Hurricane Katrina

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On Monday August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana and later became the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States. As the story goes, the most severe loss of life and property damage occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana.  

During a speech yesterday, Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez seemed to compare the team's troubles with Hurricane Katrina. While speaking he addressed reports that led to an NCAA investigation of possible rule violations: "It's really kind of ironic that the New Orleans Saints overcame the hurricane a few years back," Rodriguez said, referring to Hurricane Katrina, which damaged large sections of the Gulf Coast in 2005. "I used to live...  

From the weather satellites it looked every inch an act of God: a giant doughnut of low pressure and high winds churning towards New Orleans. Four years on, a judge has ruled that the flooding of the city by Hurricane Katrina was, in large part, a man-made disaster.  

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could make the federal government vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval sided with six residents and one business who argued the Army Corps' shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the...  

CHICO -- Walter Goodwin had hugs for everyone Friday when he met with some of the Chico State University students who helped rebuild his family home in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina flattened neighborhoods in the Lower 9th Ward.  

STORY AND PHOTO BY DIANE C. BEAUDOIN Even though it has been four years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast devastating everything in it's path, one group of locals is once again packing some belongings to head south to continue the work that has been ongoing since that storm claimed so many homes.read more  

Washington - A federal judge has awarded 720,000 dollars in damages to several victims of Hurricane Katrina, in an apparent precedent-setting ruling against the US Army Corps of Engineers. US District Judge Stanwood R Duval Jrfound in favour of four ...  

As President Obama's approval rating dips below 50 percent, his devoted followers in the media also appear to be losing that loving feeling.Over the weekend it was Chris "Tingles Up My Leg" Matthews calling the former object of his affection "Carteresque."On Tuesday it was Arianna Huffington -- who has spent the entire year pushing for government-run healthcare as well as cap and trade! -- asking an astoundingly dangerous question for such an...  

Remember those free health care clinics MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow played up back in October after Olbermann's hour-long "Special Comment," about Republican opposition to ObamaCare and/or PelosiCare? Well, now it's time for their brand of AstroTurf to be put into action. On MSNBC's Nov. 13 "Countdown," fill-in host Lawrence O'Donnell raised the issue about the potential opposition Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., might have over the...  

A federal trial judge has found the Army Corps of Engineers to have been grossly negligent, and the proximate cause of the flooding of the Lower 9th Ward and St. Bernard parish (both areas were virtually destroyed) during Hurricane Katrina....  

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The federal government is continuing its auctions of travel trailers left in the Pine Belt area following Hurricane Katrina. The Hattiesburg American reports the United States General Services Administration has put up a single lot of 465 trailers at ...  

December 1, 2009 -- The city of New Orleans said Boh Bros. Construction of New Orleans has begun a $1.8 million rehabilitation of Jourdan Avenue. The Lower 9th Ward...  

November 21, 2009 -- Tourists in New Orleans' French Quarter and Garden District would be hard pressed to see Hurricane Katrina damage if they didn't go looking for it....