Louisiana Missionary Baptist State Convention comes to New Orleans a year after electing president from Crescent City

07/08/11 A year after delegates elected their first president from New Orleans, the 138-year-old Louisiana Missionary Baptist State Convention comes to the Crescent City for a week of spiritual study, sermons and songs.   Pastor C.S. Gordon Jr. Pastor C.S. Gordon...

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Satirist Harry Shearer gets serious when it comes to the flood in New Orleans

07/10/11 When Barack Obama visited New Orleans in October 2009, the new president gave speeches in which he kept referring to Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of 80 percent of the Crescent City as a "natural disaster."

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Racing to recovery from March 11 tsunami: Need for successful crab season never greater in Crescent City

07/10/11 Editors note: This is the first in a two-part series detailing Crescent City's struggle to recover from the destruction of its boat basin in the wake of the tsunami of March 11.

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