La. gov. to testify in Katrina deaths
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco recounted the state's preparations for Hurricane Katrina as she testified Tuesday in the trial of two nursing home owners charged in the drowning deaths of patients who weren't evacuated during the storm.
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ST. FRANCISVILLE, Louisiana  - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home were found not guilty of all charges on Friday in the deaths of 35 residents who drowned in one of the worst tragedies of Hurricane Katrina.
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By Anita Lee, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 4--GULFPORT -- State Farm and policyholder Michael McCoy settled a Hurricane Katrina case before the start of a scheduled trial this morning in U.S. District Court.   Katrina swept away McCoy's home, leaving only a slab.
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin is expected to testify at the Gomery public inquiry into the federal sponsorship program, an inquiry spokesman said Tuesday.
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The Orleans Parish coroner said Thursday he cannot classify as homicides the deaths of four patients who died at a New Orleans hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Louisiana raised its Hurricane Katrina death toll by 281 Friday to 1,577 after including more out-of-state evacuees whose deaths were deemed related to the storm or its grueling aftermath.
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New Orleans' coroner said Thursday he has the material he needs to present findings to a grand jury that will consider indictments against a doctor and two nurses accused of killing patients in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina.
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CHALMETTE, La., Sept. 20 -- The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home where 35 people drowned in one of the worst tragedies of Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to multiple charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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A man accused of murdering five women in Suffolk is to take to the witness box to give evidence at his trial.
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The owners of a nursing home where 35 people died in the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina will likely go on trial in St. Francisville, 120 miles northwest of where the victims died.
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By Anonymous  Louisiana environmental scientists today briefed Capitol Hill  lawmakers about the damaging effects of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and the necessary steps to close it.
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The case of Mychal Bell, a black teenager accused of beating a white classmate in Jena, Louisiana, will be heard in juvenile court, Louisiana's governor announced Wednesday.
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US President George W. Bush next week will visit New Orleans and parts of the Mississippi coast ravaged two years ago by Hurricane Katrina, the White House said Friday.
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Two nurses accused in the post-Katrina deaths of four patients at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center have been offered immunity to testify before a special grand jury, sources close to the investigation tell CNN. Family members said staffers used drugs to kill patients so they could flee appalling conditions after the storm. The immunity deal could signal is the main target of the investigation is Dr. Anna Pou, a physician who was under contract with Memorial Medical Center when Katrina struck.
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To Louisiana's attorney general, the doctor and two nurses arrested this past week are murderers. But many in the medical community are outraged at the arrests, saying the three caregivers are heroes who faced unimaginable horrors as Hurricane Katrina flooded the city and trapped them and their patients.
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A survey taken the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck showed that more than half of the homes questioned had decided against evacuating. But a jury hearing the case against the owners of a home where 35 patients died in Katrina's floods may never see the document.