orleans brokerage, adding two agents with deep local roots and luxury market experience.

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Influential Women is featuring Latasha Hales, a higher education leader who now serves as director of financial aid at Southern University at New Orleans.

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New Orleans tourism depends on transportation to connect visitors with hotels, restaurants, conventions, cruise terminals, festivals and attractions across the city and surrounding region.

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New research tied to the Lalaurie Mansion at 1140 Royal Street says the Lower Girls’ School opened there in 1870 as the first racially integrated public school in the South.

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Justin M. Chopin, Richard A. Chopin, and Philip Lorio IV were selected for the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs.

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The Chopin Law Firm secured a $489,244.69 federal verdict for Moncell Collins after a bench trial in the Eastern District of Louisiana.

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The Chopin Law Firm’s Leah R. Rhodes and John C. Wegmann spoke at a New Orleans Bar Association CLE on July 15, 2026, focused on workers’ compensation and third-party liability claims.

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The Retirement Industry Trust Association will bring its fall conference to New Orleans on Oct. 28-29, 2026, with sessions on retirement-plan regulation, operations and compliance.

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Gary E Smith’s And So It Goes won first place in the Political Thriller category at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award.

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Repeated contact from mowers and string trimmers can slowly wear down wood, vinyl, metal and chain-link fences during Louisiana’s long growing season.

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Prevue Meetings + Incentives and Caesars Entertainment will announce a new industry-wide effort in New Orleans on Aug. 3 aimed at recognizing the professionals behind meetings and events worldwide.

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Award-winning Realtor Valerie Barrilleaux has joined Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty in New Orleans, adding more than 13 years of experience in the Greater New Orleans market.