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A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims. Complete Story...
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.
The revival of an amusement park flooded by Hurricane Katrina has suffered a setback after the cable television network Nickelodeon said it has ended its relationship with a Louisiana company trying to redevelop the abandoned site in eastern New Orleans.
As New Orleans struggles to keep its recovery from Hurricane Katrina on track, it's facing one of its largest ever budget deficits, $68 million, and the prospect of higher fees for residents and forced furloughs for many city workers to address it.
Hurricane Katrina gave Ned Sublette a dramatic coda — and title — for his memoir.
On the morning the Walmart reopened this week in Pass Christian, rain canceled a small parade Mayor Chipper McDermott had planned, so folks stood inside the store and handed out gaudy Mardi Gras beads instead of throwing them from a float.
President Barack Obama is promising the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast that his administration "will not forget" them as they work to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
A day after an enthusiastic, almost-gushing crowd met President Barack Obama on his first visit to New Orleans since taking office, some in this still-suffering, hurricane-struck city wondered when platitudes and political speech would give way to greater progress.
President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll visit the Hurricane Katrina-damaged Gulf Coast by mid-October.
A former Gulfport mayor was sentenced to probation Friday in a plea deal on charges that he defrauded a program to help Hurricane Katrina victims rebuild their homes, allowing him and his wife to walk out of court with no prison time.
A federal jury on Thursday rejected a New Orleans family's assertions that the government-issued trailer they lived in after Hurricane Katrina exposed them to dangerous fumes, in the first of several trials that could lead to hundreds of similar claims being resolved.
A state appeals court has ordered the New Orleans police department to rehire an officer accused of using excessive force in an arrest caught on video several weeks after Hurricane Katrina.
For the first time since Hurricane Katrina left tens of thousands of families living in FEMA trailers, a federal jury heard allegations Monday that the government-issued shelters exposed Gulf Coast storm victims to hazardous formaldehyde fumes.
A federal judge has given final approval to a $20 million settlement of class-action lawsuits against several Louisiana levee boards. The suits were filed on behalf of about 500,000 homeowners whose property was damaged by Hurricane Katrina's flood waters.
An Associated Press photographer has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury probing the death of a man whose burned body was found in a car near a police station several weeks after Hurricane Katrina.
President Barack Obama marked the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday by pledging to make sure that turf wars and red tape don't slow the pace of the continuing recovery.
Louisiana's top prosecutor said Friday he will not reopen a probe into allegations of euthanasia at a hospital crippled by Hurricane Katrina, despite new statements from a doctor that he drugged a terminal patient to "get rid of her faster."
Just two days shy of the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, entertainer Jamie Foxx brought some music and laughter to New Orleans with his "Blame It" tour.
A subcontractor has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to bribe two Army Corps of Engineers consultants over bids to reconstruct levees after Hurricane Katrina.
Rent-A-Center spokesman Magic Johnson promises the company will give you “the respect you
A Louisiana man was convicted Wednesday of gunning down five teenagers in a grisly crime that prompted the governor to bring National Guard troops back to New Orleans to help curb violence in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Two computers were removed from the New Orleans Police Department during a search by the FBI as part of a probe into a deadly bridge shooting in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, officials said Monday.
The city of New Orleans has agreed to a settlement with a retired teacher who sued over his videotaped beating by police officers in the city's French Quarter several weeks after Hurricane Katrina.
Governors attending their national convention on Mississippi's Gulf Coast have seen signs of Hurricane Katrina recovery — glitzy casinos packed with tourists, new condominium towers rising along the beach, the major expansion of a bustling state port.
Weeks after Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans and worsened the medical plight of the city's poor, then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco said the publicly run Charity Hospital would not reopen, even though the military had scrubbed the building to medical-ready standards, the retired Army general who oversaw the work said.
Hurricane Katrina victims win damages over floodingThe US government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.
Food stamp fraud charges net 14 - LouisianaFourteen people from St. Mary and Iberia parishes, most of them state employees, were indicted in federal court last week in connection with alleged Food Stamp fraud following the 2005 and 2008 hurricanes.
I take offense at Michael Moore's attempt to facilitate the establishment's NWO agenda and ingratiate himself with the Obama administration,trying to draw us in to his mindset of subservience with the propaganda article he wrote:
MS Supreme Court to insurance companies: honor your policiesRemember Hurricane Katrina (as if you could). Four years after this catastrophe, insurance companies are still trying to not pay homeowners for the damage done to ther former homes.
