Hurricane Katrina
Hosts: Super Bowl will bring Katrina closure to New Orleans – USA TODAY –
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Hosts: Super Bowl will bring Katrina closure to New Orleans
USA TODAY By Tom Pedulla, USA TODAY INDIANAPOLIS — It has taken years for New Orleans to move on after the death and destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, 2005. Local officials hope the arrival of Super Bowl XLVII next February will finally allow … Super Bowl to bring closure to New Orleans? Super Bowl 2013 Location: Big Game Returns To New Orleans |
Hurricane Katrina Police Shooting On Danziger Bridge: Mistrial Declared In … – Huffington Post –
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Hurricane Katrina Police Shooting On Danziger Bridge: Mistrial Declared In …
Huffington Post By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS, Jan 27 (Reuters) – A federal judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the case of a retired police detective accused of conspiring to cover up wrongdoing in fatal police shootings in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane … Officer in Katrina shootings probe to be retried |
Hurricane Bowl: Long Beach team tops in 5 states – MiamiHerald.com –
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Hurricane Bowl: Long Beach team tops in 5 states
MiamiHerald.com Officials said it was the biggest group of Hurricane Bowl contestants since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. The quiz contest formally known as the Central Gulf Coast Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl has been held at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory's … Long Beach HS science students beat teams from Fla, Ala, La, Miss, Tenn for … Top high school science students compete in Hurricane Bowl |
Police detective's trial opens old Katrina wounds – Reuters –
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Police detective's trial opens old Katrina wounds
Reuters By Kathy Finn | NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A New Orleans homicide detective conspired with other police officers to cover up the fatal shootings of two civilians and wounding of four others in the days after Hurricane Katrina, according to court testimony … Last officer in Katrina shootings heading to trial |
New Orleans police reform by decree: An editorial – NOLA.com –
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New Orleans police reform by decree: An editorial
NOLA.com So far 16 current or former officers have been found guilty in federal court of abuses committed around Hurricane Katrina. AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteUS Attorney General Eric Holder said a consent decree requiring police reforms will create a … |
Man gets prison for FEMA fraud after Hurricane Katrina – Atlanta Journal Constitution –
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Man gets prison for FEMA fraud after Hurricane Katrina
Atlanta Journal Constitution By Angel K. Brooks A man who had already moved to Georgia from New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina struck the city but fraudulently collected funds intended for victims of the 2005 storm was sentenced to prison Thursday, the US Attorney's Office … McCoy explores vodoun vévé symbols in post-Katrina New Orleans |
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FEMA: FEMA Grant Helps Restore New Orleans' Katrina-Damaged Archives
7thSpace Interactive (press release) The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced today approximately $1.7 million in public assistance funding to restore New Orleans Notarial Archives' book volumes and historical records damaged during Hurricane Katrina. As a governmental agency … |
Romantic New Orleans: The Big Easy casts its spell – USA TODAY –
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Romantic New Orleans: The Big Easy casts its spell
USA TODAY By Laura Bly, USA TODAY Considered one of the best-preserved collections of historic Southern mansions in the country, the Garden District escaped flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. By Laura Bly, USA TODAY Considered one of the best-preserved … |
With Levees Rated 'Unacceptable,' Officials Along the Mississippi Fight Back – New York Times –
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With Levees Rated 'Unacceptable,' Officials Along the Mississippi Fight Back
New York Times Local officials said the corps, shaken by the widespread destruction from levee collapses after Hurricane Katrina, had raised its safety standards to unreasonable levels, overstated the risk and heaped millions of dollars of unnecessarily expensive … |
'Big Easy' having a ball with Globetrotters – My West Texas –
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'Big Easy' having a ball with Globetrotters
My West Texas Then after playing in junior college and at Southeastern Louisiana, he and his family had to evacuate his hometown of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. His dream was to play professional basketball, but "Big Easy" never really thought about playing … |