By MARK GUARINO | Reuters NEW ORLEANS | Thu May 16, 2013 5:03pm EDT (Reuters) - Police on Thursday arrested and charged the second of two street-gang-member brothers suspected of shooting into a New Orleans parade on Mother's Day and wounding 20 people. Shawn Scott, 24, [...]

By MARK GUARINO | Reuters NEW ORLEANS | Tue May 14, 2013 5:44pm EDT (Reuters) - A Mother's Day shooting in New Orleans marred a century-old tradition: The second line, a community parade designed to strengthen pride in hardscrabble neighborhoods, residents said. Police are seeking 19-year-old [...]

By Mark Guarino NEW ORLEANS | Mon May 13, 2013 5:59pm EDT (Reuters) - New Orleans police on Monday released photos that they said show a suspect in the shooting at a Mother's Day parade in which 19 people, including two children, were wounded. New Orleans [...]

By MARK GUARINO | Reuters NEW ORLEANS | Mon May 13, 2013 11:54pm EDT (Reuters) - New Orleans police on Monday identified a suspect in connection with a shooting at a Mother's Day parade that injured 19 people, including two children, as residents expressed outrage over [...]

CHICAGO | Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:08pm EST By MARK GUARINO | Reuters CHICAGO (Reuters) - To help decorate the White House for the Christmas season this year, President Barack Obama turned to an artist from his hometown. David Lee Csicsko, a Chicago mosaic artist who [...]

By MARK GUARINO | Reuters NEW ORLEANS | Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:58pm EDT (Reuters) - New Orleans, once crisscrossed by sprawling streetcar lines, is embracing anew the rumbling reminder of the city's storied and elegant past by restoring old lines and seeking to build new [...]

By MARK GUARINO | Reuters CHICAGO | Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:25pm EST (Reuters) - Music that went silent nearly 40 years ago on an historic stretch of Chicago's celebrated Michigan Avenue is poised to return, thanks to an unlikely mix of rock stars, politicians and [...]

By MARK GUARINO | Reuters NEW ORLEANS | Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:01pm EST (Reuters) - A rash of murders has City Hall on the defensive just as Mardi Gras season is getting under way, a time when the talk of the town is usually focused [...]

Wed, Dec 21 2011 By MARK GUARINO | Reuters NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Developers and business owners are flocking to New Orleans, thanks to factors that can be traced back to Hurricane Katrina, an event that shook the old ways of doing business in the city [...]

Thu, Dec 15 2011 By MARK GUARINO | Reuters NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A city policy involving demolitions, inspections, community meetings and Saturday morning elbow grease is reviving New Orleans neighborhoods at a faster rate than most expected after Hurricane Katrina put 80 percent of the [...]