Six months in, Chief Anne Kirkpatrick has tamped down violent crime, moved the department’s move to shiny new downtown digs, tasted crawfish and launched two viral NOPD mascots, one official (Patch the mini horse) and one decidedly not (the evidence room’s stoned rats).
Sometime between Taliese Fuaga’s junior and senior year of high school, his father, Sau Fuaga, dropped him off with offensive and defensive line guru Faipea Avaava at Athletic Edge Performance, and he had a message for the coach.
For years, car crashes on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge have plagued commuters, sometimes holding up traffic for hours.
