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JENNA ROSS

Reporter · US

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Aug 30, 2026
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Jul 16, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · JENNA ROSS | Staff writer

    The distinctive ‘Yat’ accent is fading away. What might New Orleans lose with it? (opens the original)

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    It’s lunchtime at Rocky and Carlo’s in Chalmette, where the gravy is red, the bartender’s language is blue and the accent is Yat. Not a slogan on a T-shirt but a greeting between friends, former classmates and brothers who still meet most weeks for lunch. Larry Menesses, 74, and his brother Gene have been eating at this family-owned Sicilian joint for decades. When Menesses was stationed at Fort Knox, his fellow service members figured he was from New York. (“I don’t see where they get

  2. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · JENNA ROSS | Staff writer

    ‘A pull on my heart’: Why this Slidell woman joined Ukraine’s army (opens the original)

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    Nichole Robichaux was a real estate agent in Slidell. Now, she's a medic in Ukraine. Six months after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, her family welcomed a pair of refugees into their Louisiana home. She advocated for Ukraine in Washington, D.C. She studied the Ukrainian language. But she felt a deep calling — one she has trouble explaining, still — to do more. Last year, she traveled to Kharkiv to deliver medical supplies: bandages and splints, hand warmers and antibacterial ointment. She e

  3. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · JENNA ROSS | Staff writer

    These weekly, wheelie bike riders in New Orleans have a soft heart: ‘We’re all brothers’ (opens the original)

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    In a parking lot near City Park in New Orleans on a recent evening, just before the light would turn gold, the bikes were out and their wheels were up. Big wheel BMX bikes, street bikes and e-bikes with a dirt-bike feel. On them, kids, teens and adults; Black, White and Latino; from New Orleans, Kenner and even Biloxi, Mississippi. Some leaned on handlebars, chatting, while others popped casual wheelies, their slow speed itself a physical feat. When Tommy Richard spoke, just after 7 p.m., they q

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