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Saturday, October 11, 2008
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Coast Guard hearings into a collision on the Mississippi River that caused a major oil spill and closed the river for six days were expected to resume Thursday.
The hearings in federal court are examining an early morning collision on July 23 between a towboat pushing a fuel barge and a tanker. The fuel barge broke open, spilling 276,000 gallons of heavy oil.
NEW ORLEANS — Aided by $1.5 million in federal funds, a husband-and-wife team of psychiatrists will lead the expansion of mental-health services to thousands of hurricane-weary schoolchildren in the New Orleans area, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans said Wednesday. A state judge has been elected by his fellow jurists to two leadership roles. Judge John E. Conery, of Franklin, on Monday was elected president of the Louisiana District Judges’ Association at the professional association’s annual meeting in New Orleans, effective Oct. 1. NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The National Rifle Association and the city of New Orleans have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the seizure of firearms by police officers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A court filing Tuesday says the NRA and Second Amendment Foundation will drop the case if the city follows a plan for returning guns to owners who had them confiscated by police after the 2005 hurricane. NEW ORLEANS — Calling New Orleans “the most deadly city in the United States,” Foreignpolicy.com, a Washington-based Web site, has listed the Big Easy among “five cities that stand in a class all their own when it comes to brutal, homicidal violence.” NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Recovery Authority Executive Director Paul Rainwater wants the federal government to “consolidate” hurricanes Gustav and Ike into “one disaster in Louisiana” — on paper. NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans has been rocked by multiple killings - five in two days - pushing the number of people slain in the city this year to 151. The killings began Sunday afternoon when Kendrick Sherman, 18, and Durrell Pooler, 23, were gunned down on a city street. Two cars sped away from the scene. Sherman died on the sidewalk and Pooler died across the street. NEW ORLEANS — Indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson and Helena Moreno, a former local television anchorwoman, head to the Democratic Party runoff Nov. 4 with many politicos predicting an uphill struggle — for Moreno. NEW ORLEANS — Three years after Hurricane Katrina flooded most of New Orleans, a majority of Americans believe the federal government should do more to help the city’s recovery, a new poll shows. NEW ORLEANS — The day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to reconsider its June refusal to allow the death penalty for child rapists in Louisiana, two experts on pedophile priests said society should focus on prevention, education and incarceration of child molesters — rather than Draconian measures. NEW ORLEANS — From storm-battered schools and libraries in New Orleans to flooded-out fire stations in rural Plaquemines Parish, more than $7.1 billion in aid has been “obligated” to help state and local governments rebuild since hurricanes Katrina and Rita hammered Louisiana in 2005, new figures show. NEW ORLEANS — Using a “successful” disaster aid program that still supports 30,000 families left homeless by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, government officials Wednesday announced a new initiative to help thousands of victims recently displaced by Hurricane Ike. NEW ORLEANS — In a racial bias case with a twist, a federal appeals court panel has ruled in favor of a former police chief who was fired from historically black Grambling State University. NEW ORLEANS — A divided Louisiana Supreme Court will allow a “highly regarded” Baton Rouge criminal defense attorney to keep practicing law because, in part, he sought treatment following a 2004 drug arrest. NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Supreme Court has restored the law license of former state Insurance Commissioner James H. “Jim” Brown Jr., who served six months in prison for his federal conviction of lying to FBI agents. |
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