Last night I watched Republican leader after leader slither up to the microphone and claim their supposed righteous disdain for President Obama "traipsing off to Denmark to lobby for the Olympics, while ignoring pressing matters at home: the tragedy in American Samoa, Healthcar …
Bill Moyers Journal: Rage on the Radio: Glenn Beckexcerpt: ""Here's one for the memory banks from Bill Moyers Journal, September 2008, talking about the rise of hate talk on right wing radio, and Glenn Beck saying he'd like to kill Michael Moore along with some other right wing screechers doing their best to incite violence in …
Well I bet nobody saw this coming. Bogged down by sinking approval numbers for the President, and a growing disdain among Americans for the democrat led senate, Charles Rangel has enacted the ever-so-popular liberal defense mechanism, the race card.
Doctor admits euthanizing patients during KatrinaIn a sign of his certainty the patient would die under the morphine overdose, Cook penciled in "Pronounced dead at" on the patient's chart and left it blank to be filled in later.
"Heck of a Job Brownie" To Speak At ConferenceWASHINGTON — Did we read that right? On the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals is holding its convention, featuring . . . Michael Brown , the FEMA director forced out of his job for his weak response to the hurricane.
The 2010 New Orleans Mayoral Elections: Who Will Take the Reins?This is an interesting question and it will be interesting to see what will become of the fate of New Orleans
The Further Pillage of New Orleans: Shady Bush Cronies Sold Us Faulty Pumpsexcerpt: "" This USA Today piece leaves out an important piece of the puzzle here. The company who sold the pumps was closely tied to the Bush family, at one time even employing Jeb Bush...""
How White Residents are Keeping Blacks Out of St. Bernard ParishThis is a great article about the disparities in housing and racism taking place during the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.
Pitt on mayoral run: 'I don't have a chance'Brad Pitt laughed off the prospect of running for mayor of New Orleans, as a grassroots movement there has suggested, saying, "I don't have a chance." He added jokingly: "I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform."
FBI seizes computers in Katrina shooting probeTwo computers were removed from the New Orleans Police Department during a search by the FBI as part of a probe into a deadly bridge shooting in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Losing Louisiana - Rising sea level will claim 10 percent of state by 2100Residents of Louisiana, take note: If engineers don't divert sediment-rich waters from the Mississippi River to help replenish a sinking river delta, about 10 percent of your state will slip beneath the waves by the end of this century.
Republicans hope General Motors is President Obama's Hurricane Katrina General Motors hopes that bankruptcy will make the struggling automaker stronger and more competitive. Republicans are hoping it will do the same for them.
Man and dog reunite, 4 years after KatrinaJessie Pullins is certain J.J. recognized him when the door to his dog cage swung open, reuniting them for the first time since Hurricane Katrina struck nearly four years ago. Pullins' quest to regain his dog is among those portrayed in a new PBS documentary.
Man and dog reunite, 4 years after KatrinaJessie Pullins is certain J.J. recognized him when the door to his dog cage swung open, reuniting them for the first time since Hurricane Katrina struck nearly four years ago. Pullins' quest to regain his dog is among those portrayed in a new PBS documentary.
Katrina Victims Will Not Have to Vacate TrailersHurricane Katrina victims around the Gulf Coast who were told to vacate their temporary trailers by the end of May will instead be allowed to buy them for $5 or less, White House officials announced on Wednesday.
Bush calls Clinton 'brother' as pair share stageFormer President George W. Bush called former President Bill Clinton "his brother" and the two rarely disagreed in their first-ever appearance together on stage.
Katrina Revisited... I'm reluctant to highlight just one anecdote from Robert Draper's GQ piece on Donald Rumsfeld, because there's an awful lot of information in the article that deserves to be read, but the story about Rumsfeld during the Hurricane Katrina crisis is remarkable.
Members of the Oregon National Guard's Counterdrug Support Program and the Salem Police's SWAT unit trained at the Rilea Training Site in Warrenton, Ore., May 5, in what organizers are calling a successful inter-agency training event.
Suitors line up to bid on Tribune Co.Gannett Co. Inc., the largest U.S. newspaper company, is pursuing a bid for rival Tribune Co., while Maurice Greenberg, the former chairman of the insurance giant American International Group, has also expressed interest in the company, according to media reports.
Dallas Police Department dropping police code for plain EnglishExcerpt: Catch a cop show over the past several decades and these strings of numbers barked over police radios might sound familiar: "1-Adam-12, a 4-15 fight." ..."We have a 9-11. Armed robbery in progress."
Katrina flood suit against Army Corps advancesA federal judge says a lawsuit blaming the Army Corps of Engineers for heavy flooding from Hurricane Katrina can proceed. The case is being watched by tens of thousands with pending damage claims.
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