Hurricane Katrina: Move Beyond Sound-Bites and "Armchair" Theories
Newswise (press release) - USA
REALITY: During Hurricane Katrina, parts of New Orleans--a bowl partially below sea-level--were inundated with 13.6 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. ...
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New Orleans resurfaces in NCAAs after Katrina
MSNBC - USA
NEW ORLEANS - The baseball stadium at the University of New Orleans offers a view of the vast lake that overflowed into this city during Hurricane Katrina, ...
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Judge retains homicide charges against suburban New Orleans ...
Pravda - Moscow,Russia
... a request to dismiss homicide charges against the owners of a suburban New Orleans nursing home where 35 residents died during Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Trump Steams Ahead but Most New Orleans High-Rises on Hold
Insurance Journal - San Diego,CA,USA
When Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005, levees broke and flooded about 80 percent of New Orleans. The water extended well into the business district, ...
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Rebuilt New Orleans couldn't handle a Katrina
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- An imposing concrete monolith now stands where the canal wall burst and doomed the Lower Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina. ...
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AP Finds Five Vulnerable Hurricane Areas
MyFox Dallas - Dallas,TX,USA
So, where's the next New Orleans? Pick a place on the coast, and there's a worst-case scenario. The calamities they face are less about Mother Nature's ...
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MANY KATRINA EVACUEES ARE STILL JOBLESS
National Center for Policy Analysis - Dallas,TX,USA
Nineteen months after Hurricane Katrina sent evacuees from New Orleans streaming into Houston, more than 5000 heads of households among them are still ...
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FEMA chief says US ready for bad hurricane season
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
Many poor people had no way of leaving New Orleans and other urban areas when Katrina hit, stranding them in a storm and related flooding that killed more ...
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Louisiana, New Orleans Road Home Debated As Hurricane Season Swirls
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
On the first day of Hurricane season, the eye of the storm is the Road Home, funding and a master plan for New Orleans and Louisiana , in general. ...
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Is Killer Storm Still Taking a Toll?
WTOP - Washington,DC,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The bodies are no longer being dragged from houses and buildings toppled by Hurricane Katrina, but nearly two years later many in the ...
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New Orleans Mayor Nagin, HUD Head Jackson To Celebrate New Desire ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
Its effort will return 107 affordable, mixed-income, rental housing units to New Orleans East, a community devastated by Katrina and Rita. ...
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Is Killer Storm Still Taking a Toll?
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo,IA,USA
NEW ORLEANS - The bodies are no longer being dragged from houses and buildings toppled by Hurricane Katrina, but nearly two years later many in the medical ...
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FBI Seizes New Orleans and Louisiana Movie Production Firm Records
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
Louisiana has been on the forefront of movie industry, despite Hurricane Katrina and has been a mainstay and a driving force of Hollywood South. ...
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NAGIN WANTS MORE HELP FROM BUSH AND BLANCO: New Orleans Mayor ...
Eurweb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
*Mayor Ray Nagin, in his first State of the City address since Hurricane Katrina, said New Orleans is a city on the mend, in spite of failures by, ...
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New Orleans high-rises on hold
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
NEW ORLEANS - Lured by congressionally authorized tax credits and other financial incentives after Hurricane Katrina, a procession of developers announced ...
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No Katrina for Tampa
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
TAMPA - As the chaos in New Orleans unfolded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Tampa's fire chief was grilled by his boss, Mayor Pam Iorio. ...
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New Orleans still suffering from Katrina
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- The bodies are no longer being dragged from houses and buildings toppled by Hurricane Katrina, but nearly two years later many in the medical ...
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New Orleans Blues Guitarist Bryan Lee Creates Classic with New CD ...
Modern Guitars Magazine (press release) - Laguna Beach,CA,USA
The chilling title track is Lee's mournful tale about the day the levy broke down in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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French Market's $5 million makeover nearing completion
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
Before Katrina struck, members of the French Market Corp. and New Orleans City Council spent years researching ways to restore the open-air market. ...
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FEMA: We're Ready For Hurricane Season
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
In Louisiana's Jefferson Parish and Orleans Parish, which includes New Orleans, there were no evacuation plans for people unable to evacuate themselves, ...
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Army Corps trying to repair its image along with levees
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
Collectively, they manage the $7 billion appropriated so far by Congress for New Orleans area hurricane protection. Durham-Aguilera, who came to the job ...
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Spike Lee to return to New Orleans, with cameras
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... to return to New Orleans for HBO to follow up the stories told in last year's four-hour documentary about the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Guard to stay in New Orleans through hurricane season
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The National Guard, which has helped patrol some of the least populated sections of this hurricane-battered city for nearly a year, ...
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Feds Hit New Orleans Streets
Officer.com - USA
NEW ORLEANS -- The federal government is in the midst of an unprecedented intervention into the local criminal justice system here, adding more than 40 ...
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Louisiana Business Shorts: New Orleans Nagin, Road Home Deadline ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
Louisiana homeowners affected by Hurricane Katrina or Rita who have not yet applied to The Road Home program have until July 31, 2007 to file an application ...
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Barge At Center Of Post-Katrina Lawsuit
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
The empty barge, owned by Ingram Barge Co., landed on several homes in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Louisiana, New Orleans Balances Recovery As Mississippi Rakes In ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
Also, Louisiana should scrub its budget to the bone but allowing sufficient amounts for necessary services to implement programs in the new world of Katrina ...
