La. nursing home owners indicted in Katrina deaths
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The owners of a New Orleans-area  nursing home were indicted on charges of negligent homicide  late on Wednesday in the drowning deaths of 35 residents during  Hurricane Katrina.
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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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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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All charges against a doctor accused of murdering patients who were suffering in a chaotic New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina have been dropped, local prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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Investigators who determined that the first black mayor elected in the mostly white Louisiana town of Westlake killed himself are covering up a murder, the man's widow and children allege in a lawsuit.
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The owners of St. Rita's Nursing Home, where 35 people died in the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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The owner of a Missouri group home where 11 people died in a fire was arrested Monday on a federal Medicaid fraud charge.
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The captain of a boat that capsized in 2005 in upstate New York, killing 20 elderly tourists, and the cruise line owner were indicted Monday on criminal misdemeanor charges.
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The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were acquitted Friday of negligent homicide and cruelty charges for not evacuating the facility as the storm approached.
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The head of a now-defunct suburban Pittsburgh nursing home where an Alzheimer's patient died after wandering outside in the cold has been indicted on federal fraud charges.
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The Sept. 26 slaying of Thomas Mullen and the arrest of his roommate John Tamkun, a retired cabinetmaker who suffers from dementia, have cast a spotlight on a growing problem at nursing homes across the country: violence among residents.
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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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The trial of two nursing home owners charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of 35 patients after Hurricane Katrina will probably be held outside of St. Bernard Parish.
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The owner of a Texas bus company whose chartered coach exploded last fall, killing 23 elderly Hurricane Rita evacuees from a nursing home, was convicted today of falsifying logs and poorly maintaining his fleet.
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Families of victims of a deadly nursing home fire last year settled 28 of 32 lawsuits against the company that owned the facility, lawyers announced Thursday.
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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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The owners of a nursing home where 35 people died in the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.