On Saturday, friends and family gathered to release balloons in remembrance of Elijah Ellis who, according to his family, was another recent victim in an act of violence in Indianapolis.

Though commonly used for celebration and remembrance, wayward foil balloons have continued to cause preventable widespread power outages in New Orleans, among other utility and public safety issues.

She was checking 12 of the animals in a field in nearby Ludham when she found 10 balloons, carrying messages of remembrance, and one of them was in a calf's mouth. She said if she had not ...