The New Orleans Fire Department showed up to put out a fire on Harmony street in the Garden District on the evening of July 23.

As per new reports, an associate of singer R. Kelly took a plea deal today (April 19) in a Brooklyn federal court for trying to silence Azriel Cleary -- a witness in Kelly's racketeering case and one of the singer's ex-girlfriends and sexual assault victims -- by burning down her SUV back in June.

Taija Russell, 29, was arrested last Tuesday after she torched the home of an unnamed man on August 4 because he never answered the door.