Jesse Brooks 561620

Digital Content Producer 6g1t1d
New Orleans, Louisiana 41551h
Jesse Brooks

Jesse Brooks is a Digital Content Producer creating content for the web in the New Orleans market. 96y3g

Brooks previously worked as a reporter for the Hammond Daily Star and newspapers in Amite, Kentwood, and St. Helena Parish. He is an LPA award-winning writer and journalist. He is also a New Orleans based singer-songwriter, comedian, and actor.

National
Authorities say Donnie Lee Stevenson followed a woman inside the store, kidnapped her, and...

Police arrest man accused of kidnapping woman outside Target and raping her 4p4z5z

Updated: Mar. 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM CDT
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By Jesse Brooks and Jordan Gartner
Louisiana authorities say they have arrested an 18-year-old man wanted in connection with a kidnapping and rape case.

National
Autumn Hano Harper, 24, was booked into the Washington Parish Jail in the death of her baby.

Mother accused of beating her 8-month-old child to death h3eh

Updated: Mar. 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM CDT
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By Jesse Brooks, Gabby Killett and Jordan Gartner
Police in Louisiana say they have arrested a mother accused of beating her 8-month-old child to death.

Crime
From left, 27-year-old Kansas City Telemundo reporter Adan Manzano, who was found dead in his...

Police seize electronic devices in investigation into Kansas City reporter’s death 6c4a5l

Updated: Feb. 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM CST
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By Heidi Schmidt and Jesse Brooks
Adan Manzano, 27, was in New Orleans covering the event for Telemundo in Kansas City.

National
According to investigators, security footage shows Danette Colbert, of Slidell, with Manzano...

Woman accused of using credit card of sports reporter who was found dead while covering Super Bowl 673f6w

Updated: Feb. 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM CST
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By Jesse Brooks and Debra Worley
Telemundo KC announced on Thursday that Adan Manzano, 27, an anchor and reporter on assignment to cover Super Bowl LIX, died.

National
Emergency services attend the scene on Bourbon Street after a vehicle drove into a crowd on...

At least 15 dead, 35 injured after man ‘intentionally’ drives into New Year’s revelers in New Orleans 44n2m

Updated: Jan. 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM CST
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By Gray News staff, Amanda Alvarado, Jesse Brooks and Emily Van de Riet
At least 15 people are dead after a truck intentionally plowed through a crowd in New Orleans.

National
Fire at Marathon refinery in Garyville 5

Chemical leak, fire reported at Louisiana refinery; evacuations lifted 3ks6x

Updated: Aug. 25, 2023 at 5:13 PM CDT
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By Jesse Brooks and Gray News staff
A spokesperson for Marathon Petroleum says naptha leaked from a storage tank and caught fire in an area surrounding the tank.

National
Firefighters said when they arrived, the building was engulfed in flames and that they had to...

73-year-old woman trapped by security gate dies in house fire, family says 25646s

Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 2:29 PM CST
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By Jesse Brooks and Emily Van de Riet
A 73-year-old woman died in a fire at her home because she was trapped by a security gate with a padlock on it, according to the victim’s family.

National
The body of a man who went missing after a boat capsized in Lake Pontchartrain was recovered.

Missing man’s body recovered and identified after boat capsizes in lake on Memorial Day 95f3f

Updated: May 31, 2022 at 6:42 PM CDT
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By Jesse Brooks, Kaitlin Rust and Andrew McMunn
The body of a man that went missing after a boat capsized at a Louisiana lake on Memorial Day has been recovered and identified according to authorities.

National
Amber Alerts for 2-month-old Amaya Hernandez and 9-year-old Eileen De Leon Ramos issued in...

Amber Alert canceled for 2 children from Louisiana 5sw3g

Updated: May 10, 2022 at 1:50 AM CDT
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By Jesse Brooks and Gray News staff
Amber Alerts had been issued for the two girls in both Louisiana and Mississippi.

National
Authorities say a confrontation between a heavily armed 21-year-old man and his father...

Father fatally shoots armed son during confrontation, sheriff says 6q692e

Updated: Mar. 29, 2022 at 11:26 PM CDT
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By Jesse Brooks and Gray News staff
The sheriff said the 21-year-old who was fatally shot has a history of unstable and violent behavior.

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