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July 13, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana says he supports conservative organizations challenging President Barack Obama's citizenship in…
July 13, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - 'Put simply, we will not tolerate wrongdoing by those who are sworn to protect the public,'…
July 2, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - This weekend's Essence Music Festival is helping New Orleans overcome the perception that the city has…
June 25, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - It has sickened residents, threatened their traditional way of life, crippled the fishing industry there and left…
June 10, 2010
GRAND ISLE, Louisiana (AP) - Fishermen, property owners and businesspeople are complaining delays and skimpy payments from BP for damage…
June 10, 2010
OPINION - Any attempt at equating the oil spill with Katrina is another far-right effort to attack Obama and undermine…
June 7, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Surrounded by Cabinet members, Obama said that not only is he confident that the crisis will pass…
June 7, 2010
GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) - Although a geyser of oil spewing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is…
June 4, 2010
KENNER, Louisiana (AP) - But the president says it's "way too early to be optimistic" about BP's latest attempt to…
June 4, 2010
OPINION - President Obama should respond to the oil gushing from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico as he…
June 4, 2010
GRAND ISLE, Louisiana (AP) - It's the latest bid to contain -- not plug -- the worst U.S. oil spill.…
June 3, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - BP has until July 1 to pay back what the government says is 75 percent of costs…
June 3, 2010
METAIRIE, La. (AP) - BP turned to the shears after a diamond-tipped saw became stuck in the pipe halfway through…
June 2, 2010
OPINION - "One thing that compounds a tragedy," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, "is when the victims aren't even allowed to…
May 29, 2010
ROBERT, La. (AP) - BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the company determined the "top kill" method had failed…
May 28, 2010
SLIDESHOW - Obama arrived in the Gulf, where he stood on Fourchon Beach in his shirt-sleeves and called reporters to…
May 3, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The leaking oil imperils not only the environment but an abundant fishing industry, which Obama called "the…
May 2, 2010
VENICE, La. (AP) - No remedy in sight, President Obama on Sunday warned of a "massive and potentially unprecedented environmental…
April 23, 2010
VIDEO - Decades after the first chemical companies moved in, Mossville, La. residents are convinced that these plants are making…
April 15, 2010
DALLAS (AP) -- Black workers in Texas employed by a Louisiana-based oil-services company were taunted with racial slurs and nooses…