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Katrina - Five Years Later

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Ex-cop to testify in post-Katrina shootings

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A day after hearing a woman describe the shootings that cost her an arm and killed a family friend, jurors were expected Tuesday to hear from a former New Orleans police lieutenant...
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Tales of Katrina told through new museum exhibit

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The $7.5 million exhibit at New Orleans' French Quarter museum recounts tales of the 2005 hurricane, its chaotic aftermath and recovery...
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Housing shortage prices some blacks out of New Orleans (VIDEO)

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theGRIO VIDEO - With the supply of housing scarce, the cost of rental property has increased by 50 percent since the storm...
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Andrew Young on post-Katrina New Orleans: 'Recovery has hardly begun'

Shanta N. Covington
theGRIO Q&A - What started out as a request for a few quotes turned into a full-blown discussion about what's changed about the region; what must be done to help...
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Obama heralds New Orleans' revival after storm

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - And he pledged: "My administration is going to stand with you and fight alongside you until the job is done."...
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Memories of chaos, rebirth 5 years after Katrina

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SHELL BEACH, La. (AP) - Memorials were planned across the Gulf Coast from New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward to Biloxi, Miss., to mourn the hundreds who died when Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005...
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Pontchartrain Park sets the bar for NOLA redevelopment

Chandra R. Thomas
VIDEO - The Pontchartrain Park project is at the core of a massive undertaking to acquire and sell 4,500 formerly occupied lots ...
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Wendell Pierce plays dual roles as actor and activist in New Orleans

Chandra R. Thomas
VIDEO - Fearful that his beloved community would cease to exist, Wendell Pierce answered the community's call ...
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Katrina's lessons still not learned 5 years later

Benjamin Todd Jealous
OPINION - Without a shift in how energy policies are made and by whom, our disastrous trajectory toward peril will be unabated...
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Slideshow: Pontchartrain Park on the rise, but still recovering

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SLIDESHOW - As the fifth anniversary of the hurricane approaches, residents say today that Pontchartrain Park is still not close to where it was before the storm....
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