Topic: Hurricane Katrina
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Developers and business owners are flocking to New Orleans, thanks to factors that can be traced back to Hurricane Katrina, an event that shook the old ways of doing business in the city and created opportunities for experimentation."It ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One New Orleans hospital saw a jump in heart attacks following Hurricane Katrina -- and three years later, the rate was still elevated, a new study finds.Researchers at Tulane University Hospital found that over the three years following ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Jury deliberations may begin on Thursday in the federal perjury trial of two New Orleans police officers accused of lying about the killing of a civilian in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.The trial is among the ...
A former New Orleans police officer was sentenced to five years in prison for helping cover up a deadly shooting in the days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005.Ten New Orleans police officers have been convicted in a federal ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for "Salvage the Bones," about a poor Mississippi family confronting Hurricane Katrina, while Stephen Greenblatt took the nonfiction prize for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern."Ward ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deaths and health problems from floods, drought and other disasters related to climate change cost an estimated $14 billion over the last decade, researchers said on Monday."When extreme weather hits, we hear about the property damage and insurance costs ...
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regrets having gone shoe-shopping and out for a night at the theater while Hurricane Katrina ravaged the US Gulf coast, she wrote in excerpts of her memoir released Sunday.In "No Higher Honor: A Memoir of ...
German automaker Mercedes-Benz announced a 10-year deal with the NFL's New Orleans Saints on Tuesday to buy naming rights for the Superdome, once a symbol of Hurricane Katrina's horror.The deal will ensure the 73,000-seat stadium bears the corporate ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate committee advanced a bill to approve billions of dollars in funding for national flood insurance just weeks before the troubled program is set to expire and as a series of storms swamps the country.The bill would reform ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Louisiana Gulf Coast towns and inland waterways struggled with flooding on Monday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee continued to test flood barriers but the city of New Orleans remained in fairly good shape.Jerry Sneed, deputy mayor ...
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