Contributor ReportsArmy Corps of Enginneers responsible for Katrina flooding
Posted by:
Deepizzaguy 
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated Sun Nov 22 12:44:09 -0800 2009 | disasters
Judge Stanwood Duval ruled late wednesday night that the Army Corps of Engineers were responsible for flooding in the New Orleans Lower Night Ward and neighborhoring Saint Bernard Parish due to a faulty channel that broke during Hurricane Katrina in...
ReachRacism Reincarnated
Posted by: loriannpen
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated Tue Nov 24 05:58:00 -0800 2009 | disasters
This is a story that should be a relic unearthed from less enlightened times. Sadly, it's not. An interracial couple tried to get a marriage license, but the justice of the peace refused to issue one specifically because it was...
“Dead Man Walking” nun Helen Prejean: “16 years on death row & ...
Posted by:
BorderExplorer
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated Mon Jul 13 20:40:13 -0700 2009 | disasters
Today Manuel Ortiz is having his day in court. US Catholic Sister Helen Prejean has earned respect and public acclaim for her work with prisoners condemned to death. Her ministry was depicted in the movie Dead Man Walking (1995), based...
Is the Steve Mc Nair murder a wake up call for all cheaters?
Posted by:
halfapint
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated Sun Jul 12 18:07:07 -0700 2009 | disasters
After I heard about the details of Steve Mc Nair's untimely death, I wondered if most men and women who are currently having affairs were scared. When men step out on their wives, they really do not know who they...
Frozen chicken fugitive pleads guilty to fowl play
Posted by:
eviljerk
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated Thu Jul 02 06:53:18 -0700 2009 | disasters
In 1981,a Montreal man named Alexander Henri Legault, 59, had a conspiracy to defraud Egypt's government and a British bank of seven million dollars in a scheme involving a shipload of frozen chickens. After years as a fugitive he pleaded...
NOT SO EASY IN THE "BIG EASY"!
Posted by:
slydog
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated Tue Feb 24 16:29:01 -0800 2009 | disasters
An infant was shot in crossfire today during the Mardis Gras Parade in New Orleans, Louisiana. Four others were also wounded in the fracas. Police found it hard to get good witnesses to the incident by virtue of firecracker sounds...
Phi Helicopter Crash - Helicopter was owned by Petroleum Helicopters ...
Posted by:
Hurricane
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated Mon Jan 05 13:10:20 -0800 2009 | disasters
A helicopter owned by Petroleum Helicopters Inc (PHI) crashed around 100 miles southwest of New Orleans, in the marshes along Bayou Penchant. This helicopter was headed to a Shell Oil platform in the South Timbalier 300 block off the coast...
Lines for evacuation buses grow in New Orleans
Posted by: crystalw
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated Fri Nov 21 16:04:49 -0800 2008 | disasters
NEW ORLEANS - Lines of people waiting for buses to take them out of the city grew longer Saturday and traffic grew heavier on main highways as Hurricane Gustav strengthened into a dangerous storm on track for the Gulf Coast....
Gustav: New storm, new lessons
Posted by:
BlakMajik
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated Fri Nov 21 16:04:52 -0800 2008 | disasters
The mayor called it "the mother of all storms." Ray Nagin even warned it could be "worse than a Katrina." Hurricane Gustav may not have lived up to its billing, sidestepping New Orleans to come ashore in Louisiana's oil patch...
Strapped for cash, some in New Orleans stay and hope
Posted by:
crystalw
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated Fri Nov 21 16:04:50 -0800 2008 | disasters
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- On a cigarette break from washing dishes in the French Quarter, Michael Kennedy swung open the door of Café Maspero, and the briny smell of raw shrimp followed him outside. A woman walks her dog...
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