Mykal Vincent
Digital Content Executive Producer
New Orleans, La.
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Mykal Vincent started his digital news career in Baton Rouge and has moved to New Orleans in January of 2020 as the Digital News Supervisor for FOX 8.
Contact Mykal via email at mykal.vincent@fox8live.com.
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La. woman accused of using aunt’s debit card for 136 DoorDash orders held on preset $18 million bond
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 10:27 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Investigators say Maili Morris made 136 purchases using her 73-year-old aunt’s debit card, which she had linked to her personal DoorDash account.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 5:01 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent and Jordan Gartner
A woman is accused of using her aunt’s debit card to make hundreds of fraudulent purchases.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 1:22 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
NBA YoungBoy says it troubles him to know fans might have been negatively influenced by his music and is planning a Mormon baptism.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 11:57 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Louisiana football fans will have something to cheer for no matter which team they’re pulling for in Super Bowl LVII.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 4:24 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
A new complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice alleges nursing home owner Bob Dean swept millions of dollars from the homes into his personal banking accounts.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 2:43 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Christian Robinson, 25, is being held on a half-million dollar bond after he allegedly killed his aunt by stepping on her throat until officers were forced to taze him.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 12:12 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Detectives say Robert Rheams, 51, was armed with a shovel and a lug wrench when he broke into the home of a woman and her two young children.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 10:31 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans was lit in blue and red in honor of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 12:09 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent and Gray News staff
Pieces of the helicopter that crashed off the Louisiana coast have been located, but officials said there’s still no sign of the passengers.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 10:04 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Crews are searching for four passengers who were aboard a helicopter that went down about 10 miles off the coast of Plaquemines Parish.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 12:37 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
King cake is not a year-round pastry, allegedly.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 5:15 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
While the number of tornadoes in any single year fluctuates, the average number over a ten-year span has been steadily increasing in Louisiana since 1950.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 12:21 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Authorities in Mississippi have identified the slain officers as Sgt. Steven Robin and Officer Branden Estorffe.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 3:38 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent and David Jones
An autopsy found the baby suffered from several severe injuries. The parish coroner determined the cause of death to be homicide by blunt force trauma.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 10:35 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Zion Williamson put on a show Friday night as the New Orleans Pelicans soared to their sixth straight win with a 128-117 victory over the Phoenix Suns.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 4:59 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
YoungBoy Never Broke Again has partnered with Amazon to launch his own radio show, according to social media posts from the rapper’s team.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 7:26 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
The family of former Saints defensive end Glenn Foster, Jr. says a funeral mishandled his brain, preventing it from being tested for CTE.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 11:56 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Mark Ingram is likely to miss the rest of the season with an MCL injury, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2022 at 11:15 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent and Gray News staff
The suspect was booked on two counts of armed robbery.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 9:34 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Cassidy would be the third Republican to enter the race for the governor’s mansion.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 4:05 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
In an interview with The Athletic, Bruce Arians admitted to barking at officials and Lattimore before things turned ugly.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 3:23 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Saints running back Alvin Kamara is unlikely to face any disciplinary actions this season after a Las Vegas judge set a March 1 trial date in connection to an alleged assault outside of a nightclub in February.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 11:38 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
A Houston-area teacher has been found “alive and well” in New Orleans after a months-long search spanning two states.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 5:34 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
The Bogalusa Lumberjacks will end their 2022 football season early after Albany High School informed them they will be forfeiting the season finale over safety concerns.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 3:28 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Dennis Allen said even with Winston cleared to play, the Saints’ offense has been efficient with Dalton under center.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2022 at 2:31 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
In the suit, attorneys for Darnell Greene say Alvin Kamara “brutally beat” their client “without justifiable provocation,” causing a disfiguring facial injury.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 at 6:51 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent and Andrew McMunn
A man whose body was found dismembered in Louisiana in 2016 has been identified after DNA samples linked him to a foot found years later in 2019.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2022 at 4:54 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
A man whose body was found in St. Tammany Parish in 2016 has been identified after DNA samples linked him to a foot found in Biloxi years later.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 12:02 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
After weeks of criticism and legal reviews, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell says she will pay the city back nearly $30,000 in first-class flight upgrades.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 5:12 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Officials are searching for an 18-year-old accused of breaking into a home in Hammond, killing a man and critically wounding his 12-year-old daughter, Chief Jimmy Travis says.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 11:12 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Mike Evans is appealing a one-game suspension for shoving Marshon Lattimore.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 1:19 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
A New Orleans Saints player has been arrested in Jefferson Parish, jail records indicate.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 8:12 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Jon Batiste, the multiple Grammy Award-winning artist, is stepping away from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert after seven seasons.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 10:38 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
In a tweet Tuesday morning (Aug. 9), the Saints announced they will wear the new helmets for the Oct. 2 game against the Minnesota Vikings in London.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 11:29 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
A Houma man was arrested for allegedly catching too many sharks and having meth in his possession, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 10:26 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Arsenio Wells carjacked a man who was trying to pump gas, and was captured after police spotted him at another gas station in the stolen vehicle.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 11:58 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
The NFL said the Dolphins also had “impermissible communications” with Sean Payton's agent about becoming Miami’s head coach before he announced his retirement.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 11:22 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
For one Louisiana groom, the pressure was mounting and the decision was too much for one man to bear without the consult of his groomsmen.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2022 at 11:06 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Alvin Kamara was at practice, not in a Las Vegas courtroom, Monday morning for a scheduled hearing dealing with his off-season arrest.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 8:24 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
A child accidentally overdosed on heroin in his father's vehicle, officials say.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2022 at 10:55 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
NFL fans both stateside and abroad waited for hours in queues of hundreds of thousands of people before being told tickets were sold out.
Updated: Jul. 25, 2022 at 11:38 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
The founder of Raising Cane’s is buying a $2 Mega Millions ticket for all 50,000 of his employees as the jackpot grows to the fourth-largest ever.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 10:21 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Johnson’s ruling clears the way for clinics to continue operating temporarily until the lawsuit challenging the state’s near-total ban on abortions is resolved.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 7:33 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Just when you thought you’d seen it all, a Baton Rouge rapper punched a professional wrestler on national television.
Updated: Jul. 18, 2022 at 3:25 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Police say Czar Nicholas is accused of shooting a woman after a domestic dispute. He was previously arrested and released after allegedly strangling a dating partner in 2020.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 12:55 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
After two hours of deliberation, a federal jury in Los Angeles found NBA YoungBoy, real name Kentrell Gaulden, not guilty of felony gun possession charges, according to Nancy Dillon of Rolling Stone magazine.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 8:45 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
A judge ruled to exclude NBA YoungBoy's lyrics as evidence that he knew there was a pistol in his car at the time of his "blindsided" arrest in Los Angeles.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 1:36 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
Pelicans guard Devonte Graham was arrested for drunk driving, according to police in North Carolina
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 11:35 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
The death has been ruled an accident.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 1:28 PM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent
A New Orleans art gallery is closing its French Quarter shop permanently due to crime concerns.
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