HURRICANE KATRINA AFTERMATH
St. Bernard teacher Rhonda Jones (L) is greeted by first lady Laura Bush, Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling, and St. Bernard school superintendent Doris Voitier during a visit to St. Bernard Unified School in Chalmette, Louisiana January 26, 2006. The school is the only one to reopen in St. Bernard Parish since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area last year. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco)
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COVINGTON, La., May 3 (UPI) -- A suburban New Orleans judge arrested on corruption charges had been involved in some of St. Bernard Parish's most infamous legal cases, observers say.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Gustav weakened to a tropical storm Monday night and all coastal warnings were discontinued, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A New Orleans man who evacuated his former home in St. Bernard Parish before Hurricane Katrina said he was shocked to find his name on a memorial for the dead.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. television and stage star Taye Diggs led a holiday caroling celebration this week as 10 families returned to newly rebuilt homes in New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Louisiana agricultural officials said more Africanized honeybees, also known as "killer bees" have been found in traps east of New Orleans.
ST. FRANCISVILLE, La., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- The prosecution rested Wednesday in the trial of two owners of a Louisiana nursing home in which 35 elderly residents died during Hurricane Katrina flooding.
ST. FRANCISVILLE, La., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- In the negligent homicide trial of nursing home operators, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Louisiana relied on private citizens to flee Hurricane Katrina.
ST. FRANCISVILLE, La., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The married owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home where dozens died during Hurricane Katrina are now on trial, charged with 35 counts of negligent homicide.
ST. FRANCISVILLE, La., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Jury selection started Monday for the trial of a New Orleans couple who own the nursing home where 35 people died during Hurricane Katrina.
BOSTON, May 22 (UPI) -- The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston honored two local officials for helping victims of hurricanes and Katrina.
