More than four years after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures caused widespread flooding in New Orleans, two lawsuits filed in federal court over suburban police agencies' decision to bar people ...

At the time, the New Orleans Police Department saw the shootings at the Danziger Bridge as a turning point in its attempt to recapture the city from criminals running amok amid the confusion after ...

NEW ORLEANS – One of the seven policemen charged in a deadly gunfight on a bridge during the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina had previously been charged with murder in the 2001 death of a ...

In the midst of the insanity that was Hurricane Katrina, families fled their homes to get above the rising water. Scared and frightened many chose to walk the Danziger Bridge that led to higher ground ...

You don't have to read far into Judge Edith Jones' Danziger Bridge decision before you encounter a falsehood. Jones, in the second sentence of her decision for a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Two years ago, cities on the opposite sides of Biloxi Bay clashed over blueprints for a wider, taller bridge to replace a highway span demolished by Hurricane Katrina's storm ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - July 13, 2010 Six current or former officers are charged in a 27-count indictment unsealed Tuesday. Five former New Orleans police officers already have pleaded guilty to helping ...

Among the most indelible images in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were news photos of desperate people atop houses, bridges, whatever high ground they could reach, waving their arms and pleading ...

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This story, headlined "Bridge exposes racial divide," was originally published Sept. 22, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The Times-Picayune's ...

Katrina: The Bridge did not need the violent incursion of Hurricane Ike to convince Houston audiences of its relevance. The world premiere based on interviews with Hurricane Katrina survivors, opening ...