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Ex-Cop Gets Max Sentence in Katrina Shooting Coverup

Michael Hunter gets maximum allowed sentence

(Newser) - Michael Hunter stood quietly as a judge sentenced the former New Orleans police officer today to eight years in federal prison for his role in the cover-up and deadly shooting of unarmed civilians who were searching for food after Hurricane Katrina. The sentence by US District Judge Sarah Vance was...

New Orleans Cop Denies Cover-Up in Katrina Killing

Says he burned corpse to prevent 'rot'

(Newser) - A New Orleans police officer charged with burning the body of a man shot to death by a fellow officer after Katrina testified that he didn't do so to cover up the killing, ProPublica reports. Officer Greg McRae said he was exhausted and stressed, and that he burned the body...

Brangelina Snag $40M Italian Villa

Brood will use new luxe digs for vacay getaway

(Newser) - Another day, another mansion. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have scooped up new luxury digs, this time a $40 million villa in the Valpolicella Hills of northern Italy, the Daily Mail reports. The Villa Costanza features 15 bedrooms, seven bathrooms, several Jacuzzis, two swimming pools, a gym, stable, vineyard, and...

Sewage Could Save New Orleans

Revitalized wetlands could protect against storms, bring tourism

(Newser) - For New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, renewal could come from an unlikely source: sewage. The 30,000-acre Bayou Bienvenue, a neighboring wetlands, once provided tourist dollars, great fishing, and flood protection to the city—before it was poisoned by saltwater seepage from nearby canals. A coalition that includes local authorities,...

Sandra Bullock: Louis My 'Little Cajun Cookie'

Actress happy to complete adoption process

(Newser) - Sandra Bullock has been through a thing or two recently, but the actress maintains a pretty zen attitude. "I think everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out," she says, crowing over adopted son Louis—her "little Cajun cookie" in an interview on...

Obama: 'New Orleans Is Coming Back'
 Obama: 
 'New Orleans 
 Is Coming 
 Back' 
anniversary speech
Aug 29, 2010 2:53 PM CDT

Obama: 'New Orleans Is Coming Back'

President pledges to complete levees, stick with region

(Newser) - President Obama arrived in New Orleans today to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and pledged to stick with the Gulf Coast until rebuilding is complete. In a speech at Xavier University, soon to be back in operation after being devastated by floodwaters, he called the city a “...

Brad's NOLA Houses 'A Template For the Future'
Brad Pitt: Welcome to the Greenest 'Hood in the World 
meet the press
Aug 29, 2010 1:47 PM CDT

Brad Pitt: Welcome to the Greenest 'Hood in the World

Pitt visits New Orleans on Katrina anniversary

(Newser) - To mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt went on Meet the Press to talk about his Make It Right Foundation and the affordable, green, and safe houses they’re building in the Lower Ninth Ward. “These homes are elevated above Katrina floodwaters, they are stronger, they’...

Obamas Leave Vineyard, Head to Nawlins

President will mark 5th anniversary of Katrina

(Newser) - President Barack Obama is wrapping up his vacation on Martha's Vineyard and heading for New Orleans to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The president and his family boarded a Marine helicopter today, the first leg of a trip that will take them to the Crescent City.

New Orleans Buries Katrina &mdash;Literally
 New Orleans 
 Buries Katrina 
 —Literally 
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
Aug 29, 2010 7:44 AM CDT

New Orleans Buries Katrina —Literally

The message: 'Goodbye bitch!'

(Newser) - Five years after Hurricane Katrina changed the face of New Orleans forever, residents of St. Bernard Parish yesterday put her to rest with a mock funeral. Parishioners filed past an empty casket, dropping in notes, reports the Times-Picayune . "Goodbye bitch," read the note from the former parish president....

Ten Dead American Cities
 Ten Dead American Cities 
Aug 28, 2010 3:19 PM CDT

Ten Dead American Cities

Buffalo and Flint lead the way

(Newser) - It's another cities-in-trouble list, although this one from 24/7 Wall St declares these "desolate urbanscapes" not just dying but dead. (For the usual reasons of population loss, manufacturing exodus, crime, etc.) Here's the top 5:
  1. Buffalo: "Wounded irreparably by the de-industrialization of America."
  2. Flint: It's simple:
...

