Seattle Post Intelligencer - Gross negligence in failing to assist New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina, in ignoring urgent warnings of an al-Qaida attack prior to Sept. 11, 2001, and in increasing air pollution causing global warming.
Rebuilding Biloxi
Chicago Sun-Times - BILOXI, Miss. — Some travel moments are too powerful to be framed by a camera or postcard. They draw a tear and run as deep as a promise. This is how it is when noted Biloxi potter Brian Nettles explains how Hurricane Katrina changed his work
Bayou Boeuf family will be on the air again
Daily Comet - And that might not hurt the swamp-tour business, which, along with other tourism endeavors, has seen a decline since Hurricane Katrina. The program s two episodes featuring the locals, which put the little community of Kraemer on the national map
Inspector General to investigate Road Home contract
New Orleans Times-Picayune - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) The Louisiana inspector general said Monday that he will investigate the contract increase granted to the private company running the state’s Road Home recovery program for victims of Hurricane Katrina and Rita. Inspector
Miss. governor signs bill requiring checks on immigrants’ status
Biloxi Sun Herald - He also said Mississippi’s Hurricane Katrina recovery had gotten a boost from immigrant workers. But in the final weeks of the campaign, Barbour ran ads saying he would enforce immigration laws in the state.
‘King of Torts’ pleads guilty to trying to bribe judge
Boston Globe - Scruggs and another lawyer in his firm, Sidney Backstrom, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud for offering a $50,000 cash bribe to a Mississippi judge for a favorable ruling in a dispute over legal fees from a Hurricane Katrina insurance lawsuit.
Searchers find WWII German warship
CNN - CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A search for an Australian navy battle cruiser lost in 1941 has led to the wreck of the virginia tech 3 weather 4 owen wilson 5 wolf blitzer 6 fidel castro 7 miss teen south carolina 8 michael vick 9 immigration 10 hurricane
Pat Metheny hits all the right notes with trio lineup
Boston Herald - Before closing with a new fusion-like piece, Backarm and Blackcharge, Metheny picked up an acoustic guitar for the hurricane Is This America? (Katrina 2005), a simultaneously melancholic and soulful melody fortified by McBride s bowed
Vestiges of bayou culture disappear in hurricane Katrina’s aftermath
Canada East - GRAND BAYOU, La. - When Ruby Ancar talks about her fishing village on the bayou, she says a divine hand has protected her Atakapa-Ishak kinfolk for generations. But Grand Bayou is forsaken these days, 30 months after hurricane Katrina washed over it