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Jefferson indicted; New Orleans recovery suffers more bad news
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
William Jefferson dealt another setback to a city struggling to recover from the economic and political devastation of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans Levee Report Finished By Panel Including University Of ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
The 84-page report, "The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why," targets the public and policymakers, and complements and ...
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New Orleans Vendors Return to French Market After Katrina
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
... Harrison sold pralines and other sugary treats at New Orleans' French Market for more than 15 years until Hurricane Katrina shut down her business. ...
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New Orleans Airport speeds up rehab effort
Cheapflights.com - Boston,MA,USA
Though airport representatives admit that the facility had long been in need of repair, the havoc caused by Hurricane Katrina made a renovation program ...
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Obama Warns of 'Quiet Riot' Among Blacks
Glens Falls Post-Star - Glens Falls,NY,USA
The first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, ...
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New Corps Chief Says He's Committed to Rebuilding New Orleans
Insurance Journal - San Diego,CA,USA
Carl Strock said the agency took responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans by Katrina and said the levees failed because they were built in a ...
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Guard to stay in New Orleans through end of hurricane season to ...
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
NEW ORLEANS - The National Guard, which has helped patrol some of the least populated sections of this hurricane-battered city for nearly a year, ...
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Spike Lee to Return to New Orleans to Follow-Up on Katrina Doc
World Screen News - New York,NY,USA
... about the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Lee is not sure when he will return to New Orleans. "The story is not over," he said. ...
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FBI Stats: New Orleans Had Worst Homicide Rate
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
The FBI's figures pegged New Orleans' population at 431153, an estimate which doesn't take the city's losses from Hurricane Katrina into account. ...
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New Orleans Levees 1000 Times Riskier Than Large Dams
Environment News Service - USA
"The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why," released on Friday, is intended to inform the public and policymakers. ...
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French Market back in New Orleans
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Candy maker Loretta Harrison sold pralines and other sugary treats at New Orleans' French Market for more than 15 years until Hurricane Katrina shut down ...
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Senate approves plan for New Orleans charity hospital
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
Kathleen Blanco would replace the university's charity hospital facilities that were flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Legislature must approve the ...
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After the Storm's 'Island' to Feature New Orleans Stars
Broadway World - New York,NY,USA
Through their eyes, the film's audience can view the recent history of New Orleans, the impact of Hurricane Katrina and how art can help the kids overcome ...
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New Orleans Tours emerges from bankruptcy
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
New Orleans Tours, a bus operator whose business was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week. ...
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New Orleans is America's Murder Capital -- Again
Officer.com - USA
The FBI put New Orleans' 2006 population at 431153, not even accounting for the city's losses from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. At that population, the murder ...
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Hurricane relief effort marches on
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
The event is sponsored by the annual TapeOp Conference, which moved to Tucson from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The event will feature Louisiana ...
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US appeals court hears arguments in Katrina levee lawsuits
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
... New Orleans homeowners against insurance companies that refuse to cover damage resulting from the levee failure in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. ...
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Fundraiser for New Orleans at Prospect HeightsâEURO(tm) Soda Bar
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
All proceeds will go to the New Orleans Kid Camera Project, a non-profit created to address the psychological and emotional impacts of Hurricane Katrina on ...
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New Orleans Youth Perform Once On This Island June 18 in NYC ...
Playbill.com - New York,NY,USA
In a parallel to the story of New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina, the musical "weaves the story of a black peasant girl on a mythical Caribbean island who ...
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Constant guard
World Magazine - USA
The outside help creates a new dynamic in New Orleans, a city long harangued by acute crime and a feeble justice system, and that now battles post-Katrina ...
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4 La. parishes say they're ready for next big one
JEMS.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- The architects of a new emergency response plan that links computers in four parishes and creates a problem-solving "fusion center," a ...
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Tsunami Survivor at Munich Re Warns of Intense Hurricane Season
Bloomberg - USA
``With Hurricane Katrina we were relatively lucky that it didn't hit New Orleans with full force and that it didn't cross the areas most densely used by oil ...
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Judge's ruling expected in Katrina shooting case against New ...
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... by attorneys for three New Orleans police officers charged with murder or attempted murder in shootings at a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans heralds new Desire, but protests go on
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
But the plans to tear down public housing met harsh criticism as thousands of poor and working-class New Orleans residents displaced by Katrina found ...
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Hornets try to rebuild New Orleans fan base after two years in ...
CBC News - Canada
... to rebuild its New Orleans-area fan base after two years in Oklahoma City, where the Hornets set up shop after being displaced by hurricane Katrina in ...
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Nagin: New Orleans still needs help
USA Today - USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Mayor Ray Nagin, in his first State of the City address since Hurricane Katrina, said Wednesday that New Orleans is a city on the mend, ...
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US appeals court hears arguments in Katrina levee lawsuits
Daily Report - Atlanta,GA,USA
... New Orleans homeowners against insurance companies for their refusal to cover damage from the failure of levees in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. ...
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Almost 2 Years Later, Few Cranes Seen on New Orleans Skyline
ThomasNet Industrial News Room - New York City,NY,USA
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, many developers announced plans to build high-rises there. Yet 20 months after the storm, ...
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A look at New Orleans charity hospital facilities pre- and post ...
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
LSU's charity hospital facilities in New Orleans were flooded and shuttered by Hurricane Katrina. The university has been ramping up services, ...
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LA for LA participants repair homes in New Orleans
Los Alamos Monitor - Los Alamos,NM,USA
... returned from their New Orleans trip with lessons learned and an overwhelming sense of the chaos that remains in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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NO health official wants more than stats on city deaths
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A recent study by state health officials seriously downplays an increase in the New Orleans area's post-Katrina mortality rate, ...
