Tues. 8:41 a.m.: New Orleans’ Carnival season marks Fat Tuesday with celebrities and pretend monarchs

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ Carnival season is nearing its “Fat Tuesday” climax, with the last lavish Mardi Gras parades set to roll through historic neighborhoods while narrow streets of the old French Quarter host a raucous, continuous street party of revelers overflowing its bars and restaurants. Two of the city’s favorite parades — the processions of Rex, King of Carnival and the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club — were set to roll this morning on major thoroughfares. Monday night featured the parade of the Krewe of Orpheus,...