HURRICANE KATRINA AFTERMATH
Residents of Gulfport, MS who lost property due to Hurricane Katrina search through donated goods on September 5, 2005. Hurricane Katrina caused extensive damage all along the Mississippi gulf coast. (UPI Photo/Mark Wolfe/FEMA)
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A vacant 200-year-old Canadian church in west-central Nova Scotia is being dismantled and shipped to Louisiana to replace one lost to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Contractors have finished the first phase of a massive barrier closing Mr. Go, the canal connecting New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico.
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A new attorney has taken over the defense of a high-rolling gambler facing criminal charges for his unpaid Las Vegas casino tab, court records show.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Some New Orleans residents jailed during the confusion after Hurricane Katrina appear to have lost their due process rights, documents indicate.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Grit and hard work resulted in a New Orleans elementary school doing better now than before Hurricane Katrina ravaged it, President Barack Obama said Thursday.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- New Orleans' slow recovery from Hurricane Katrina may be analogous to the slow recovery the U.S. economy is experiencing, President Obama said Thursday.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama this week will visit the only school to reopen in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward since Hurricane Katrina, the White House said.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Four years after Hurricane Katrina pummeled America's Gulf Coast, President Barack Obama said Saturday the nation must better prepare for disasters.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Tourism officials in New Orleans say the city is attracting visitors this year despite the recession and is bouncing back from 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
ATLANTA, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Births dropped in the year after Hurricane Katrina in areas of Louisiana and Mississippi that were hit but rose in affected parts of Alabama, researchers say.