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Benjamin Lowy For The New York Times
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
>From the top: Edwards at a town hall meeting in Des Moines; the home of a Hurricane Katrina victim in New Orleans; a conference of black mayors in Baton ...
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US Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Katrina Levee Lawsuits
Insurance Journal - San Diego,CA,USA
... in a case pitting New Orleans homeowners against insurance companies for their refusal to cover damage from the failure of levees in Hurricane Katrina's ...
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New Orleans sound is still alive and stomping
ic Coventry - Coventry,UK
HURRICANE KATRINA made a big difference to the jazz city of New Orleans, but the music has certainly survived, and will be coming to Coventry next week. ...
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Judge wants Justice Dept. in Katrina case
United Press International - USA
... A New Orleans judge has demanded the US Justice Department get involved in a case of alleged overbilling and underpaying in Hurricane Katrina cases. ...
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New Orleans Levee Report Finished By Panel Including University Of ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
The 84-page report, "The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why," targets the public and policymakers, and complements and ...
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Getting wind of new hurricane products
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
Who knew how important a safe, secure, waterproof container for valuables would be until we saw the flooding in New Orleans? New and better devices are ...
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Connick's new album keeps New Orleans in mind
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
New Orleans has been at the forefront of Connick's music for the past few years. After Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of Louisiana in 2005, ...
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BG journalist to sign copies of book on Katrina
Bowling Green Daily News - KY, United States
The end of August marks the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, yet a large section of New Orleans still stands empty. ...
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Jonte Short: The new Aretha
Daily Mail - UK
But on her way to fulfilling her promise, she has had to overcome professional setbacks, marital meltdown and even the loss of her home in Hurricane Katrina ...
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Almost 2 years after Katrina, disaster is the most popular tour
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
The bellwether French Quarter was almost untouched by hurricane. Kelly Schulz, spokeswoman for the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau, ...
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Laser Scanning Katrina-Damaged Levees
Amerisurv (press release) - Frederick,MD,USA
Six weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, two researchers, Dr. Robert Kayen and Dr. Brian Collins from the United States Geological Survey ...
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Paintings from New Orleans spared by the storm
Omaha World-Herald (subscription) - Omaha,NE,USA
BY DANE STICKNEY When New Orleans Museum of Art employees were forced to evacuate the building after Hurricane Katrina, members of a private security detail ...
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Lawmaker urges new stadium talks
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
Saints owner Tom Benson, who before Katrina said his team would need a new stadium to remain competitive in small-market New Orleans, has since modified his ...
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Ready to Return to New Orleans, Hornets Try to Reconnect With Fans
New York Times - United States
... its New Orleans-area fan base after two years in Oklahoma City, where the Hornets set up shop after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. ...
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Lee Urges People to Vote, Cites Katrina
WTOP - Washington,DC,USA
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Spike Lee, screening his documentary about Hurricane Katrina, urged people to vote to ensure government functions better in the ...
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Crescent City comes to life
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
I went to New York City in 2001 six months after 9/11. I recently visited New Orleans nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Meeting Katrina's challenge
Boston Globe - United States
But a few days after he arrived on the New Orleans campus, Katrina hit. The school was evacuated and DeMeo began an arduous trip across the country, ...
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Road Home deficit hurting New Orleans
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
For instance, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin had hoped to receive some of the $775 million in federal money freed up by the waiver for his plan to focus on 17 ...
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New Orleans Faces Mental Health 'Treatment Crisis,' Opinion Piece ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
A mental health "treatment crisis" has developed in New Orleans in the two years after Hurricane Katrina struck the region, Marc Siegel, an associate ...
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Former New Orleans Cop Charged in Videotaped Post-Katrina Beating ...
FOX News - USA
NEW ORLEANS -- A former New Orleans police officer accused of beating a retired schoolteacher on Bourbon Street shortly after Hurricane Katrina was found ...
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New Orleans Pet Owners File Lawsuit
WKRN - Nashville,TN,USA
A class action lawsuit was filed Monday by nine New Orleans pet owners who say their dogs were needlessly slaughtered after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Lee Urges People to Vote, Cites Katrina
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Spike Lee, screening his documentary about Hurricane Katrina, urged people to vote to ensure government functions better in the future ...
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A 1900-Mile Parade for New Orleans
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
There is nothing easy about New Orleans's recovery from Katrina, so it seems fitting that the Big Easy caravan would encounter some potholes along the way, ...
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Grant program seeks to lure, keep doctors in post-Katrina NO
KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA
AP - June 11, 2007 4:05 PM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Many doctors are working under greater stress and making less money in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. ...
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A community prepares through disaster workshop
FinalCall.com - Chicago,IL,USA
"The beauty of the Millions More Movement in New Orleans specifically, and Louisiana in general, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is that each of us ...
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MCC supports initiative for housing in New Orleans
Mennonite Central Committee - USA
By August 2005 when Hurricane Katrina struck, St. John Baptist Church in the Uptown area of New Orleans was a growing, thriving congregation with some 300 ...
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New Orleans Officer Charged in Beating Found Dead
Officer.com - USA
AP Online NEW ORLEANS_A former New Orleans police officer charged in the videotaped beating of a man after Hurricane Katrina apparently shot himself to ...
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Report: New Orleans paying too much attention to minor offenses
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
... continuing the department's practice before Hurricane Katrina. "It takes an officer the same amount of time to take someone to Orleans Parish Prison for ...
