As NoDef's Jessica Placzek reported Tuesday, an out-of-town group known as Operation Save America is in New Orleans this week holding anti-abortion rallies in Jackson Square and the site of a new Planned Parenthood clinic on Claiborne Ave. Today, Planned Parenthood and a host of other health care providers, faith leaders and social justice advocates issued the following response to the demonstrators:

NOPD detectives are searcing for a woman who arranged a meeting with a man on the Internet, then carjacked him when they met face-to-face in the 7th Ward. The woman, known as Ali W, stole the man's flame-adorned 2010 Dodge Challenger about 4 a.m. Wednesday in the 2200 block of St. Anthony St., police said.

Lionel Ferbos, the city's oldest jazz musician at the time of his death, will get a jazz funeral sendoff next month. Services for the trumpeter, who passed away July 19 at the age of 103, will take place on the same weekend as Satchmo Summerfest, where he often played.

by Christopher Romaguera

With increased movie production in New Orleans, more learning opportunities are also emergin for pros and locals alike. This weekend, the New Orleans Video Access Center is set to offer the latest installment of a course series on movie sound production titled In the Loop. The Saturday (7-26) class on Intro to Loop Recording for Actors will be presented with Loop South. 

Police caught up with a weekend shooting victim Tuesday who left the hospital without permission from doctors. Now, detectives are looking for the man who shot Isiah Miller in Gert Town early Sunday morning.

A much needed delivery was made Tuesday (7-22) morning in the Lower 9th Ward. About $25,000 dollars worth of interior and exterior siding was handed over to the non profit, lowernine.org, courtesy of the James Hardie company. 

New Orleans is under flash flood warning until 11:15 a.m., according to the National Weather Service. A band of strong thunderstorms are moving across the area.

Hell Yes, the NOLA/Austin comedy fest, brings comedian Dave Hill to One Eyed Jacks tonight. Plus, Peter Matthew Bauer of the Walkmen at Gasa Gasa and hard rock band Surrender the Fall at Southport Hall. Happy birthday to Soul Rebels snare drummer Lumar LeBlanc, celebrating his 47th today. Read on for more details tonight:

FBI agents arrested the second suspect in a Lower 9th Ward murder that happened on Memorial Day, according to a news release. Jeremiah Washington, 28, turned himself in on Tuesday (7-22) morning.

After nine years, the NOPD 5th District has finally returned to its home at 3900 N. Claiborne. Nestled between a daycare and the New Salem Baptist Church, the 5th District’s new base is housed in an angular and modern 17,000 sq ft. building.

With Gov. Bobby Jindal and state education leaders still at an impasse over Common Core, it appears it will be up to the courts to decide how to resolve whether the national education standards will be applied in Louisiana for the 2014-15 school year. So far, the state education leaders haven't filed suit as expected, but legislators and a group of parents and teachers were happy to lawyer up in the meantime.

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and the New Orleans Film Society are once again teaming up to show movies among the rarefied art in City Park. For the hotter, soggier summer months, the latest cinematic series will move into the museum's marbled halls, and focus on the work of a famed Mexican cinematographer.

Despite coaxing from ratings-hungry Weather Channel producers, a tropical disturbance making its way west across the Atlantic Ocean is expected to collapse into downward spiral of depression. As of Tuesday (7-22) morning, Tropical Depression 2 was not expected to reach Tropical Storm strength, according to National Hurricane Center forecaster Michael Brennan.

Tuesday night is your last chance to catch Life Itself as Roger Ebert would have wanted you to see it: on the big screen. Writer Josh Weil appears in the Garden District tonight, touring in support of his first novel. Plus, two quality indie shows, with A Sunny Day in Glasgow performing at Gasa Gasa and folk-pop newcomers James Wallace & the Naked Light at the Mudlark Theatre. More details:

"Do your best, be funny, and don't be a dick." That represents comedian Duncan Pace's three maxims for anyone wanting to be a part of the New Orleans comedy scene. "That's a great combination of rules.  And other comedy scenes might not have 'Don't be a dick.' And they would be great comedy scenes, and there may be great comedians, but the environment would be more cut-throat."  

Police announced that they have identified and apprehended a suspect in a fatal Treme stabbing. NOPD said that the suspect, 75 yr. old, Seabon "Tom" Gibson was bought in for questioning around 8 p.m. Sunaday (7.20.14) evening and subsequently confessed to killing his live-in girlfriend around 1:25 a.m. this morning.