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FEMA trailers are temporary manufactured houses given to the victims of hurricane Katrina and Rita. One such infamous FEMA trailer named ‘Armadillo’ was converted by MIT students and faculty into a vertical and mobile community garden. Armadillo..
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Brad Pitt surely deserves to be there in the green celebs’ list. Well, you may or may not agree to it. Still his foundation, Make It Right, makes him proud in...
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High winds from a possible tornado injured three people and damaged nearly two dozen homes Monday in southern Louisiana, a day after severe thunderstorms across the...
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Dr. John sat quietly behind the keyboard, still 90 minutes away from his second gig of the week at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
made popular May 3 2009
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Hot Club of New Orleans was on stage at Economy Hall tuning up before its set at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. In the big black truck behind the tent, a...
made popular May 2 2009
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The rock group Bon Jovi is slated to make its debut at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
made popular May 2 2009
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Blues singer and pianist Marcia Ball had thousands of people on their feet, dancing and cheering, as she played “Party Town” to the New Orleans Jazz and...
made popular May 1 2009
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Washboard Chaz, the Jambalaya Cajun Band and a host of jazz and brass bands are slated to perform Friday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
made popular May 1 2009
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Jazz crooner Tony Bennett handed out dozens of new instruments Thursday to students at a charter school founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping the tubas,...
made popular Apr 30 2009
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Rock musician Ben Harper and country singer Emmylou Harris take the stage for the second half of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
made popular Apr 30 2009
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Rapper Lil Wayne is suing the producer of a song he performed that allegedly sampled another singer’s work without permission.
made popular Apr 28 2009
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The farm lobby is using President Barack Obama’s easing of some travel restrictions to Cuba as an opportunity to push for increased sales of rice, meat,...
made popular Apr 28 2009
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Louisiana State Police say Casey Aldridge, the father of actress Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby, has been injured in an early morning one-vehicle crash.
made popular Apr 26 2009
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Cajun singer Wayne Toups and his Zydecajun band picked their accordions and guitars while thousands enthusiastically stomped, clapped, swayed and danced _ some doing...
made popular Apr 26 2009
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Thousands gathered under blue skies Saturday to hear the music of neo-soul artist Erykah Badu, who took the stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival burning...
made popular Apr 26 2009
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Big Sam’s Funky Nation, one of New Orleans’ most energetic brass bands, had a crowd of thousands on its feet at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival...
made popular Apr 25 2009
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Big Sam’s Funky Nation, one of New Orleans’ most energetic brass bands, had a crowd of thousands on its feet at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival...
made popular Apr 25 2009
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A dive bomber that had ditched in Lake Michigan on a training run in 1944 was brought to land Friday for restoration in Florida for the National World War II Museum in...
made popular Apr 25 2009
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The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival opened Friday with a salute to its roots and a tribute to the late gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.
made popular Apr 24 2009
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Experts who studied flooding brought on by Hurricane Katrina say New Orleans could be made safer by elevating more homes, building stronger levees and abandoning...
made popular Apr 24 2009
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It’s opening day of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and trumpeter-composer Wynton Marsalis is set to take the stage.
made popular Apr 24 2009
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Experts who studied flooding brought on by Hurricane Katrina say New Orleans could be made safer by elevating more homes, building stronger levees and abandoning...
made popular Apr 24 2009
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Lucille Franz lost her home and her sister in the flooding that follwed Hurricane Katrina. She blames the Army Corps of Engineers.
made popular Apr 20 2009
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More than three years after Katrina stirred up the waters and washed out levees along a 75-mile, man-made shipping channel dubbed “hurricane highway,” a...
made popular Apr 19 2009
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Jurors shouldn’t have awarded money to a south Louisiana couple for their allegation that an insurance company acted in bad faith when it denied their homeowner...
made popular Mar 12 2009
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A helicopter tour Friday of Mississippi’s coast convinced Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that the area appears to be on a faster track to recovery...
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Disturbed by what they saw on a bus ride through a city still bearing Hurricane Katrina’s scars, two members of President Barack Obama’s cabinet pledged...
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Two members of President Barack Obama’s cabinet got a firsthand look Thursday at the progress that’s been made since Hurricane Katrina _ and the work that...
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Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weekend, leaving behind a city still...
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Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weekend, leaving behind a city still...
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President Barack Obama said Friday that Gulf Coast residents still struggling to rebuild three years after Hurricane Katrina “have not always received the support...
made popular Feb 20 2009
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A judge incorrectly dismissed several insurance companies from a lawsuit accusing insurers of overbilling the federal government for Hurricane Katrina’s flood...
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A federal appeals court has ruled a Louisiana hotel chain wasn’t obligated to cover the relocation expenses incurred by immigrant workers recruited to work in New...
made popular Feb 12 2009
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A doctor accused but never formally charged with giving four patients lethal doses of drugs in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is asking the state to pay her legal...
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Federal prosecutors in Ohio say they’ve charged more than a dozen people with bilking the government out of thousands of dollars intended to help victims of...
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The mayor of a Mississippi city hit hard by Hurricane Katrina has been indicted after federal officials say he filed a false claim for disaster assistance.
made popular Jan 28 2009
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid to hold the federal government liable for the deaths of three elderly people during Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath.
made popular Jan 22 2009
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A new list released by former President Bill Clinton is providing a look at major donors to the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort.
made popular Dec 18 2008
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An $849 million Hurricane Katrina recovery program hobbled by red tape and the national credit crunch will seek to issue rebuilding money directly to small landlords...
made popular Dec 17 2008
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An $849 million Hurricane Katrina recovery program, hobbled by red tape and the national credit crunch, will seek to issue rebuilding money directly to small landlords...
made popular Dec 17 2008
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In this Aug. 4, 2008, file photo, steps that once led to the home of a neighbor of Geneva Stanford are all that remain of the house in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans. Stanford’s home is in the background. The economic stimulus signed by President...
