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New Orleans is in the midst of a violent murder spree unlike anything the city has seen before or since Hurricane Katrina.
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According to an excellent piece in today’s New York Times, New Orleans’ murder rate in 2010 was 10 times the national average, “long before shootings on Halloween night in the crowded French Quarter
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NEW ORLEANS, LA.–A New Orleans rapper and seven others face criminal charges after they used real guns to simulate a robbery at a convenience store for music a video they were shooting.
Danny Rogers, better known as “Lil Dee God’s Gift,” was acting out a mock robbery armed with real, unloaded guns when someone passing by thought a real robbery was occurring and called 911.
Read MoreJefferson Parish Sheriff’s deputies swarmed the parking lot, arresting
DETROIT-Thousands of people are leaving Detroit, demoralizing the city.
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The New York Times reports:
Read MoreIt was the largest percentage drop in history for any American city with more than 100,000 residents, apart from the unique situation of New Orleans, where the population dropped by 29 percent after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said Andrew A. Beveridge, a sociologist at Queens College.
The number of people who
NEW ORLEANS — Data reported by the Census Bureau on Thursday shows that the city of New Orleans is 29 percent smaller than it was a decade ago.
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Comedian and YouTube sensation, was shot dead in New Orleans on Sunday after attending a baby shower for one of his friends. Onlookers took pictures of Messy Mya’s dead body and circulated the pictures on Twitter. Mya was very well known in New Orleans gay community and several of his online rants have gone viral.
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BP PLC plans to move ahead with replacing the blowout preventer that sits atop the well that unleashed the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, despite failing in attempts to remove pieces of drill pipe stuck inside the device, the federal oil-spill response chief said Friday.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A startling number of Gulf coast area children displaced by Hurricane Katrina still have serious emotional or behavioral problems five years later, a new study found.
More than one in three children studied – those forced to flee their homes because of the August 2005 storm – have since been diagnosed with mental health problems. These are children who moved to trailer parks and other emergency housing.
Nearly half
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NEW ORLEANS – Spike Lee screened portions of his follow-up documentary about Hurricane Katrina in front of a big crowd at Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans.
The premiere Tuesday included hours one and four of the HBO documentary, “If God Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise.” It airs on Aug. 23 and 24. Among those attending were Mayor Mitch Landrieu and New Orleans Hornets star guard Chris Paul.
Lee also produced “When the
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Aug. 29.
The White House says Obama will speak at Xavier University. Other administration officials who have worked on Katrina recovery efforts will also be in the region to mark the anniversary.
Obama made his first trip to New Orleans since taking office in October, holding a town hall with local residents. He returned to the
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