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07/19/11 BILOXI -- A Mississippi State University architecture professor who helped in the coastal rebuilding effort after Hurricane Katrina is being honored today at the White House.
07/15/11 Don't tell Harry Shearer that it was 'a natural disaster' Harry Shearer says his "head exploded" 20 months ago. That's when he heard President Barack Obama, during a town hall meeting in New Orleans, refer to the flooding of the city after Hurricane Katrina as "a natural disaster."
07/13/11 A bullet removed from the body of a teenager gunned down on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina matched an assault rifle used by a police officer charged in the deadly shootings, a firearms expert testified Wednesday.
07/12/11 The Associated Press Recent editorials from Louisiana newspapers: July 11 The Times Picayune, New Orleans, on military disaster training: New Orleans area residents know first-hand the confusion that can result when active-duty military troops and National Guard troops respond to a disaster. The disconnect between the two caused problems during Hurricane Katrina, including a 24-hour delay in ...
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."
07/09/11 Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin writes in a new memoir that he was the only one to understand how to recover from Hurricane Katrina, and that he endured plots against him and incompetence around him as he set his plan in motion.
07/09/11 Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin writes in a new memoir that he was the only one to understand how to recover from Hurricane Katrina, and that he endured plots against him and incompetence around him as he set his plan in...
07/09/11 Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin writes in a new memoir that he was the only one to understand how to recover from Hurricane Katrina, and that he endured plots against him and incompetence around him as he set his plan in motion.
07/07/11 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said Wednesday that it would hand out $62 million to 1,460 Louisiana homeowners to settle a lawsuit that alleged a Hurricane Katrina rebuilding program was unfair to blacks and left many people unable to rebuild in neighborhoods like the Lower 9th Ward after the 2005 storm.
07/07/11 Hurricane Katrina victims alleged that the Road Home program was discriminatory. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced Wednesday that the agency would pay a $62 million settlement to 1,460 Hurricane Katrina victims who sued the federal government and the state of Louisiana for alleged discrimination in the Road Home program, which provided grants to people to rebuild ...
07/07/11 A police officer told how he saw two wounded women lying on the ground after he and colleagues had fired at unarmed civilians in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
07/06/11 Nearly six years after Hurricane Katrina, the mobile homes that became a symbol of the government's failed response are finally being put to good use. FEMA has quietly given many of them away to American Indian tribes that are in desperate need of affordable housing.
07/06/11 The first four days of testimony in the Danziger Bridge shooting case gave jurors and the public a glimpse into the horrific incident that took place on the eastern New Orleans bridge just days after Hurricane Katrina.
07/06/11 Triangle - Research from North Carolina State University shows that organized sports can be a powerful tool for helping to rebuild communities in the wake of disasters. The research focused specifically on the role of professional football in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
07/05/11 Bad policy doomed New Orleans, says muckraking Katrina doc. by Kelly Vance Except by the people of New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast, the Hurricane Katrina debacle has largely been filed away in the national vault of mishaps, and forgotten. That 2005 disaster, if thought about at all by the public, exists under a variety of ominous headings having to do with global warming, racism ...
07/05/11 CHICAGO - In 2006, the American Library Association ( ALA ) held its Annual Conference in New Orleans. It was the first major convention in the city since Hurricane Katrina.
07/04/11 PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- The Defense Department is grooming a new type of commander to coordinate the military response to domestic disasters, hoping to save lives by avoiding some of the chaos that plagued the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort.
07/03/11 The Defense Department is grooming a new type of commander to coordinate the military response to domestic disasters, hoping to save lives by avoiding some of the chaos that plagued the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort.
07/01/11 As we near the six year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one more scar of the storm's destruction is being removed in Biloxi. This week, demolition of the old Point Cadet fishing pier began. And the broken pieces of that bridge will benefit fishermen.
07/01/11 KYW's John McDevitt reports that many New Jersey coastal communities have stronger building standards in place today because of earlier hurricanes -- notably Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
06/30/11 A former New Orleans police officer who pleaded guilty to helping cover up the deadly shootings of unarmed people on a bridge in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath says he fired two shots at a teenager who didn't pose a... | 
