Kaitlin Rust
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Kaitlin Rust joined the Fox 8 News team in November 2020 as a reporter.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Kaitlin is enjoying her trek around the United States.
She's back down in the Bayou State after spending almost three years in Louisville, Kentucky reporting for Fox 8’s sister station WAVE 3.
Kaitlin started her career in Lake Charles after graduating from Rider University with a major in Digital Media and a minor in Political Science.
Obsessed with animals and music, Kaitlin can often be found spending time with her rabbit and two dogs or out dancing at a show.
She's excited to be in New Orleans and would love to tell your stories!
Feel free to email her with any ideas or just to say hello.
Updated: Nov. 20, 2022 at 4:30 PM CST
|By Ken Daley, Kaitlin Rust and Andrew McMunn
The dog's owners said they had only spent a short time in New Orleans when their vehicle and dog were stolen.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2022 at 6:28 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
His estranged wife told deputies the man threatened to burn their house down and kill himself, authorities said
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 11:34 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
More than 100,000 Hurricane Ida damage claims have been closed without payment by insurance companies as of June 2022.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 6:24 AM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust and Gray News staff
Damage from Hurricane Ida pushed the long-neglected building to the edge of collapse
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 11:03 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Florida-based insurer UPC will stop writing new policies in Louisiana on Jan. 1, 2023, after being downgraded Tuesday (Aug. 16).
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 10:59 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
As the city of New Orleans still faces a police manpower shortage, Carnival krewes want to know if they will be allowed to return to their traditional parade routes for next year’s Carnival season.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 4:40 PM CDT
|By Ken Daley and Kaitlin Rust
A hearing was set for Thursday to determine whether Jenee Pedesclaux will have bond set after allegedly stabbing her two children
Updated: Jul. 22, 2022 at 10:06 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
A fed-up French Quarter bartender gave us the video below, of a fight that escalated to gunfire Tuesday morning, an occurrence she says is becoming too frequent.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 10:15 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Entergy bills are strangling customers’ wallets across the state. An Avondale family finds it particularly egregious because their power has been disconnected from their home since Ida.
Updated: Jul. 18, 2022 at 9:34 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
In one Facebook group with more than 18,000 members, customers are sharing horror stories about their soaring electric bills.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 10:37 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
42,000 homeowners are looking for a new insurance policy as of Friday. The company, Southern Fidelity dropped them and now they have 60 days to find a new policy.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 10:35 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Friday, Louisiana’s three abortion clinics closed once again after a New Orleans judge did not extend a temporary restraining order on the state’s trigger laws banning abortion.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 10:49 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Friday, a New Orleans court hearing will determine if the State’s “trigger laws” banning abortion are unconstitutional.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 5:59 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust and Jordan Gartner
Police are investigating a deadly shooting in New Orleans that took the life of a National Guard member.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 10:49 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
The City Council is furious and moving fast to crack down on all aspects of the stunt driving we witnessed over the weekend.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2022 at 4:10 PM CDT
|By Jesse Brooks, Kaitlin Rust and FOX 8 Staff
Four people were wounded when gunfire broke out at a high school’s graduation on Southeastern Louisiana University’s campus Thurs., May 19.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2022 at 9:55 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
NOPD says the shooting happened around 2:30 a.m. outside of Big Daddy’s at the corner of Franklin and Royal in the Marigny.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2022 at 10:19 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
State Police say a woman texting and driving on Memorial Day cost a sanitation worker his leg when she crashed into the back of his garbage truck.
Updated: May. 31, 2022 at 6:42 PM CDT
|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.
