Hurricane Katrina News
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It's the train-wreck you cannot look away from, or the car accident that makes you slow down despite your better judgement telling you not to be that person. Except in New Orleans, post-Katrina, the event is more an a car accident: it's the entire city.
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Tropical Storm Lee dumped over a foot of rain on Louisiana and Mississippi and continues on a northeast trek threatening the Appalachian states with torrential rains and flash flooding to continue through Wednesday.
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New Orleans -
An ex-police officer in New Orleans has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the shooting death of a man, as well as the burning of the man's body, shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit the region.
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Pascagoula -
Thrown into the Mary Walker Bayou by Hurricane Georges in 1998, a historic schooner that once sailed for the German Navy is at risk of being lost forever.
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Washington -
The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and scientists are warning of the potential dangers if strong solar flare storms continue. Some say solar storms could cost $2 trillion in damages.
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New Orleans -
The people of New Orleans understand suffering. That was and is seen in words and pictures. They suffer now, and they worry also not just with the problems occurring on the oil crisis in the Gulf but also how they are reported.
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The storm season is four months out as financial cutbacks force hard choices. Will New Orleans' "forgotten people" be lost again and will stereotypes continue to cause police abuses and ignorance of the city's poor, black elderly?
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Resolution comes slowly to some victims of great horror. For people of New Orleans, in black communities, the shooting of innocents on a bridge saw judgment come slowly, with the admission of police crimes at the highest levels.
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Journalists can affect readers' perception of events. One commentator says the media focus on the negative, like looters, does a disservice to people in need.
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New Orleans citizens received some relief from the ongoing "blame game" that has gone on since Hurricane Katrina. These residents said they did not know New Orleans flooding would occur from levee breaches, and a federal court has upheld their claims.
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Five former policemen convicted of shooting six people, two fatally, in New Orleans in the chaotic wake of Hurricane Katrina are jailed for decades.
 Five former New Orleans police officers have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from six to 65 years for their roles in deadly shootings of unarmed residents in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina.
Ten years ago, Robin Roberts took her seat as news anchor on “Good Morning America,” and what a decade it’s been. She has traveled the world, covered tragedies like Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake to celebrations like the royal wedding, and been there to...
US National Hurricane Center says Bud has developed into a hurricane off coast of SW Mexico.
Hurricane Bud weakens to a Category 2 storm in the Pacific as it approaches Mexico's coast
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Treme, New Orleans. August, 2011.
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