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Associated Press - December 3, 2009 1:54 PM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Mississippi man has been charged with fraudulently receiving $138,400 in federal loan money after Hurricane Katrina.
A gratefully relieved Earl Bullock leaned back in a chair of the conference area at Bassfield City Hall on Thursday, looking a bit like the kid who found the gift he really wanted under the tree on Christmas morning.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says the city inspector general's office has gotten "overly political" and its work is shoddy. meeting with Nagin.
New Orleans and its Saints have added new chapters to their colorful histories since Hurricane Katrina struck more than four years ago. Perhaps not as dramatically but just as steadily, so has Washington Redskins offensive lineman D'Anthony Batiste. A reserve, Batiste is expected to be in uniform Sunday when the Saints try to remain unbeaten against the Redskins at FedEx Field. He might not play ...
Charlie Miller has released an album of Christmas music rendered by solo trumpet.Sitting in his Bucktown apartment in 2004, trumpeter Charlie Miller dialed in the online broadcast of a radio station in the French Alps. He thought his then-current...
Oklahoma City (10-8) has beaten five teams that reached the playoffs last year. Though that doesn't guarantee anything for this season, it has ratcheted up the expectations and the excitement around the team.
Township philanthropist and entrepreneur Jenny Silver, 13, will hold her Fifth Annual Bowling for Bears fundraiser on Sunday.
WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the House Oversight committee on Thursday challenged Louisiana officials about what the state is doing to financially help itself and asked whether the state is becoming a "permanent ward of the federal government" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Friday, Dec. 4, 2009.
Movie openings and capsule reviews
This time of year our thoughts turn to home. Our home is our safe place; home is where the heart is at the end a long journey or the end of the day. When it is all said and done, we just want to go home!
It’s getting to look a lot like Christmas in Slidell, and beginning next week Olde Towne will look like a winter wonderland as the 22nd annual Christmas Under the Stars celebration gets underway for the holiday season.
Growing citrus on a commercial level is not something you expect to see north of Covington, but one grower is proving it can be done – if the weather is favorable.
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BEVERLY and mdash; The First Baptist Church is showing a movie about the environmental impacts of the coal industry in Appalachia to raise money for a service trip there. About 40 people have signed up to go to Oak Hill, W.Va., in August, where they'll be repairing houses for "people struggling from chronic poverty," minister Beth Loughhead said.
Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their country's national identity.
