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Sidney Smith alleged that the coroner failed to identify his son Justin's body for nearly a month. Smith's son died in 2023.
A man killed in an early morning Algiers shooting this week was identified by the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office Thursday.
Three men killed in separate shootings last week were identified Tuesday by the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office.
NOPD is investigating an early morning fatal shooting on Franklin Avenue, where an adult male was pronounced dead at the ...
The New Orleans Coroner’s Office has experienced an air conditioning outage impacting the ability to perform autopsies.
Autopsies at the New Orleans Coroner’s Office are on hold after an AC failure left the building too hot for staff to work safely. LSU may assist temporarily.
Orleans Parish Coroner Dwight McKenna's office conducted more than a dozen autopsies at the LSU Medical School after the ...
The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a fatal crash which happened in Algiers on Wednesday night, July 30.
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Orleans Parish Coroner plans to move bodies out of his facility by Wednesday (July 15), unless the building’s air conditioning is fixed beforehand. A spokesperson for Dr ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Facility operations are impacted at the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office citing an air conditioning outage. New Orleans Coroner Dr. Dwight McKenna says the coolers in the ...
New Orleans Coroner’s office looking to move bodies after A/C malfunction Coolers in the morgue remain operational, but building is extremely hot The API failed to deliver the resource.