OMAHA, Neb. — LSU freshman shortstop Alex Bregman dreamed since he was a batboy for the University of New Mexico Lobos of playing in the College World Series.

His first game here may be one he wants to forget.

The national freshman of the year and LSU’s leading hitter went 0-for-4 on Sunday, dropping his team-leading batting average to .374. He also committed a critical error on a hard hit but fairly routine ground ball in the eighth by Eric Filia, allowing the winning run to score from second in the Tigers’ 2-1 defeat.

The Housing Authority of New Orleans plans to apply for new Hope VI revitalization grants to continue work on its B.W. Cooper and Florida housing complexes, according to the plan the agency approved Tuesday that will govern its operations, policies, services and programs in the upcoming fiscal year. The agency’s federal receiver, David Gilmore, will submit the plan to HUD for approval, where it will serve as HANO’s application for federal funding for capital projects.

NOPD officer fired for bad check

A New Orleans police officer who wrote a bad check for $2,505 to a St. Charles Parish business, eventually leading to a warrant for his arrest, was fired Tuesday by the NOPD.

Jeremy Wilcox violated the New Orleans Police Department’s moral conduct policy, according to a news release. The six-year veteran came under the microscope last July when he was pulled over by a St.

New Orleans topped a Forbes magazine list of the cities that have seen the biggest population growth since the national recession, although officials with the business magazine say the ranking is partially due to the population rebound after Hurricane Katrina.

The population of the Crescent City increased by 28.2 percent since 2007, to reach 369,250, Forbes said in an article posted on its website Tuesday. That’s well ahead of the 17.7 percent population growth that happened in the second fastest-growing city, Chula Vista, Calif.

What Vui Vu saw -- or rather, what she didn’t see -- took center stage Tuesday afternoon at a hearing over whether convicted killer Rogers LaCaze should get a new trial in one of the city’s most notorious murder rampages nearly two decades ago.

Vu, who worked in the kitchen of the Kim Anh restaurant where the 1995 triple murder took place, testified with the help of a Vietnamese translator that she hid with two others in the cooler in the back when the first gunshot rang out.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration is complaining to a federal judge that a new state law makes it impossible to set up a centralized system to manage off-duty detail work for New Orleans police officers - at least how it’s required under a federal consent decree governing vast NOPD reforms.

In a legal filing late Monday, the city claimed a new law authored by state Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, amounts to a gag order barring leaders of the new Office of Police Secondary Employment - set up under City Hall - from communicating with the NOPD brass or officers about anything except specific detail assignments.

A former supervisor with the Orleans Parish Clerk of Criminal Court has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges, admitting that she took cash and other “things of value” from an unlicensed bail bondsman in exchange for allowing the bondsman to bogus documents to secure bond for clients.

The bail bondsman is not named in a summary of the government’s case against Lear Enclarde, 68; the document refers to him only as “Bail Bondsman A.

Former Saints special teams icon Steve Gleason said Tuesday via his foundation's Facebook page that he accepted the apologizes of three Atlanta sports radio talk show hosts that mocked his incurable and fatal disease.

Their on-air skit one day earlier centered around a mock interview of Gleason, 36, who suffers from
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The
degenerative disease attacks motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord.