You are the owner of this article.Frank Scurlock, the eccentric businessman who ran a longshot race for New Orleans mayor and more recently announced he was running for president of the United States, has filed a lawsuit against the owners of The Times-Picayune and The Advocate as well as a former Picayune reporter.The suit alleges that The Times-Picayune in April 2018 published a story that falsely stated Scurlock had been arrested in California a year earlier. The story, by reporter Kevin Litten, stated that Scurlock that day had pleaded no contest to a charge of “lewd and dissolute...…You are the owner of this article.Frank Scurlock, the eccentric businessman who ran a longshot race for New Orleans mayor and more recently announced he was running for president of the United States, has filed a lawsuit against the owners of The Times-Picayune and The Advocate as well as a former Picayune reporter.The suit alleges that The Times-Picayune in April 2018 published a story that falsely stated Scurlock had been arrested in California a year earlier. The story, by reporter Kevin Litten, stated that Scurlock that day had pleaded no contest to a charge of “lewd and dissolute...WW…

You are the owner of this article.You have permission to edit this article.Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on Friday sued a reporter for The Advocate and The Times-Picayune over a public-records request she filed, asking a judge to issue a declaratory judgment denying the request and seal the proceedings.The unusual action came a few days after the newspaper warned Landry that it intended to sue him if he didn’t turn over the requested records.“In my 40 years as an editor, I’ve never seen a journalist get sued for requesting a public record,” said Peter Kovacs, the newspaper’s...…You are the owner of this article.You have permission to edit this article.Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on Friday sued a reporter for The Advocate and The Times-Picayune over a public-records request she filed, asking a judge to issue a declaratory judgment denying the request and seal the proceedings.The unusual action came a few days after the newspaper warned Landry that it intended to sue him if he didn’t turn over the requested records.“In my 40 years as an editor, I’ve never seen a journalist get sued for requesting a public record,” said Peter Kovacs, the newspaper’s...WW…

You are the owner of this article.You have permission to edit this article.Jamal Elhayek checks his grocery list with an empty shelve of cleaning products at the Circle Food Market on Claiborne Ave. durning the coronavirus pandemic in New Orleans, Monday, March 23, 2020. (Photo by David Grunfeld, , The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate) Orleans Parish has the sixth-highest rate of known cases of any county in the U.S., and it’s the only county among the nation’s top 10 that is not in the New York metro area, an analysis by The Times-Picayune and The Advocate shows.Yet New...…You are the owner of this article.You have permission to edit this article.Jamal Elhayek checks his grocery list with an empty shelve of cleaning products at the Circle Food Market on Claiborne Ave. durning the coronavirus pandemic in New Orleans, Monday, March 23, 2020. (Photo by David Grunfeld, , The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate) Orleans Parish has the sixth-highest rate of known cases of any county in the U.S., and it’s the only county among the nation’s top 10 that is not in the New York metro area, an analysis by The Times-Picayune and The Advocate shows.Yet New...WW…