New Orleans justice system struggles
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Their faces glisten with sweat, their red-rimmed eyes stare ahead vacantly as they&#039;re herded into the sweltering room where another day of court is about to begin.
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Things are looking up for six black teens charged with trying to kill a white classmate last year after a Louisiana court vacated the conviction of one of the men. But national civil-rights advocates say something remains very amiss in the small town.
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New Orleans is a city on a knife's edge. A year and a half after Hurricane Katrina, an alarming number of residents are leaving or seriously thinking of getting out for good.
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The route to the moon and perhaps to Mars now goes through New Orleans Â and the detour couldn't come at a better time in the city's struggle to rebuild its shattered economy after Hurricane Katrina.
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Prosecutors said on Thursday they  would not seek the death penalty for four New Orleans police  officers charged with shooting dead two people on a bridge  shortly after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city.
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The Supreme Court made it harder Thursday for most defendants to challenge their federal prison sentences.
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Like New Orleans and its ravaged economy, Liberty Bank and Trust Company has a long way to go in its recovery.
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By FELICIA THOMAS-LYNN  The Rev. Joseph Jackson Jr. is on a crusade.  Standing amid the rubble and the thick stench permeating the air of New Orleans' lower ninth ward a year after Hurricane Katrina, the Milwaukee central city minister made a vow.
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Investigations for the International Criminal Court's first trial face serious logistical and security obstacles as well as charges of selective justice.
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The appointment of this city's first inspector general is the latest in a list of government reforms since Hurricane Katrina &#151; one some observers say reflects the waning of the public's long-standing tolerance of political corruption and waste.
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There's an old saying, "Justice delayed is justice denied." But in the case of three civil rights workers slain in Mississippi four decades ago, some say time may be on justice's side.
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A Louisiana judge Thursday backed off for now a threat to release New Orleans inmates who have been jailed for months without court dates or lawyers, but said the district attorney must begin weeding out cases he has no chance of winning.
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A lack of cooperation with police is a major roadblock Mayor Cory A. Booker faces in his struggle to curb the lawlessness in Newark.
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The recovery of New Orleans slowly  drags on two years after Hurricane Katrina but one thing back  in full swing since the killer storm is crime, particularly  murders.
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Two brothers accused in a quadruple shooting were arrested as this city struggles to rein in crime after Hurricane Katrina, police said Friday.
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Campaigning for office is typically a shoe-leather exercise, with lots of walking through neighborhoods and knocking on doors. But that's not easily done in some of New Orleans' devastated and largely depopulated sections.
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Officials in New Jersey who are struggling to combat witness intimidation have long been concerned about cases involving one lawyerâs clients, many of them gang members.