New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell leaned on Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick in an attempt to help a controversial lieutenant’s shot at a promotion last fall, actions the Civil Service ...

Six months ago, LaToya Cantrell appeared to be in imminent legal peril. The New Orleans mayor’s former bodyguard, a city police officer, had been charged in July with federal crimes ...

The commission found Cantrell violated the Louisiana constitution and New Orleans Civil Service rules with her interference. The ruling came a month after Cantrell refused to answer questions on the ...