New Orleans breathes easier
NEW ORLEANS—In the end, it was just a glancing blow. And for that, the Big Easy let out a big sigh of relief. A weakened Hurricane Gustav blew into southern...
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Gustav bears down on Gulf Coast
NEW ORLEANS — With Hurricane Gustav speeding toward New Orleans from one direction, frightened area residents jammed highways out of town in the other on Sunday, fleeing ahead of a...
Gustav roars through gulf; hundreds of thousands flee
NEW ORLEANS—With a monster hurricane aimed straight at Louisiana's Gulf Coast and memories of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster seared into their souls, hundreds of thousands of residents and tourists...
Storm is called Gustav, but New Orleans hears ‘Katrina’
NEW ORLEANS — They had to cut short the funerals for the final seven victims of the last catastrophic hurricane so that officials could rush off to begin a massive...
Good news and bad news on New Orleans
Three years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and much of the surrounding area, the city's population is back to 72 percent of its prestorm count of 450,000, the unemployment...
Katrina ravaged a city but revived the music
When Hurricane Katrina devastated this city three years ago and scattered more than a million residents across the country, hundreds of its fabled musicians ended up marooned in cities far...
Former cop indicted in Taser death in Louisiana
Ruling in a racially explosive case that some forensic experts have described as police torture, a grand jury in the small Louisiana town of Winnfield indicted a white police officer...
With judge dismissed, Jena 6 backers now target prosecutor
Fresh from their successful effort to remove a local judge on the grounds that he was biased against them, the defendants in the racially charged Jena 6 case in Louisiana...
Indictment sought for police Taser death in Louisiana
Seeking to defuse growing racial tensions in the small Louisiana town of Winnfield, the local district attorney announced Monday that he will seek an indictment against a white police officer...
Taser death ignites racial tensions
At 1:28 p.m. last Jan. 17, Baron "Scooter" Pikes was a healthy 21-year-old man. By 2:07 p.m., he was dead. What happened in the 39 minutes in between--during which Pikes...