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Have you ever wondered what could have been, if New Orleans and the federal government had been prepared for a devastating Hurricane such as Katrina? How many lives, structures and businesses could have been saved?
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The Essence Music Festival wraps up its 14th year with musical performances Sunday in the Louisiana Superdome, headlined by Grammy Award-winner Mary J. Blige and...
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A mobile museum highlighting the major contributions of African-Americans in the history of the United States will make its debut in downtown New Orleans today as part...
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Particleboard appears to be one of the main sources of potentially harmful fumes in government-issued travel trailers that have housed thousands of Gulf Coast storm...
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A federal appeals court has thrown out a $785,000 jury award to a woman who blamed her mother’s cancer death on contamination from a wood treatment plant in...
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Although people tend to call anything in a V-shaped glass a cocktail, the drink traditionally is required to have spirits, sugar and bitters. Some other facts about the...
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Temporary farm markets deployed in parts of New Orleans recovering from Hurricane Katrina have given residents access to fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and seafood.
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The goal to raise levees and build large-scale flood defenses around this flood-torn city could be delayed indefinitely because of congressional demands that Louisiana...
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Rapper Lil Wayne is the latest addition to the lineup for this year’s Voodoo Experience in the rapper’s native New Orleans.
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Rapper Lil Wayne is the latest addition to the lineup for this year’s Voodoo Experience in the rapper’s native New Orleans.
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One of the nation’s largest insurance companies is lobbying Congress for permission to sell policies that cover damage from both wind and flood water, a plan...
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Revius Ortique Jr., the first black justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, has died of complications from a stroke. He was 84.
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A sister, brother and niece of indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson pleaded not guilty in federal court to fraud charges seperate from the congressman’s case.
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Just as south Louisiana’s citrus growers are starting to recover from Hurricane Katrina, they have a new threat: a fatal citrus disease that has infected...
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The sister of a Louisiana congressman has pleaded guilty to helping conceal a crime.
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A New Orleans congressman who is facing trial on federal corruption charges says he will seek re-election to a fifth term.
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Frank Keys Jr. faces up to 40 years in prison after he was found cruising down the highway with more than 200 grams of heroin in the diaper he was wearing, federal...
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Frank Keys Jr. faces up to 40 years in prison after he was found cruising down the highway with more than 200 grams of heroin in the diaper he was wearing, federal...
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Frank Keys Jr. faces up to 40 years in prison after he was found cruising down the highway with more than 200 grams of heroin in the diaper he was wearing, federal...
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Frank Keys Jr. faces up to 40 years in prison after he was found cruising down the highway with more than 200 grams of heroin in the diaper he was wearing, federal...
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Army Corps of Engineers officials did not violate any rules when they allowed defective pumps to be installed after Hurricane Katrina, according to a report by the...
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Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif, the “K” factor seems to have been shifted from the small screen to Bollywood. Both the actresses are beautiful, talented...
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Temporary farm markets deployed in parts of New Orleans recovering from Hurricane Katrina have given residents access to fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and seafood.
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. is lobbying Congress for permission to expand its homeowner policies to include flood coverage. The vast majority of flood insurance...
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One of the nation’s largest insurance companies is lobbying Congress for permission to sell policies that cover damage from both wind and flood water, a plan...
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Recently a survey by one of the UK-based international magazine FHM voted that Katrina is most Sexiest women live on this planet.
She is making the buzz in so less...
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State Farm Insurance Cos. won’t renew homeowners policies within 1,000 feet of the beach on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina in...
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A long way from Iraq and the war debate in Washington, Herman Moore sat outside a tent in a downtown New Orleans homeless camp, trying to make sense of a proposal that...
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Nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina, shifting demographics and the loss of community touchstones have rendered tight-knit St. Bernard Parish almost...
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AP, Birmingham
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood wrongly conspired with prominent trial attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs to skirt a court order in a case involving...
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A federal judge in Alabama says Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood conspired with prominent trial attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs to skirt a court...
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AP, New Orleans
New Orleans is giving residents until July to vacate federally issued trailers intended as temporary housing after Hurricane Katrina.
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Cleveland Stampley grinned as he locked the door to his FEMA trailer one last time. Out front, a case worker’s pickup truck waited to take him to his new home at...
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The federal government has plenty of reasons to move hundreds of families out of trailers they have occupied since Hurricane Katrina: the start of a new hurricane...
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A former Army Corps of Engineers consultant and a dirt subcontractor were indicted Thursday on bribery charges stemming from an investigation into levee work after...
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The Senate agreed Tuesday to write off _ and hand over to taxpayers _ more than $17 billion in debt that a FEMA flood insurance program accumulated after being...
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The Army Corps of Engineers can be held liable for flood damage caused by a “hurricane highway,” a navigation channel that is believed to have funneled...
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A federal judge on Monday dismissed claims of fraud in a key Hurricane Katrina lawsuit that accused State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. of using different engineering...
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A former councilman from a New Orleans suburb pleaded guilty Thursday to seeking kickbacks from a subcontractor doing cleanup work after Hurricane Katrina.
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Imagine that your home was reduced to mold-covered wood framing by Hurricane Katrina.
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This is a Sept. 21, 2005 file photo of a Gulfport, Miss., home, whose resident, a Hurricane Katrina victim, seeks a visit by the State Farm insurance adjuster. On Wednesday, June 11, 2008, State Farm Insurance Cos., said it would not renew the homeowners...
