New Orleans News
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Former Katrina officer brought to justice, may face prison time
1:48 PM on 02/25/2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In Hurricane Katrina's chaotic aftermath, police shot six people -- killing two -- as they crossed a bridge in search of food...
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Ex-cop pleads guilty in Katrina killings probe
5:46 PM on 02/24/2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A former police lieutenant pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice after federal officials say he helped cover for officers who killed two people in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina...
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Chilly weather can't stop Mardi Gras in New Orleans
10:21 AM on 02/16/2010
VIDEO - Despite temperatures falling to the freezing mark overnight and not expected to get much above 50, Mardi Gras in New Orleans is staying hot...
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New Orleans teacher building 'Field of Dreams' in Ninth Ward
9:12 AM on 02/16/2010
New Orleans high school teacher Brian Bordainick, at only 24 years old, is making a lifetime's worth of difference in the city's Ninth Ward...
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'Ameriville': Stories of Hurricane Katrina still alive onstage
7:48 AM on 02/15/2010
OPINION - 'Ameriville', which is currently on tour, uses the colliding forces of race, class, and politics in post-Katrina New Orleans to explore America's moral zip code...
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Move over Ray Nagin, New Orleans has new mayor
9:12 AM on 02/08/2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Four years ago, Mitch Landrieu narrowly lost to Ray Nagin in a racially divisive election for mayor of Katrina-scarred New Orleans...
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The Super Bowl will unite people of Haiti and New Orleans
10:33 AM on 02/06/2010
OPINION - On Super Bowl Sunday, the people of Haiti and New Orleans will to stand side by side in allegiance...
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Obama heeding lessons of Katrina
2:40 PM on 01/15/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The botched federal response to Katrina is the standard by which emergency responses are measured, and presidents are held accountable...
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Race takes lead role in New Orleans contest
1:10 PM on 01/12/2010
From NYTimes.com Less than a month before the primary, the race for mayor here is a struggle over who will bring the soaring murder rate down, who will attract badly needed new businesses and who will guide the city in its still dauntingly long road to recovery. But it is...
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Katrina wrecks black political base, leaders say
4:27 PM on 01/08/2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The storm decimated once-thriving black, middle-class neighborhoods, undercutting efforts by black candidates to raise money and build voter support...
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Oops! T-Wolves announce trade prematurely
9:06 AM on 12/30/2009
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Minnesota Timberwolves' trade of backup point guard Jason Hart didn't exactly go as smoothly as planned...
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As health care talk continues, some spring to action
12:16 PM on 11/22/2009
OPINION - The lack of care that people experience has a price that we all must share beyond the price that they pay with their lives..
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Thousands may file legal action for Katrina floods
1:28 PM on 11/20/2009
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims...
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Disney's black princess historic, but for whom?
7:39 PM on 11/14/2009
NEW YORK (AP) - Holly Price Alford is over the moon about Disney's first black princess. Her 8-year-old daughter is, too, but not because the princess is black...
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Lil Wayne pleads to attempted gun possession
10:43 AM on 10/22/2009
NEW YORK (AP) - The Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne has pleaded guilty to attempted weapon possession, and expects to receive a one-year jail sentence...
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DNA test disputed in Lil Wayne gun case
8:40 AM on 10/22/2009
NEW YORK (AP) - Lil Wayne's gun possession case is putting a leading edge of DNA science under a microscope...
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Obama defends himself against New Orleans critics
2:07 PM on 10/15/2009
President Barack Obama defended himself Thursday against complaints from residents of New Orleans and the rest of the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast who feel recovery help has not come soon enough from his administration...
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Barbershop Buzz on Obama's visit to New Orleans
10:40 AM on 10/15/2009
VIDEO - Will President Obama's visit to New Orleans speed the recovery progress?
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New Orleans still waits for change from Obama
9:01 AM on 10/15/2009
OPINION - Today the city of New Orleans welcomes President Barack Obama. New Orleanians are ready to walk with the President along streets in their neighborhood...
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Civil rights icon fights for school that tried to shut her out
1:19 PM on 10/05/2009
In 1960, Ruby Bridges was only 6 when she walked passed an angry mob to become the first black student at William Frantz, an all white school in New Orleans. Now, Ruby is working to reopen the doors that once threatened to shut her out...
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Black Caucus wants more from Obama
VIDEO - Several caucus members feel strongly that the president is not listening to their concerns...
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