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The national touring company of The Color Purple has raised over $300,000 to put New Orleans families back into their homes after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Crescent City in 2005.
About a handful of students and staff from Job Corps' Shreveport center joined Habitat for Humanity volunteers, AmeriCorps members and students from Job Corps centers across the country to construct three homes for Hurricane Katrina survivors. A total of 19 homes will have been constructed by years end.
AL ANDREWS, who lives on Tennessee Street in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, said he didn't mind the tour buses coming through his neighborhood, but he wished the visitors "would give some of what they pay to the community." Mr. Andrews lives in one of the brightly colored, modernist houses rising on a small patch of the Lower Ninth, four years after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Ask residents of New Orleans who they think was responsible for the drowning of their city during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and without hesitation many will say the Army Corps of Engineers. U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. backed that assessment in a blistering ruling last week that held the federal agency liable for damages. After...
MIDDLEBORO — North Congregational Church will once again be sending a team to New Orleans to aid in an area of the country still reeling after Hurricane Katrina. Although it has been four years since the devastating hurricane, New Orleans and its...
NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association was created to distribute the winning purses at the state's four racetracks. It also provides benefits such as pension funds and insurance to more than 6000 workers in the racing industry. Orleans Clerk of Court Arthur Morrell is a horse owner and a 15-year member of the LHBPA board, serving until March of last year ...
ACORN is now well-known across America, but what most Americans know about it is wrong. Most mainstream journalism organizations have been negligent by repeating, rather than fact-checking, spurious allegations.
Beaches Hair Studio opens in Old Town
WAVELAND — A couple trying to reclaim waterfront property devastated by Hurricane Katrina spent $206,500 for a home that is uninhabitable. To make matters worse, they have been evicted from the Mississippi cottage that sat behind the house. They had planned to be in the cottage until their home was rebuilt, but they ran out of time to finish.
SLIDELL, La. – FEMA says it will pay to rebuild one of St. Tammany oldest and most historic homes. The Cousin House along Bayou Liberty near Slidell was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina. For more than four years, the homeowners battled with FEMA, and got the good news earlier this month. "That was on Friday the 13th," said Charlotte Collins, "and it was fantastic." Collins' father, Bill ...
Rusty Costanza/The Times-Picayune Claudia Galicia, second from left, Erick Garcia, fourth from left, Patricia Garcia, second from right, and Fernando Sanchez, right, are laden with packages while shopping Friday at Esplanade Mall in Kenner.
People in Fargo and Moorhead have a $962 million plan for easing flooding from the Red River of the North: Just dig another river.
Runtime: 97 min. In a culture where advertising hype is more ubiquitous—seemingly more "real"—than the movies themselves, The Princess and the Frog ’s feels like the ultimate betrayal: It’s classic Bait-and-Switch.
Exactly 149 plates were cleaned off Wednesday night at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 1010 Fleming St., during its annual Thanksgiving meal, the sixth year the church has hosted the community get-together.
“According to a new U.N. report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet." — Jay Leno, 2006HARRISON, TENN. — For a long time, most of us...
Poor crisis leadership was on display after Hurricane Katrina and during the financial crisis.