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Hurricane Season: The Readiness is All
Truthdig - United States
We all recognize that Katrina devastated New Orleans, that our government responded inadequately and that now, recovery is going slowly at best. ...
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Hamilton Students Travel to New Orleans for Summer Service Trip
Hamilton College News - Clinton,NY,USA
A group of Hamilton students traveled to New Orleans for 10 days to contribute to post-Hurricane Katrina cleaning and rebuilding efforts. ...
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Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina, tours of New Orleans ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
Nearly two years after Katrina turned the New Orleans area into a lake of misery, demand for tours of the devastation overwhelms that for visits to mainstay ...
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ArenaBowl in New Orleans is a sell-out
NBCSports.com - Mendota Height,MN,USA
It will be the first team championship in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. The last two ArenaBowls were held in Las Vegas. Before that, the team with ...
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Nearly 100 Bodies From Hurricane Katrina Still Not Buried
Eyewitness News Memphis - TN, USA
Right now, the bodies are stored in an unmarked warehouse near the Superdome in New Orleans. More than 1000 bodies were recovered by rescue crews shortly ...
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Louisiana Launches Program To Attract Medical Professionals to ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
... to areas affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 by offering financial incentives, including student loan repayment and income guarantees, the New Orleans ...
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Spike Lee film
Sky News Australia - Australia
Filmmaker Spike Lee, who has produced a documentary about Hurricane Katrina, has urged Americans to vote for a government that functions better in the ...
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Media Savvy: Like a hurricane
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
"Folks in New Orleans will tell you that, before the hurricane, I wished for a hurricane," Williams says, a tad sheepishly. "I thought, 'Man, we get us a ...
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Preservation requirements raise New Orleans rebuilding costs
International Herald Tribune - France
AP NEW ORLEANS: As New Orleans continues to recover from 2005's Hurricane Katrina, homeowners in historic districts are finding it even more challenging to ...
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New Orleans' hurricane recovery would benefit under spending bill
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
New Orleans' rebuilding and recovery after Hurricane Katrina would get a $50 million boost from the state, under a surplus spending bill headed to the House ...
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Katrina 'ruff-ugee' arrives back in New Orleans
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
NEW ORLEANS, La. - A black Labrador Retriever, rescued during Hurricane Katrina and brought to Colorado, has returned to her original home in New Orleans. ...
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New report places big blame on Katrina's unprecedented force
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
By MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN Hurricane Katrina's unprecedented forces overwhelmed the New Orleans area hurricane protection system and "no one person or decision is ...
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Report Critical of New Orleans Police Focus
Officer.com - USA
New Orleans police now arrest people at a faster pace than before Hurricane Katrina, and focus too much on minor municipal and traffic offenses that detract ...
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Kalencom embraces roots with debut of new logo
Kids Today - Greensboro,NC,USA
"When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August, 2005, our entire operation had to move as a result of tremendous damage to our factory. ...
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APSS: After Katrina, Sleepless Men in New Orleans
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
By Ed Susman, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today MINNEAPOLIS, June 13 -- Insomnia among men was an apparent sequel to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, ...
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COP ACCUSED OF POST-KATRINA BEATING FOUND DEAD: New Orleans police ...
Eurweb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
*A former New Orleans police officer accused of beating a retired schoolteacher on Bourbon Street shortly after Hurricane Katrina was found dead of a ...
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New Orleans Struggles to Recover
The Epoch Times Ireland - Dublin,Leinster,Ireland
PRISTINE: The famed French Quarter in New Orleans sits untouched, despite the widespread damage caused by levees breaking after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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House approves plan for New Orleans charity hospital
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
Plans to build a new $1.2 billion public hospital in New Orleans _ to replace the charity hospital facilities flooded by Hurricane Katrina _ received final ...
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New Orleans School District taps Houston firm for classroom security
Houston Business Journal - Houston,TX,USA
... for a major border control contract will also be chipping in on another lingering national issue: New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina. ...
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USM sponsors social welfare conference in New Orleans
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
... of the university will present at a conference in New Orleans beginning this week focusing on issues prominent in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Building a Bridge to New Orleans
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... from Long Island, New York to New Orleans, Louisiana. To mark the upcoming two-year mark of Hurricane Katrina's landfall and subsequent destruction, ...
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Louisiana Business Shorts: Zogby and Katrina, New Orleans Tourism ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
2/3000 When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans , the Louisiana Superdome quickly became a symbol for the devastation that followed. ...
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Katrina Changes Demographics of Health Care in New Orleans ...
DG News - USA
By Ed Susman MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- June 14, 2007 -- The recovery efforts in storm-ravaged New Orleans appears to have already changed treatment parameters with ...
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Former Mass. Inspector General to be Watchdog as New Orleans Rebuilds
Insurance Journal - San Diego,CA,USA
... for questions he raised about the long troubled Big Dig highway project, will be New Orleans' top watchdog as it rebuilds after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Landmark requirements raise rebuilding costs for New Orleans ...
Picayune Item - Picayune,MS,USA
AP New Orleans -- Kelvin Hewitt began pounding nails into his 140-year-old home just weeks after it was battered by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Katrina evacuee from New Orleans faces prison for child abuse
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
(AP) -- A mother of nine children who fled New Orleans to escape Hurricane Katrina has been convicted in Mobile of aggravated abuse of her 13-month-old ...
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New Orleans goes international in plea for recovery aid
International Herald Tribune - France
AP NEW ORLEANS: The cash-strapped city of New Orleans is turning to the rest of the world for help to rebuild as federal hurricane recovery dollars remain ...
