A jury on Thursday acquitted a former Xavier University basketball player who had been accused in the fatal Mardi Gras Day crash that killed Grammy-winning musician Kerry Hunter.

New Orleans celebrates its first Mutant Appreciation Day in Uncanny X-Men #18, but something sinister may be brewing beneath the festival fun.

Grammy-winning drummer Kerry Hunter, 53, was hit by a car and killed just after midnight on Mardi Gras.

Heavy rains are expected mid-to-late-week in portions of Florida and the north-central Gulf.