After retiring from the seafood business at 66, he threw himself into mentoring children and rescuing addicts.

In an arrest affidavit, Williams said one of the inmates who escaped had threatened to “shank” him if he did not turn off the ...

For crawfish in New Orleans, that was Scramuzza. He introduced a generation to crawfish back when the idea of a boil was a ...

Funeral services and a second line parade were held at Lake Lawn Funeral Home. “You know it is a tough loss at any time, at ...

According to former FBI supervisory special agent, the 10 violent criminals who escaped from a New Orleans jail last Friday ...

Al Scramuzza, who first popularized eating crawfish back in the early 1950s, died at his home in Metairie last Sunday after a ...

A maintenance worker shut off water at the jail, allowing the inmates to remove a toilet and sink fixture from a cell wall, ...

Ten men who were incarcerated in a New Orleans jail broke out Friday in an audacious overnight escape that the local sheriff says may have involved members of their own department, utilizing facility ...

a second creature came along that was pretty much the opposite: a swaggering, wide-smiling showman who got famous boiling and selling the first. This second creature was Al Scramuzza.

New Orleans’ very own “Crawfish King”, Al Scramuzza has died at the age of 97. Scramuzza earned his crown being the first ...