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Mister Rogers exhibit finds new home in New Orleans
Penn Live - Harrisburg,PA,USA
Bland said New Orleans is a city of neighborhoods, which makes the Mister Rogers' exhibit a natural addition. The museum shows kids how to pilot a tugboat ...
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New Orleans Landmark status a calamity
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
By JOHN MORENO GONZALES AP elvin Hewitt began pounding nails into his 140-year-old home just weeks after it was battered by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans goes international in plea for recovery aid
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The cash-strapped city of New Orleans is turning to foreign countries for help to rebuild as federal hurricane recovery dollars remain ...
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House Approves Plan For New Orleans Charity Hospital
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
A 70-33 vote moves the hospital -- which would replace the facilities flooded by Hurricane Katrina -- closer to securing $300 million in federal funding to ...
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SHRM Cultivates Bonds in New Orleans
Insurance News Net - Harrisburg,PA,USA
While New Orleans businesses are rebounding from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, attendees of the Society for Human Resource Management's ...
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New Orleans hopes to host 2008 presidential debate
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - If local leaders get their way, the bleak images of suffering and death at the New Orleans Convention Center that Hurricane Katrina ...
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Judge Blocks FEMA From Cutting Hurricane Rental Aid
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- On Wednesday, a federal judge in New Orleans blocked the Federal Emergency Management Agency from pulling rental aid from hurricane victims ...
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2nd Anniverssary of Hurricane Katrina
AZoBuild - Sydney,Australia
LIHome411.com, Long Island's local source for home improvement contractors is building a bridge from Long Island, New York to New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
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New Orleans Pursues Foreign Aid
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
(AP) The cash-strapped city of New Orleans is turning to the rest of the world for help to rebuild as federal hurricane recovery dollars remain slow to flow ...
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Dorry helps Hurricane Katrina victims
Gloucester Daily Times - MA, USA
9 from a shelter in New Jersey. Hailey was transported there after being rescued from the pound in New Orleans on March 11, 2006, the day before he was ...
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Filmmaker to extend Katrina project
The West Australian - Perth,Western Australia,Australia
Filmmaker Jonathan Demme has put the struggle of New Orleans' poor to reclaim their hurricane-wracked neighbourhoods on television and the big screen. ...
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New Orleans' artistic recovery is afoot
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
Simmons was just one of hundreds of New Orleans area youngsters NOBA helped reconnect to dance after Katrina. This summer, she is one of five NOBA students ...
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New Orleans hopes to host 2008 presidential debate
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
AP NEW ORLEANS -- If local leaders get their way, the bleak images of suffering and death at the New Orleans Convention Center that Hurricane Katrina etched ...
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Hurricane blows Hispanic workers back to New Orleans
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
... of New Orleans cultural icons. But venture outside the city's historic center, into neighborhoods being rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, ...
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Vantage Point: Katrina's Face
Amerisurv (press release) - Frederick,MD,USA
The first night I was able to turn on CNN, views of New Orleans under a combination of storm waters and flooding from the breach in the levees at Lake ...
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For Wranglers' Lewis, New Orleans is a true homecoming
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
That was the least of his worries, though, with Hurricane Katrina bearing down on New Orleans at the same time. Lewis' home was destroyed. ...
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DVD REVIEW: BIG EASY TO BIG EMPTY
Cinematic Happenings Under Development - New York,NY,USA
Audio excerpt on Katrina and New Orleans from Greg's book Armed Madhouse. - Extended interviews from LSU's Hurricane Center and the inspiring crew that is ...
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Austin Loses To New Orleans, 66-61
OurSports Central (press release) - Marshfield,WI,USA
... Wranglers players that are native to Louisiana, Austin traveled to New Orleans for the first time since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Crescent City. ...
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New Orleans Hopes To Land Presidential Debate
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- If local leaders get their way, the bleak images of suffering and death at the New Orleans Convention Center that Hurricane Katrina etched ...
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Jonathan Demme sees extended Katrina project
ABC Online - Australia
Film-maker Jonathan Demme has put the struggle of New Orleans's poor to reclaim their hurricane-wracked neighbourhoods on television and the big screen. ...
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New Orleans gets fresh look
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA
Jackson Square, the historic heart of New Orleans, is "very clean, you don't even notice there was any hurricane damage," Hodge said. ...
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A taste of New Orleans
St. George Daily Spectrum - St. George,UT,USA
Ironically, Hurricane Rita pounded Cheramie's temporary home in Lafayette, La., shortly after destroying his home in New Orleans. But the Louisiana native ...
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Mister Rogers to open a New Orleans neighborhood
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
New Orleans neighborhoods that are struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina will get a helping hand of sorts from the most famous neighborhood of them ...
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Mayo diver makes splash, then heads to New Orleans
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
Almost as soon as White was finished winning his division in 1- and 3-meter diving, he was again on his way to New Orleans for round two of hurricane ...
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New Orleans hopes to host 2008 presidential debate
Leesville Daily Leader - Leesville,LA,USA
New Orleans would provide the perfect background to questions candidates will have to deal with - not just about responding to disasters like Katrina, ...
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Dallas architects branch into New Orleans
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
... Orleans office will focus on projects in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, including redeveloping a New Orleans landmark damaged by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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$2.2M Grant To Fund Katrina Fellows In New Orleans
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
... Foundation will fund more than a dozen positions for urban redevelopment professionals to work on Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans. ...
