Hurricane Katrina

Vitter is calling on Reid to apologize; Landrieu is saying that Reid misspoke.

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A Hammond woman has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining funds from the American Red Cross after Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Lance Africk yesterday also ordered 31-year-old Lafreda Winston to pay full restitution to the Red Cross.

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More money is coming to help Louisiana communities still recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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The federal government is seeking to overturn a 2009 ruling that found the Army Corps of Engineers responsible for massive flooding after Hurricane Katrina because it failed to properly maintain a navigation channel.

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It was six years ago today that Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, tearing through everything in its path, causing billions of dollars in damages.

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Hurricane Katrina is still harming residents of New Orleans. 

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BELLE CHASSE, La. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says it will meet a deadline it gave itself after Hurricane Katrina to greatly improve the New Orleans area's hurricane protection system by the start of the 2011 hurricane season.

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WASHINGTON – In a letter to President Barack Obama, United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today joined 13 Senate colleagues to once again press the administration to address the shortfall in the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF). 

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has refused to disqualify a lawyer from representing one of six current or former New Orleans police officers charged in deadly shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina.

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