This year's colleen is Julia Nicosia, a student at Holyoke Community College. She will be joined by her court.

Some New Orleanians might be able to catch a cabbage on the way to the polls on March 29. The Irish Channel St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been rescheduled to roll on election day after its original outing was canceled by predictions of severe weather, the group announced on Thursday.

Dozens of deportees from the United States were aboard a flight that landed in Haiti from Miami on Tuesday. The plane arrived in Cap-Haïtien, in the north of the country, with 46 passengers, 25 of whom were convicted felons, according to a Haitian government source. (AP Video shot by Gerard Maxineau)