Updated: May. 30, 2022 at 9:12 PM CDT
|By Jesse Brooks and Kaitlin Rust
The 31-foot twin inboard/outboard motorboat carried six people at the time it flipped and began sinking.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 1:36 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Louisiana Right to Life, along with some other prominent religious organizations, says they will not support House Bill 813 that is heading to the House floor this Thursday.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 7:15 PM CDT
|By Jesse Brooks and Kaitlin Rust
Police say that the suspect took the victim around 8 a.m. in the area of North Oak Street and West Dakota Street and the incident was reported to campus police at 10:52 a.m.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 10:38 PM CDT
|By Jesse Brooks, Kaitlin Rust and FOX 8 Staff
The Natchez Steamboat has sustained fire damage.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:32 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
It was the last place she ever thought she would have to fight off carjackers; stuck in slow-rolling lunchtime traffic on I-10 near the Superdome.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 11:00 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
The LSU freshman was on her way home for the weekend when she was killed in a crash on I-12 in Covington, Friday.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 9:23 AM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Although he still has to replace his window, he came up with a deterrent that chased away the would-be thief Friday night.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2022 at 10:44 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Some FOX 8 viewers report a hold of $175 after filling up at Exxon stations.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 10:26 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Arts and sciences converge in New Orleans East thanks to the Mackie brothers, both spearheading their own multi-million dollar projects near Read Boulevard.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 9:42 PM CST
|By Kaitlin Rust
Not only are all NOLA Public School students required to be fully vaccinated, everyone 5 years and up is required to have both shots to prove vaccination status, or a negative test when entering indoor spaces like bars and restaurants.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 1:34 PM CST
|By Kaitlin Rust and Gray News staff
It’s an eye-opener for some neighbors, but for many, this has been a fear for a while.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2022 at 10:41 PM CST
|By Kaitlin Rust
A Slidell man believes the dismembered woman police found in an Upper 9th Ward freezer Tuesday is his missing wife.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2021 at 10:25 PM CST
|By Kaitlin Rust
There is hope we may be able to keep many cases out of the hospital with two new FDA approved treatments, but experts fear they may not be widely available in time for this latest surge.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2021 at 11:38 AM CST
|By Kaitlin Rust
Shortened parade routes don’t necessarily mean fewer people in the Carnival season crowds.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2021 at 8:53 AM CST
|By Jesse Brooks, Kaitlin Rust and Gray News staff
The victim, Jonshel Alexander, 22, was around 11 years old when she was cast in Benh Zeitlin’s low-budget yet visually stunning full-length motion picture filmed in Montegut and areas around Terrebonne Parish.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2021 at 10:34 PM CST
|By Kaitlin Rust
The state celebrates the success of it’s temporary housing program, created because FEMA’s was moving too slow, but leaders in hard hit areas, like Lafourche, say there’s not much to tout.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2021 at 8:51 AM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Ochsner gave out its first doses of the COVID vaccine to children ages 5 to 11.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2021 at 9:57 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
One of the biggest names in gaming has chosen New Orleans for his new headquarters as the video game design industry is really starting to blossom across the region.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2021 at 10:14 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
It’s a massive project trying to get Grand Isle back up and running, but there is hope as some power and water return to small parts of the island.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 9:29 PM CDT
|By Natasha Robin and Kaitlin Rust
“The fire was in a very inaccessible place. So we needed to have enough firefighters to cover a large amount of area so it wouldn’t get out of control more than it already was,” said Michael Williams of the New Orleans Fire Dept.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 7:39 AM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
From Bourg to Chauvin, the devastation is immense and recovery isn’t looking like it will happen anytime soon.
Uptick in Mississippi poison control calls from people who take livestock dewormer to treat COVID-19
Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 at 10:31 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Mississippi’s Poison Control is reporting an alarming uptick in calls from people who took a drug bought at a feed store meant to deworm livestock.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2021 at 5:49 AM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
The Saints will be back in the Dome for the first time this year, but some season ticket holders are already looking for refunds.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2021 at 10:31 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
As New Orleans enacts the new requirement for proof of vaccination, phony cards are now added to the list of things law enforcement must seize.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2021 at 10:47 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Starting Monday, both employees and customers need to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to get into many New Orleans businesses.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2021 at 10:45 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
“This is something that we were worried about when I was in nursing school is that in 2020 there will be a big nursing shortage,” Ecoee Rooney, the President of the Louisiana Nursing Association said.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2021 at 10:34 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Ochsner, the largest health system in the state, says it will soon make it mandatory for all of its employees to have their COVID shots.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2021 at 7:47 AM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust and Gray News staff
An Uber driver was robbed at gunpoint by his own passenger Monday night next to Pontchartrain Park, and it briefly cost the driver his job.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2021 at 10:25 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
An uber driver robbed at gunpoint by his own passenger Monday night next to Pontchartrain Park.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2021 at 10:51 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
A 13-year-old girl has been reunited with her parents after being rescued from an alleged sex-trafficking situation in Terrytown. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office alleges the young girl was forced to have sex more than 10 times, arranged online by a Texas man and woman.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2021 at 10:25 PM CDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Health officials are concerned with a troubling uptick in COVID cases and hospitalizations as the highly contagious Delta variant becomes the main strain across the state.
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