Crime writer draws Hurricane Katrina into fiction
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Two years after Hurricane Katrina broke apart New Orleans, one of the best-known writers in the U.S. South has ushered the storm into fiction.
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By Tommy McBride  She screamed in: as her hurricane - forced friends   Partnered a torrential downpour from the west   Roaring ferociously like an angry wounded lion.
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RED BANK, Tenn. - Police are investigating after a man wrote about launching a "feline jihad" to rid his Chattanooga suburb of stray cats.  Max Gerskin wrote a two-part series in the Chattanooga Pulse weekly publication, the first of which was published Aug.
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Travel: On a trip where you actually want bad weather, Rebecca Loncraine discovers the thrill of chasing tornados across the vast Midwest.
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By ANN SANNER  WASHINGTON - A 59-year-old man was sentenced Monday to 8 1/2 years in prison on charges stemming from his use of stolen identities in an attempt to acquire more than $100,000 in payments intended for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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Two years after Hurricane  Katrina forever changed the Gulf Coast, its echoes still  reverberate throughout TV journalism.
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You might be surprised how far you have to drive from New Orleans, LA to get to the Gulf of Mexico.  Following     the west bank of the Mississippi River along Hwy 23, you go through the separate and well-separated towns of     Belle Chasse, Pointe a la Hache, Port Sulphur, Empire, Boothville, and finally over 60 miles from New Orleans     the tiny oilfield supply and marina town of Venice.    At Empire the highway goes over a pretty tall bridge and on the other side of the canal, beyond the levee     system, Katrina's storm surge came through with a vengeance.  The roads have been cleared but everywhere along     them are the twisted skeletons of steel buildings with vegetation hanging out of shattered second-story     windows.  A refrigerator sits atop the flooded husk of a house.  A perfect square of fenceless pickets     surrounds a perfectly bare concrete slab.  The occasional forlorn FEMA trailer can be spotted parked on one of     many slabs in a field of such slabs that was once a neighborhood.  The carcass of a cow is wedged improbably     in the canopy of a tree twenty feet up.    What is striking is not that the landscape looks like this; most of the coastline of Louisiana and Mississippi     experienced such damage.  What is striking is that it looked like this when I visited last week, in August     2006, almost an entire year after the storm came through.
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Quirky characters, raucous music, jazz funerals, a warm climate and plenty of service-industry jobs made New Orleans an ideal base for writers and a rich backdrop for their work.
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ST. GEORGE&#39;S, GrenadaâThe most powerful hurricane to hit Grenada in a decade killed more than a dozen people, damaged 90 per cent of its homes and destroyed a prison, leaving criminals on the loose, officials said yesterday.
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Thousands of people in Louisiana and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast are struggling to rebuild their lives. In some areas, the population and economy are growing, but in others, serious issues remain such as battered infrastructure and violent crime.
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BILOXI, Miss. -- He doesn't seem the type to rattle easily. A gravel-voiced retired seaman with piratical swagger, Jim DeSilvey survived Katrina's 25-foot storm surge here by tying one end of an electrical cord around his waist and the other around a utility pole.
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Thinking about killing someone and can't  figure out how to finish the job and make crime pay? It's the  kind of stuff that keeps crime fiction writers awake at night.
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An autopsy shows that a man who was killed by police in the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina was shot from behind, a lawyer for the man's family said Wednesday.
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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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In post-Katrina Louisiana, the politics of the storm can overshadow even a bribery investigation.
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A convicted murderer's claim that he killed three women in this tiny Louisiana town in the 1980s, part of a sensational tale of dozens of slayings across the country, is creating challenges for the area's top lawman.
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Former Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard watched scores of inmates climb out of Grenada's crumbling 17th century prison when Hurricane Ivan tore away the roof and parts of the walls. Unlike them, however, he stayed put with 15 others convicted of killings in the 1983 palace coup that led the United States to invade.