{"id":108392,"date":"2025-01-05T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T00:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/new-orleans-saints-nfl-announce-1m-donation-to-bourbon-street-victims\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T00:03:22","slug":"new-orleans-saints-nfl-announce-1m-donation-to-bourbon-street-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/new-orleans-saints-nfl-announce-1m-donation-to-bourbon-street-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints, NFL announce $1M donation to Bourbon Street victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-04\/Getty_010425_NewOrleans.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Chris Graythen\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW ORLEANS) &#8212; The New Orleans Saints and the NFL announced Saturday that they will donate $1 million to the victims of the New Year&#8217;s Day truck ramming attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 people and injured dozens of others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our community has experienced an unimaginable tragedy and our collective hearts are broken as we mourn for the victims and survivors on the New Year&#8217;s Day terror attack in New Orleans,&#8221; Saints owner Gayle Benson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The team will be working with the Greater New Orleans Foundation (GNOF) and United Way to help distribute $500,000 to organizations that are providing support to the victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL Foundation, the league&#8217;s philanthropic arm, said it would match the team&#8217;s donation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NFL is committed to standing with the resilient community of New Orleans during this difficult time,&#8221; Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday, 13 of the 14 victims have been publicly identified. Their ages range from 18 to 63, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Graythen\/Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) &#8212; The New Orleans Saints and the NFL announced Saturday that they will donate $1 million to the victims of the New Year&#8217;s Day truck ramming attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 people and injured dozens of others. &#8220;Our community has experienced an unimaginable<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/new-orleans-saints-nfl-announce-1m-donation-to-bourbon-street-victims\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}