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A week before he was gunned down , 30-year-old Zachary Carpenter pressed his hands into soil beneath Interstate 610, and built a community garden under an underpass.
The space, near the corner of Paris Avenue and Pleasure Street in Gentilly, was adjacent to the popular skatepark Parasite, a site that Carpenter had helped establish, and a place he spent much of his free time working to improve.
Carpenter dug and planted, and after he finished, he characteristically got on his skateboard, and started to shred.
Friends and family gathered at the park Sunday afternoon to honor Carpenter, who one person called "the skateboarding philanthropist." Rather than grieve, they grilled hot dogs and popped wheelies.
Carpenter, who family members say moved to New Orleans eight months after Hurricane Katrina to help the rebuilding effort, was a skilled laborer with construction experience, but eventually settled at a job at Best Buy, where
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New Orleans police are looking for an armed robber who confronted two sets of victims in short succession early Saturday. The two incidents took place Uptown , blocks away from each other and 10 minutes apart.
In the first incident, the perpetrator approached victims walking from their car to their home in the 7400 block of Hampson Street at 12:08 a.m. Saturday, said a report from the New Orleans Police Department . Near the rear of their home, the suspect told them to give him whatever money they had and pulled out a black and silver, semi-automatic pistol. His targets handed over money, and the assailant fled.
About 10 minutes later in the 7700 block of Burthe Street, the same suspect committed another armed robbery, the police report said, fleeing toward South Carrollton Avenue.
Police said the perpetrator is a clean-shaven, 18 to 22-year-old man between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-10 with a thin build and neck-length dreadlocks, wearing a black shirt and jeans.
Investigators ask anyone
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Freddy Galvis and Erik Kratz each homered off closer Aroldis Chapman in the bottom of the ninth innings Sunday, rallying the Philadelphia Phillies past the Cincinnati Reds for a stunning 3-2 victory.
Chapman (3-2) blew his second straight save opportunity after converting his first eight chances this season.
Antonio Bastardo (2-1) pitched a scoreless ninth inning for Philadelphia.
Jay Bruce homered and Homer Bailey tossed seven scoreless innings for the Reds.
Joey Votto went 2 for 4 in extending his hitting streak to eight games. He is batting .515 (17 for 33) over the stretch.
Chase Utley's RBI single in the eighth inning snapped the Phillies' 16 scoreless innings skid.
MARLINS 2, DIAMONDBACKS 1
MIAMI (AP) — Ricky Nolasco struck out 11 and the Marlins stopped a season-high seven-game losing streak by holding off Arizona.
The Diamondbacks scored once in the ninth. Mike Dunn, the Marlins' third
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2,800 students graduated from Tulane University on Saturday, May 18th, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
...Apparently no one told the University of Louisiana-Lafayette that the LSU softball team was the top seed at the Baton Rouge Regional Tournament.
The No. 21 Ragin' Cajuns bested the Tigers 1-0 in the championship round despite LSU (42-16) entering the weekend as the No. 9 seed in the NCAA tournament.
"Obviously this is not what we were expecting," LSU Coach Beth Torina said. "This is not the type of softball that we've played all year. I think we're better than what we showed this weekend, but [ULL] is a quality program and I think that's what happened to us."
Sunday's loss is the second time in as many days LSU fell to ULL (46-13), which pushed its postseason win streak against the Tigers to five consecutive games tracing to 2008.
LSU's season ended after the offense struggled in both games against a ULL defense anchored by sophomore pitcher Jordan
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Two New Orleans music legends were honored at Tulane University’s Commencement ceremony at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome Saturday.
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The Pensacola News Journal has been reporting on the disappearance of Owen Elliot Black at Perdido Key, Fla., and the discovery of his body on Sunday, May 19, 2013. (Pensacola News Journal web site)
PERDIDO KEY, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say they have found the body of an 8-year-old autistic boy who went missing while vacationing in the Florida Panhandle.
Owen Elliot Black was on the beaches of Perdido Key with his mother when he wandered off on his own around 4 p.m. Friday . Authorities said the family was vacationing from Louisiana.
The Pensacola News Journal reports hundreds of volunteers and law enforcement officials assembled for a massive search by land and sea Sunday, knocking on doors and looking in cars. Deputies and K-9 dogs trampled over sand dunes and searched in bushes.
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said on the
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Harvey school teacher Terrilynn Monette was last seen in Lakeview on March 2. Her family is in town hoping to continue to keep her name out in the public eye. They held church services today open to the public and police continue to search for new leads.
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