When Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. in 2005, nearly 2000 people lost their lives and the cost of the catastrophe exceeded ...

A key statute was designed to rein in the Homeland Security secretary and prevent deadly mistakes. Lawyers say its provisions are difficult to enforce.

Mayor Helena Moreno announces master plan for the dilapidated landmark and Armstrong Park, as questions linger over $40 ...

Kendrick Simpson is a New Orleans native who fled to Oklahoma as a Hurricane Katrina evacuee. He was executed for gunning ...

A Caddo Parish judge convicted Woods and the baby’s father, Emmanuel Scott, from a 2006 indictment. Under Louisiana's ...

The now-U.S. attorney general adopted a St. Bernard named Master Tank in October 2005. Then his owners came looking for him.

Kendrick Simpson is a New Orleans native who fled to Oklahoma as a Hurricane Katrina refugee. He's being executed for gunning ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) While much of the U.S. has been covered by strong winter storms that have knocked out power in some areas of the Midwest, the cold weather that has accompanied the month of December ...

In August, 2005, Anand Irimpen, a cardiologist and a professor at Tulane University, evacuated New Orleans during the approach of Hurricane Katrina. He and his family watched it make landfall from a ...

The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research is an interdisciplinary research center in which environmental engineers, environmental health scientists, philosophers, and other groups work ...

Tiffany Woods was convicted of second-degree murder in 2008 for the death of her newborn son after he was fed ...