Slow recovery goes on in crime-weary New Orleans
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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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Standing in the ruins of the Lower  Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd  a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing  high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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In normal times, redevelopment of public housing to make way for mixed-income neighborhoods might have gone largely unopposed. But passions are high in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, where residents are desperate for cheap housing.
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Desperate New Orleans-area officials touted Chinese-made homes and building supplies on Tuesday as a way to speed up the slow recovery of their storm-stricken city.
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After Hurricane Katrina, as many as 500 defendants have been freed because of problems with evidence.
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Bureaucracy and a lack of money are slowing the rebuilding of New Orleans nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina hit, Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday.
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A woman fatally shot in an upscale suburb and a teenager gunned down on a New Orleans street are the latest people killed in a metropolitan area that has seen violent crime rebound much faster than its population since Hurricane Katrina.
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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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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana  - Mardi Gras revelers packed New Orleans on Saturday as large crowds turned out to watch parades and fill the French Quarter in what many viewed as another step in the long recovery from 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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Since Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans city government has taken steps such as consolidating remote operations into its main data center and adding Web services and GIS technology to help it track reconstruction activities.
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Dancing, drinking revelers filled the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday as parades rolled through on the final day of a Mardi Gras that locals said marked another step toward recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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In post-Katrina Louisiana, the politics of the storm can overshadow even a bribery investigation.
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Amid all the problems that New Orleans has faced, relieving black-white distrust has proven to be one of the toughest
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Louisiana has distributed less than $2 billion in federal aid to communities hit by Hurricane Katrina, drawing complaints from some New Orleans officials that the state is slowing their recovery.
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Two years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still licking its wounds but efforts are being made to bring back the tourists that once made the Big Easy a major draw.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Despite slow progress in rebuilding some neighborhoods, New Orleans's population is nearing 300,000, or about 65 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina size, a new report says.