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Gulf Coast reporter @nolanews | @ManshipSchool grad | NOLA native | tips: [email protected] 💌

New Orleans, LA
Joined September 2020
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When I’m not reporting, I’m training for my first fight on July 24 at Friday Night Fights in New Orleans. Want to see me fight? DM me for tickets! $30 for GA and $100 for ringside. You won’t wanna miss it. 🥊
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After more than seven hours in the ring, the boxers couldn't lift an arm. The 110-round bout in 1893 remains the longest gloved fight on record — one that pushed the limits of human endurance, defined grit, and cemented New Orleans in boxing history. nola.com/entertainment_life/…
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Set for demolition, Ted's Frostop is an iconic local diner known for its towering, foamy root beer mug that rises up like a beacon of roadside Americana. Yet its story begins far from New Orleans. Let's rewind a full century, to 1926 in Ohio. nola.com/entertainment_life/…
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A mother lost her daughter at a crossing with only flashing lights and no gates. Now she fears fatal collisions like this one could become more common along the line from New Orleans to Mobile. “It hurts," she said. "It really hurts.” nola.com/news/gulf_coast/cra…
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In their dimly lit living room Thursday night, the family struggled to make sense of their daughter's encounter with federal immigration agents, even though she is an American citizen. "We just gotta keep moving," her mother said. "What we do everyday." nola.com/news/border-patrol-…
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After a weekslong search, a Cajun Navy member found Bryan Vasquez, a nonverbal autistic boy who went missing in New Orleans East. "We know that little boy is chasing butterflies and running and having a great time," he said. "Because that's who he was." nola.com/news/crime_police/c…
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The slightest flinch, the spray of saliva, the rippling of skin. At #PowerSlap14 in New Orleans, the jumbotron captured every detail as fighters endured hellacious blows to the face in front of a roaring crowd fueled by adrenaline and chaos. nola.com/entertainment_life/…
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Such a cool and creative gift! Forever grateful for this team 🎄♥️
Since my team at The Advocate | Times-Picayune works across four newsrooms, we spend so much time online together. Slack is our second home. So for Christmas this year we all got digitized.
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Exclusive interview with @GypsyRoseBlanc for @NOLAnews coming tomorrow. We talked about her becoming a mom, Louisiana and her latest memoir.
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Danielle Jackson was waiting for her nephew when she heard the single gunshot that killed him. “He was an amazing father,” she said repeatedly. Despite her grief, Jackson was willing to speak about the victim with me for @NOLAnews nola.com/news/crime_police/m…
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Very thankful to announce that I am officially a breaking news reporter for @NOLAnews! It is a dream come true to write about New Orleans and work with such amazing people. ⚜️
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Lois Ratcliff says she hardly survived watching her son slowly die in Angola prison. He one of the at least 500 incarcerated people who died within Louisiana’s prison system in the last 3 years, a report shows. Read more about his story & the report. ⬇️ theguardian.com/us-news/2024…
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