New Orleans police said Thursday they are investigating the slaying of a 25-year-old San Francisco community activist found shot in the head in a hurricane-battered part of the city.

New Orleans prosecutors are dropping manslaughter charges against the last two Bourbon Street bouncers accused in the death of a visiting Georgia college student.

Federal officials will investigate the fatal shootings that took place on a New Orleans bridge following Hurricane Katrina.

Saints cornerback Randall Gay was scratched from Sunday’s lineup as New Orleans hosted the San Francisco 49ers.

Most of the men in the 2 1/2-ton truck had embarked on the grim hunt for bodies in the wreckage of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. On Sunday, they prepared to risk their lives for a similar search in their own backyards.

A single scrap metal company was responsible for about 70 barges and ships that floated loose in a major New Orleans canal during Hurricane Gustav, with at least a few threatening floodwalls and a bridge, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

With powerful Hurricane Ike still hundreds of miles away and on an uncertain course, residents on these low-lying islands weighed evacuation orders Sunday, perhaps a hint that Gulf Coast residents as far away as Texas and New Orleans may be not heed similar calls to leave.

Javier Arenas returned a punt 87 yards for a touchdown and No. 13 Alabama held on Saturday for a shaky 20-6 win over Tulane, forced out of New Orleans a week ago by the threat of Hurricane Gustav.

The path of Hurricane Gustav offered New Orleans a reprieve, but 80 miles away where utilities say the devastation was the worst they have ever seen, the storm offered nothing but punishment.