Hurricane Katrina

A bar standing in the way of a contentious hospital development to replace hospitals damaged by Hurricane Katrina has been seized by city officials.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans police sergeant who admitted lying to the FBI in its probe of a deadly police shooting after Hurricane Katrina has resigned.

The former director of aviation at New Orleans' Louis Armstrong International Airport has pleaded guilty in a Hurricane Katrina insurance fraud case.

WASHINGTON— United States Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La, today urged FEMA to be fair in its effort to recoup money from people suspected of receiving improper federal disaster assistance payments following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other disasters.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has cleared Baton Rouge police officers who were accused of harassing African Americans, using unnecessary violence and conducting illegal searches after Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A government audit says the Federal Emergency Management Agency hasn't tried to collect roughly $643 million in improper payments made to victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The state agency that runs most public schools in New Orleans plans a series of meetings in that city's five council districts to gather opinions on plans for new and renovated school buildings.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The era of the FEMA trailer — a symbol of the prolonged rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina — might be drawing to a close in New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS - The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Louisiana Recovery Office will donate furniture to the first of seven nonprofits, Calcasieu Unmet Needs Committee, on Monday, Jan. 3, 2010, at 8 a.m. at FEMA's Sherwood Staging facility in Baton Rouge.

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Atlanta star Roddy White says he regrets sending a Tweet referring to Hurricane Katrina as the Falcons prepare for a big game against the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints.

Citrus from Louisiana is now in season.

A federal court judge agreed today to allow two New Orleans police officers convicted on charges related to the death of a man after Hurricane Katrina. They'll remain free on a 100-thousand-dollar property bond until they're sentenced in March...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — When Congress set up a tax-free recovery bond program after hurricanes Katrina and Rita to help spur private business development, applications poured in and it appeared demand would far exceed Louisiana's $7.8 billion bond capacity.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Ponchatoula man has pleaded guilty to defrauding the American Red Cross of more than $13,000 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former New Orleans police sergeant has denied a friend's allegation she lied to a grand jury because she held a grudge against one of the five current or former officers charged in a deadly police shooting after Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Defense attorneys have finished calling witnesses in the trial for five current or former New Orleans police officers charged in a man's fatal shooting after Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former New Orleans Police officer, who pleaded guilty to helping to cover up the deadly shootings of unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge after Hurricane Katrina, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One of the two New Orleans police officers charged with burning a police shooting victim's body after Hurricane Katrina says he was shocked when his colleague set the fire.