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Richfield group visits New Orleans to help foster mother rebuild home
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls,ID,USA
By Aimee Durand RICHFIELD âEURO" Two years after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the once-bustling city of New Orleans, people are still trying to rebuild ...
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AAUP Carries Through With Plan to Censure 4 New Orleans Universities
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
... the national faculty organization voted to censure four university administrations in New Orleans for their actions since Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Landmark requirements increase rebuilding costs for New Orleans
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
By John Moreno Gonzales AP NEW ORLEANS -- Kelvin Hewitt began pounding nails into his 140-year-old home just weeks after it was battered by Hurricane Katrina ...
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New Orleans still vulnerable, say American engineers
CIOB International News - Ascot,Berkshire,UK
Overcoming the deficiencies in the New Orleans hurricane protection system - and instituting real change it its engineering, management and governance ...
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June 21-Sept. 15: 'Katrina' chronicles disaster
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
When Emily Domingue heard Hurricane Katrina was coming, she packed a small bag, locked the door on her New Orleans townhouse and headed for her mother's ...
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Hearst-Argyle Television Receives Telly Awards for Specials ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
"Song for New Orleans," produced in cooperation with Hearst-Argyle by Boston-based Parallax Productions, recounts Katrina's separation of the Rebirth Brass ...
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Sources: New Orleans nurses offered immunity in deaths
CNN - USA
CNN first reported the allegations of euthanasia months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and flooded New Orleans. ...
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Long Road Ahead for New Orleans
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USA
Two months away from Hurricane Katrina's second anniversary, the report examines how well the city's schools have bounced back and what the Recovery School ...
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Richfield group visits New Orleans to help foster mother rebuild home
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls,ID,USA
By Aimee Durand RICHFIELD - Two years after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the once-bustling city of New Orleans, people are still trying to rebuild ...
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New Orleans Makes Pitch For Presidential Debate
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
Rod West, president of the New Orleans business Council, said the city's struggle following Hurricane Katrina would not only tug at the country's ...
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Hurricane Katrina's Delicious Aftermath in New Orleans Wins an ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
After hurricane Katrina, many thought the ability to enjoy fine New Orleans style cooking might be gone forever. Fortunately, the culinary experience ...
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No takers for piano signed by Fats Domino, auctioned for New ...
KTRE - Lufkin,TX,USA
The Fats Domino piano auction may be relaunched closer to the 2-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which is August 29th.
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Pou Attorney Comments About New Orleans Nurses Katrina Statements
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
The attorney Rick Simmons, who is representing Dr. Anna Pou, who is being investigated by New Orleans DA Eddie Jordan has released the following statement ...
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Tidewater Considers Moving HQ From New Orleans
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
Tidewater executives relocated for a while to Houston following Hurricane Katrina, Taylor said -- and they found Texas to have a more business-friendly ...
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Corps: Much of New Orleans is still at risk for flooding, despite ...
Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck - Bismarck,ND,USA
And according to a new Army Corps of Engineers report, the vulnerable sections include some that are being rebuilt since Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Serving Some Gumbo From Old New Orleans
New York Times - United States
By BEN RATLIFF Even before Hurricane Katrina the Preservation Hall Jazz Band had been reviving. Now, touring heavily, making new records and collaborations, ...
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College sports struggling in New Orleans after Katrina
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... Professional sports are flourishing in New Orleans these days and they are often touted as examples of civic pride and recovery from Hurricane Katrina, ...
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FEMA To Help Repair New Orleans Water System
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
The decision, however, won't mean a whole new water system for New Orleans. Before Katrina, 36 million gallons leaked from old pipes. ...
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Post-Katrina Crime Shoots Up
ABC News - USA
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday on crime in post-Katrina New Orleans. Two panels addressed the committee, all of whom were absent ...
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Army Corps Of Engineers' Data Show A Continuing Threat To New Orleans
Free Internet Press - New York,NY,USA
Elsewhere in the greater New Orleans area, where the hurricane protection system was restored but not upgraded in a major way, the probability of damage ...
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Maps detail future flooding risks in New Orleans
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
On Wednesday, for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, US officials offered some specific answers, as the Army Corps of Engineers released new flood risk ...
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Mayor Nagin delivers State of New Orleans address
FinalCall.com - Chicago,IL,USA
In his first city address since Hurricane Katrina, he would offer optimism by highlighting small successes since Katrina, combined with emotional moments of ...
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New Orleans Nurses Offered Immunity in Katrina Euthanasia Deaths
LifeNews.com - Helena,MT,USA
by Steven Ertelt New Orleans, LA (LifeNews.com) -- Two nurses accused of euthanizing patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have been offered immunity to ...
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US Army Corps Of Engineers Say Large Parts Of New Orleans Still At ...
AHN - USA
New Orleans, LA (AHN) - With the 2007 hurricane season underway officials in New Orleans say that the city is still at risk of flooding. ...
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Post-Katrina New Orleans death rate shoots up
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
By Ed Stoddard DALLAS, June 21 (Reuters) - Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly 50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, ...
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Allstate Insurance settles dispute with Hurricane Katrina victim
WMC-TV - Memphis,TN,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Allstate Insurance settled a post-trial legal dispute with a policyholder who was awarded more than $2.8 million by a federal jury over ...
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HUD OKs $74 million for new hospital; no decision on $226 million
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
Kathleen Blanco want to use to help pay for a new hospital _ which will replace the LSU-run charity hospital facilities flooded by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Rebuilding is spotty along main highway
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Progress like theirs is spotty along US 90, a coastal highway that spans the length of Katrina's destructive path, from New Orleans to the southeastern tip ...
