New Orleans grieves those lost to Hurricane Katrina
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US President George W. Bush visited New Orleans Wednesday as the devastated city marked two years since hurricane-driven waters washed out entire neighborhoods, killing some 1,100 people.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW ORLEANS - Water is unforgiving to the dead and by the time the crews arrived, the men were missing their eyes.
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Less than a week before the next hurricane season starts, firefighters still searching for those missing after Hurricane Katrina have found another body.
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As the incoming governor prayed for strength to lead Louisiana through its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, the city's infirm gathered at a Mass to pray for their own healing and honor the 19th century priest many call the saint of New Orleans.
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BILOXI, Miss., Aug. 28 -- A year after Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi and Louisiana, President Bush and Democratic leaders are converging on the Gulf Coast this week to commemorate the losses while continuing the political argument over the federal response to the country's largest...
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President Bush bowed his head in prayer Tuesday to remember the hundreds who perished in Hurricane Katrina, a disaster that forever changed the Gulf Coast &#151; and his presidency.
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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco went to New Orleans last August to oversee the opening of the city's first housing-assistance center aimed at people whose homes were destroyed or damaged by Hurricane Katrina. "This is not just a real estate transaction, but an emotional transaction as we...
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More than two years after Hurricane Katrina hit, going home to New Orleans has become a receding dream for thousands of evacuees.
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Breakfasting on beignets in the French Quarter on a Sunday morning, Dorothy Washington was a tourism official's dream &#151; she saw none of the scars that still mark most of New Orleans 11 months after Hurricane Katrina and she had heard nothing about six weekend shooting deaths.
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New Orleans will mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Wednesday with candle light vigils, prayer services and a new memorial to the 1,500 or so people who died in her floodwaters and fury.
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Singing &quot;We shall overcome,&quot; sorrowful residents and religious leaders accompanied by an old New Orleans brass band walked up a repaired levee and put their hands on a new flood wall Monday in a Memorial Day remembrance for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Thousands of people took to New Orleans' streets as Mardi Gras celebrations brightened a city still struggling to rebuild from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina.
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The first victims of Hurricane Katrina never felt the raging winds, never saw the floodwaters. They were two elderly nursing-home residents who died on a school bus that took three hours to load and five hours to travel from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
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On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, anger over the stalled rebuilding was palpable throughout a city where the mourning for the dead and feeling of loss for flooded homes, schools, snowball stands, old-time hairstylists and hardware stores doesn't seem to subside.
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Twice a day, the tourists come. They smile -- striking poses on the severed porch just yards from where Robert Green says Ditty died with his two kids. Two years after Green lost everything -- family and possessions -- the gawkers are another reminder of just how far from normal his life is after Katrina.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29 -- Church bells pealed at 9:38 a.m. here Tuesday, the moment floodwaters breached the city's levees a year ago, as the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina cast a funereal pall over this half-empty city.
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The sweat and donations from religious groups are bringing hope and new homes to many residents in this tiny community, still struggling two years after Hurricane Katrina left much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast in ruins.