BACK AT WORK: New Orleans City Council member Jared Brossett made his first appearance back on the job Monday since being arrested for drunk driving for the third time. How'd it go? Ben Myers was there in the council chambers for the ongoing budget hearings.
'GUT-WRENCHING': That's how Saints Coach Sean Payton described Sunday's loss to the Tennessee Titans, the second close game in as many weeks. Luke Johnson has the latest thoughts from the coach and players about how you move on from the ones you want back.
WHISTLEBLOWER SUITS: Two trials got underway Monday involving law enforcement employees who say they were fired for drawing attention to misdeeds at work. In Orleans Parish, a sheriff's office investigator said his probe into a jailed arsonist’s frequent escapes to visit a girlfriend in Gentilly got him fired. On the north shore, the former No. 2 to St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith claims he was fired for his insistence that a deputy stealing drugs at traffic stops should be handled as a criminal matter. The employers of both men disagree.
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Speaking by teleconference the morning after his team suffered its second straight dramatic loss, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton fielded a question about perspective. Read more
On Oct. 15, 2015, an Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office investigator named John Ladd was summoned for a meeting about his probe into a jailed arsonist’s trysts with his girlfriend in Gentilly. Read more
Fred Oswald, then the No. 2-ranking person in the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office, was fired in 2017 because he was a whistleblower, his attorney said Monday as the trial began in Oswald's lawsuit against his former boss, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith. Read more