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New Orleans officials endorse post-Katrina recovery plan
International Herald Tribune - France
AP NEW ORLEANS: The City Council approved a rebuilding plan Thursday, a move both momentous nearly 22 months after Hurricane Katrina but also just a small ...
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A difficult road home for a New Orleans native
Derby Valley Gazette - Derby,CT,USA
She blames Katrina and New Orleans' agonizingly slow recovery for "the breakdown of family." Like thousands of New Orleanians, Meisel's family members have ...
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Post-Katrina New Orleans death rate shoots up
Scientific American - USA
By Ed Stoddard DALLAS (Reuters) - Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly 50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, in part because ...
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New Orleans still vulnerable to floods, say army engineers
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
By David Usborne After nearly two years of work fixing New Orleans' flood protection network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers ...
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Levee Projects Reduce Property Risk in New Orleans
Insurance News Net - Harrisburg,PA,USA
NEW ORLEANS - Billions of dollars in repairs and improvements to the New Orleans area's 350-mile hurricane protection system since Hurricane Katrina have ...
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New Orleans goes international in plea for recovery aid
The Broward Times - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
BY BECKY BOHRER NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The cash-strapped city of New Orleans is turning to the rest of the world for help to rebuild as federal hurricane ...
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FEMA sets deadline for list of New Orleans street repairs
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
AP NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Nearly 22 months after Hurricane Katrina, federal officials say they're still waiting for a list of storm-damaged streets in the city. ...
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Shinn banks fan support on success of Hornets in New Orleans
ESPN - USA
... Hornets' chief operating officer, addressed Hornets employees and emphasized working together to meet their goals in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. ...
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40 return from New Orleans aid trip
Daily American Online (subscription) - Somerset,PA,USA
Nearly two years have passed since Hurricane Katrina struck the coast of Gulf Coast, yet the area is still in need of dire help, said Pastor Dan Nicksich of ...
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New Orleans in danger of flooding
Hostelbookers.com - USA
The American city of New Orleans, decimated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is still highly vulnerable to fresh flooding, according to a new report. ...
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Glut of houses sends prices plummeting
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL DEMOCKER Thursday, June 21, 2007 A home on Vendome Place in New Orleans advertises the first year's insurance included, ...
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Hurricane Katrina Evacuee Family Heading Home To new Orleans
Fox 28 - South Bend,IN,USA
In two days, Katrina Joseph and her family will leave South Bend behind to return to New Orleans. With every dish she packs, there's a memory. Hurricane ...
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Katrina's battered legacy
Orange County Register - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
News from AP Fishing boats rest on the levee along Highway 90 in eastern New Orleans. Progress in rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina is spotty along US 90, ...
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New Orleans, FEMA At Odds Over Street Repairs
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- Nearly 22 months after Hurricane Katrina, federal officials said they're still waiting for a list of storm-damaged streets in New Orleans. ...
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Hornets owner Shinn says fan support is key goal
6abc.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. The Hornets have played nine games at New Orleans Arena since Katrina hit in August 2005, playing the rest of two, ...
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New Orleans Gets Detox Unit At University
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has said the city's health care system is in crisis post-Katrina. Later this summer, LSU's health care services division is ...
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New Watchdog For New Orleans
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
(AP) The appointment of this city's first inspector general is the latest in a list of government reforms since Hurricane Katrina _ one some observers say ...
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New Orleans congregation receives Anaheim Torah
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA
By ERIK ORTIZ ANAHEIM - What remains of Congregation Beth Israel in New Orleans is a hollowed-out synagogue and the imprint of where Hurricane Katrina's ...
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Senate budget committee digs up more money for Road Home
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... up more dollars for the post-hurricane Road Home program and deciding to pour state cash into construction of a new charity hospital in New Orleans. ...
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TOMMY STEVENSON: Crooners keep New Orleans tragedy alive
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) - Tuscaloosa,AL,USA
Now, "Louisiana 1927" has come to mean something very much different in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and has become a staple of bands and musicians touched ...
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Watchdog Is Latest New Orleans Reform
Chattanooganow (subscription) - Chattanooga,TN,USA
... Photo NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The appointment of this city's first inspector general is the latest in a list of government reforms since Hurricane Katrina ...
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New Orleans' Mortality Rate 47% Higher After Hurricane Katrina ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
The mortality rate among people who lived in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005 increased by 47% during the first six months of ...
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Hurricane Katrina: People Still Dying from Her Two Years Later
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA
And although it's much, much rarer of late, every once-in-a-while in the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area after Hurricane Katrina, there have been ...
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It's our hurricane Katrina, says emotion-charged PM
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... federal system of government to cope adequately with hurricane Katrina and the human misery and lawlessness that engulfed New Orleans in 2005," he said. ...
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Rebuilding New Orleans the Green Way
Hippy Shopper - London,UK
When hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans in 2005 rebuilding the city and rehousing the homeless was an urgent priority. ...
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Skaneateles school helps New Orleans
Auburn Citizen - Auburn,NY,USA
Others are forced to parent themselves and still suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress related to Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Asbestos inhalation risk emerges post-Katrina
Canadian Underwriter - Toronto,ON,Canada
The widespread demolition and renovation activities still under way in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 "may release asbestos fibers into the ...
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LRA approves New Orleans recovery blueprint
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
A blueprint for rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina received approval Monday from the Louisiana Recovery Authority, an authorization needed so ...
