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A federal grand jury has indicted four New Orleans police officers and two former officers accused of civil rights violations and covering up the investigation of the fatal shootings of unarmed civilians on a bridge in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina...
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There really is a float house in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. It is actually designed so that if the floods ever come again, it snaps off its foundation and floats like a giant raft...
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Habitat has begun investigating as many as 50 post-Katrina homes that used the allegedly American-made product. Most of the targeted homes are in Musicians’ Village, which was largely bankrolled by Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis in an attempt to bring musicians back to the city after the hurricane. But some are in other New Orleans neighborhoods.
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Hurricane Katrina's deluge was Biblical. When it hit Louisiana and Mississippi the morning of August 29, 2005, the storm caused fearsome destruction. Then the disaster grew worse. The levees ? the man-made walls built to protect New Orleans from the water surrounding it ? failed. Their collapse flooded 80 percent of the city. By the time the waters receded and the survivors regrouped, Katrina, and then Hurricane Rita, had claimed more than 1,400 lives and the dreams of hundreds of thousands.
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The Lindy Boggs Medical Center, abandoned after Hurricane Katrina, has been purchased by a Catholic church-affiliated nonprofit that plans to put it back into service offering a number of medical services.
The plan is based on the model of St. Luke's Medical Center, a smaller facility that St. Margaret's opened earlier this year in New Orleans.
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Chile's new president is looking to New Orleans and its recovery after Hurricane Katrina for lessons to help him lead the South American nation's own comeback from a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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It's been more than four years since tens of thousands of students from Louisiana and other parts of the Gulf Coast landed in some of Texas' public schools after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their homes, their cities, and their schools. Most of those kids wound up in big city districts like Houston and Dallas, and many have remained there since.
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Ramblin' Man: Full-time RV Life « Reflections Of Louisiana...
I left the State Park Campground and headed east on U. S. Highway 90 Business, crossing the Mississippi River at New Orleans. About 5 miles later I picked up Interstate 10 heading east (not wanting to drive on U.S. Highway 90 in heavy New Orleans traffic) and about 6 miles later got on U.S. Highway 90 heading east.
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Jurors heard testimony Tuesday by Associated Press Television News producer Rich Matthews, whose crew was filming an arrest in the city's French Quarter several weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005...
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A former New Orleans police detective has pled guilty to helping cover up the fatal shootings of two people by police after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005…
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