- Post-Katrina ‘vigilante’ violence: rumor or fact?
- September 4, 2009
- Looters, rogue cops, rifle-toting vigilante militias, and homes protected by jerry-rigged alarm systems made of empty strung-together beer cans.
- Obama: No turf wars, red tape in post-Katrina
- August 30, 2009
- President Barack Obama marked the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday by pledging to make sure that turf wars and red tape don’t slow the pace of the continuing recovery.
- Strings attached: Fiddler moves to national stage while reminding audience of New Orleans’ needs
- August 18, 2009
- It wasn’t your typical 18th birthday party.
- Guard leaving New Orleans 3 1/2 years after Katrina
- February 28, 2009
- Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weekend, leaving behind a city still desperate and dangerous. Residents long distrustful of the city’s police force are worried they will have to fend for themselves.
- ‘Katrina’ pastor giving up promotion
- February 16, 2009
- A pastor who created a controversy by suggesting that God punished New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina because of the city’s sins said Sunday he will ask the pope to rescind his promotion. Pope Benedict XVI’s recent appointment of the conservative Rev. Gerhard Maria Wagner, 54, to auxiliary bishop in Linz, Austria’s third largest city, sparked an outcry among Catholics who warned it could prompt people to leave the church.
- New Orleans ponders cutting cleanup costs
- January 9, 2009
- Since Hurricane Katrina, the beer-soaked, urine-splashed, puke-puddled French Quarter has been scrubbed clean. But with the city facing tough financial times, it may no longer be able to afford to pay for all the services of an army of sanitation workers who pick up after the partying.
- Ex-refugee 1st Vietnamese-American congressman
- January 7, 2009
- When Anh “Joseph” Cao was 8 and Saigon was about to fall, his mother asked if he wanted to take a trip to the beach.
- Man’s last lotto ticket wins $10M for widow
- January 4, 2009
- On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family. Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury.
- Ex-Bush aides call Katrina ‘nail in coffin’
- December 30, 2008
- Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government’s poor handling of the natural disaster.
- Post Office resuming Operation Santa
- December 20, 2008
- Operation Santa is resuming at the post office. The program in which volunteers reply to children’s letters to Santa was suspended after what the Postal Service said was a “privacy breach” in New York on Tuesday. In that incident a postal worker recognized one of the volunteers as a registered sex offender. A postal inspector retrieved the child’s letter before the individual could answer it.
- County emergency making sure ‘Nobody is Left Behind’
- New program aims to ensure no vulnerable residents abandoned in emergency
- November 17, 2008
- Six months after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Kansas University professor Glen White visited the area for a research project.
- EPA tightens standard for airborne lead
- October 17, 2008
- Three decades after removing lead from gasoline, the Environmental Protection Agency is slashing the amount of the toxic metal that will be allowed in the nation’s air by 90 percent. EPA officials, under a federal court order to set a new standard by midnight Wednesday, said the limit would better protect public health, especially for children.
- Red Cross deep in debt after recent storms
- September 12, 2008
- The wave of storms battering the U.S. has plunged the American Red Cross deep into debt as it rushes to prepare for Hurricane Ike, prompting a searching look at how to stabilize its finances.
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