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New watchdog for New Orleans
Houston Chronicle - United States
Robert Cerasoli begins work in the new post in August with broad oversight of City Hall and the contracts it makes, a big issue as New Orleans rebuilds. ...
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KIPP's Mysterious Tale of Three Cities
Washington Post - United States
By Jay Mathews Last year, while visiting Houston, I got a look at New Orleans West (NOW), an emergency charter school for 400 Hurricane Katrina evacuee ...
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Severe Weather and Natural Disasters Underscore Importance of ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
In 2005 when Hurricane Katrina incapacitated the city of New Orleans medical community, the majority of paper medical records were completely destroyed, ...
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Hurricane Katrina: People Still Dying From Her Two Years Later
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
(NEW ORLEANS) Hurricane Katrina is still killing people nearly two years later. Yes, people are still dying from her two years later. ...
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An awkward close to a gesture of goodwill Katrina transplants told ...
Ann Arbor News - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the congregation of about 550 started a housing task force to help the family and a family disaster ...
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Private dollars leading recovery of New Orleans
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
... writer of The Christian Science Monitor New Orleans - Billions of federal dollars have been allotted or spent in New Orleans since hurricane Katrina, ...
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Report: New Orleans population grows
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
By BECKY BOHRER AP NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans' population reached about 262000 people in May, 58 percent of the pre-Hurricane Katrina level, ...
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Congressional report blasts environmental agency over Katrina response
International Herald Tribune - France
AP NEW ORLEANS: A new congressional report blasts the US environmental agency for not doing more to monitor harmful asbestos during Hurricane Katrina ...
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Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina's destruction of New Orleans
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
"Why, despite longstanding anticipation of a hurricane strike on New Orleans, significant forewarning of Katrina's imminent landfall, the potential impact ...
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ENO Quits Maintaining New Orleans Lights
Forbes - NY,USA
The two sides had been talking about ending the maintenance agreement since June 2004, but negotiations were suspended after Hurricane Katrina struck in ...
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New Orleans judge fights poor defense
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Already troubled before Hurricane Katrina, the system has deteriorated into what Hunter called "unbelievable, unconstitutional, totally lacking in basic ...
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Gulf Watch: Hearing spotlights workplace injustice in post-Katrina ...
Facing South - Durham,NC,USA
Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) held a hearing yesterday on the adequacy of labor law enforcement in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans Recovery: A Tale of Two Cities
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
August 29 will mark two years since the day that New Orleans was struck with disastrous flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina. In a city once known for being ...
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New Orleans Sees Biggest Population Loss in US, Census Says
Bloomberg - USA
By Courtney Dentch June 28 (Bloomberg) -- New Orleans lost more than half of its population after Hurricane Katrina, while five Texas cities added more ...
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When the saints go marchin' out
Economist - UK
Officially, New Orleans's population is half its pre-Katrina level. According to the Renew Our Music Fund, one of several charities helping musicians from ...
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New Orleans Population Rebounds, Slowly
Daily Green - CA,USA
Some call them the first climate change refugees -- the millions that fled New Orleans and the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region in ...
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Runoff: New Orleans Mayor
Wired News - USA
Landrieu struck a similar theme, saying his showing was testament to the unity the city needs after a storm that put all of New Orleans "literally in the ...
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Ahura Scientific Helps New Orleans Fire Department With Hazardous ...
Marketwire (press release) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
FirstDefender was first used in New Orleans immediately following Hurricane Katrina, when Ahura Scientific provided two units to aid clean-up efforts, ...
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Katrina Families Settle in Canadaville
Forbes - NY,USA
Some Simmesport residents worried murderers and rapists would be coming to their town, he said, alluding to reports of violence in New Orleans after Katrina ...
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Hurricane Katrina's victims: Today's new slaves
African Path - Minneapolis,MN,USA
If the will is there then New Orleans and other below sea level areas can be protected and safe for people to live. The Army Core of Engineers are only ...
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Sweet Howard U. debate blog special. New Orleans right of return ...
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... of New Orleans and other gulf regions hurt by Hurricane Katrina..based on United Nations standards dealing with internally displaced populations. ...
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Some oil firms leave New Orleans - but others stay
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
A recent survey by New Orleans CityBusiness magazine found that 12 of 23 publicly traded companies headquartered in New Orleans had left since Katrina, ...
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Katrina's Kids: School Supplies for New Orleans
NewsChannel 9 WSYR - Syracuse,NY,USA
Even though the wrath of Hurricane Katrina is over, its effects are still lingering through school districts. Many kids will start out their school year ...
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Wild Is the Wind
New York Times - United States
After Hurricane Katrina thrashed his mother's New Orleans house, Mooney began reporting on the messy process by which scientists are reaching consensus on ...
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Giuliani links terror, border security
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... news conference at the site of one of the levee breeches that caused severe flooding during Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, Saturday, June 30, 2007. ...
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Harry Connick Jr. worried about future of traditional jazz in New ...
News1130 - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
MONTREAL (CP) - Hurricane Katrina nearly swept away the jazz traditions of New Orleans along with the rest of the city, but native son Harry Connick Jr. ...
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Charges Refiled Against Ex-nopd Officer
Guardian Unlimited - UK
>From AP NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Prosecutors have refiled charges against a former police officer accused in a videotaped beating of a man after Hurricane Katrina ...
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Giuliani Says Border Security Critical
Washington Post - United States
AP NEW ORLEANS -- The car bomb scare in London and the attack Saturday at the Glasgow airport underscore the need for a strong immigration policy in the ...
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