A Look Back at Katrina, in Photos
 A Look Back 
 at Katrina, 
 in Photos 
5 years later
Aug 28, 2010 10:46 AM CDT

A Look Back at Katrina, in Photos

New Orleans marks another anniversary since the hurricane

(Newser) - Tomorrow marks five years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, and the Times-Picayune looks back with a series of photographs that begins here . (The photos in the above gallery are from AP.) Click here to read about the new levee system nearly in place to prevent another Katrina.

No Katrina Recovery for Lower Class
No Katrina Recovery for Lower Class
Aug 27, 2010 9:00 AM CDT

No Katrina Recovery for Lower Class

Government efforts have helped the affluent

(Newser) - The government has poured $143 billion into Hurricane Katrina recovery, but most of that money has gone to the city’s predominantly white middle and upper classes, the Washington Post reports. A federal judge this month declared that Louisiana’s system for distributing funds to property owners to rebuild discriminated...

New Orleans Cops Told They Could Shoot Katrina Looters
New Orleans Cops Told They Could Shoot Katrina Looters
investigation
Aug 25, 2010 6:53 AM CDT

New Orleans Cops Told They Could Shoot Katrina Looters

Post-Katrina message: 'If you can sleep with it, do it'

(Newser) - In the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, some New Orleans police officers were told they could shoot looters, according to an investigation by ProPublica and the Times-Picayune. One captain told officers at roll call (it's on videotape) that "we have authority by martial law to shoot looters" (martial law...

Brad Pitt Rebuilding 9th Ward Home at a Time

Quirky houses boast top material, solar panels

(Newser) - Officials bungled rebuilding New Orleans' Ninth Ward after Katrina, but the devastated district is sprouting colorful, quirky, elevated homes boasting top-notch materials and solar panels thanks to a massive effort spearheaded by Brad Pitt. The actor is highlighted in Spike Lee's new two-part HBO documentary If God is Willing and ...

New Orleans' $15B Levees Nearly Done

But plenty of residents, experts say they're just not enough

(Newser) - Five years and $15 billion later, the US Army Corps of Engineers is just about done with a massive ring of protection designed to protect New Orleans from another Katrina. It's a 350-mile network of levees and flood walls that is by all accounts a massive improvement over the previous...

Victoria's Secret Slights Saints, Enrages Fans

Champions excluded from NFL undies collection

(Newser) - Victoria's Secret has enraged Louisiana's female football fans—reputedly some of the most intense around—by excluding the New Orleans Saints from its Pink NFL lineup, Advertising Age reports. Not only are the defending Super Bowl champs missing, but the line does include the Boston Red Sox, which was not...

Vogue Oil Spread Ignites Uproar
 Vogue Oil Spread Ignites Uproar 
Aug 11, 2010 1:41 AM CDT

Vogue Oil Spread Ignites Uproar

Gross photos too slick for some

(Newser) - Is an arresting Vogue Italia cover and fashion spread evidence of environmental sensitivity or a heartless ploy to boost magazine sales with horrific images of a disaster? Depends on whom you ask. The spread, shot in Los Angeles by renowned photographer Steven Meisel, features be-feathered model Kristen McMenamy and her...

FBI Investigates BP's Ties to Regulators

Criminal probe to target Transocean, Halliburton as well

(Newser) - A team of federal investigators is gathering in New Orleans to determine, among other things, whether BP was criminally cozy with federal regulators, and whether that helped cause the Deepwater Horizon explosion. The wide-ranging criminal probe will also focus on TransOcean and Halliburton, the Washington Post reports, but there’s...

Gulf Coast Residents Doubt Leak Is Plugged

Victims skeptical of oil giant's big news

(Newser) - Many Gulf Coast residents don't believe it. Some accuse BP of making it up. And even those convinced that the oil leak has finally been stopped are tempered in their relief, aware that their environmental nightmare is far from over. "It's a beautiful thing that it's shut off,"...

Officers Charged in Katrina Bridge Shootings

4 charged with violating civil rights during storm chaos

(Newser) - Four New Orleans police officers have been charged with federal civil rights violations in the deadly shootings of unarmed people on a bridge in the chaos after Hurricane Katrina. The indictment unsealed today charges Sgts. Robert Gisevius and Kenneth Bowen and officers Anthony Villavaso and Robert Faulcon with deprivation of...

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