Many Teens Thrive After Katrina
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By BECKY BOHRER  NEW ORLEANS - Rudy Williams shares her dream softly, as if saying it aloud will somehow jinx it.   One day, she says, she hopes to become a dentist. Just the prospect brings a smile to her face.
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Newly opened in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, South Plaquemines High won for the first time ever on Friday, but the team lost a major-college prospect in the process.
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By David Vest, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Dec. 17--As traffic zipped by on busy 11th Street on a brisk December day, students at A.D. Harris High School celebrated a small victory for the natural world.
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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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Louisiana appears to be rebounding from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, gaining 50,000 residents in the year ending July 1, according to new Census Bureau state population estimates released Thursday.
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Teenagers who&#39;ve survived  childhood cancers may be more likely than their siblings to be  depressed or anxious, have attention problems or show  antisocial behaviors, researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Teenagers who've survived childhood cancers may be more likely than their siblings to be depressed or anxious, have attention problems or show antisocial behaviors, researchers report.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Like many teenagers, high school sophomore Sabrina Kelly of Tuscaloosa had looked forward to getting her license on her 16th birthday.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 8 -- Hurricane Katrina left more than gutted houses and empty streets along the Gulf Coast.
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CLEVELAND -- When her father went off to war, 13-year-old Brittney Wilkinson felt angry. She cried at unexpected times and battled her older sister, Ashley. At school, she seemed withdrawn. When her mother saw an offer that would pay for art classes for both girls, she jumped at it.
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While parents worry about picking up the pieces from the hurricane that killed 22 people in Florida, the children whose lives were upturned by Charley are dealing with another problem &#151; boredom.
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The bodies are no longer being dragged from houses and buildings toppled by Hurricane Katrina, but nearly two years later many in the medical community think the storm is still killing.
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Thousands of Gulf Coast students are still displaced two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, and millions of dollars worth of school reconstruction projects remain unfunded, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Life is still unpredictable for many Katrina evacuees, especially those who have to depend on the government.
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Now that the hurricane season has ended, New Orleans residents notice a lag in work to rebuild the cityÂs flood protection infrastructure.
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High school students got up well before dawn to resume classes Monday for the first time since Hurricane Charley tore through 17 days ago, sharing their building with crosstown rivals whose school fared worse.
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Waiting in line is part of life in post-storm New Orleans, especially when it comes to health care.