| January 17, 2009 | - A homeless Louisiana man, who robbed a bank of $100 and then voluntarily turned himself in the next day and apologized, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
| Source:
Digital Journal
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| August 31, 2008 | - One million people fled New Orleans to avoid Hurricane Gustav, which landed in Louisiana as a weakened category-2 hurricane and caused relatively little damage. Mississippi officials ordered people still living in the FEMA trailers erected after Hurricane Katrina to evacuate, and John McCain canceled opening-day ceremonies for the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. “This is a time when we have to do away with our party politics and we have to act as Americans,” said McCain. “Not as Republicans.”
| Source 1:
Guardian
Source 2:
IOL.co.za
Source 3:
New York Times
Source 4:
USA Today
Source 5:
Yahoo!
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| August 24, 2008 | - The National Guard was still patrolling New Orleans.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| April 25, 2008 | - A Mexican diplomat was fired after a video-surveillance tape showed him stealing BlackBerrys belonging to White House officials at a meeting in New Orleans.
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Fox News
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| March 26, 2008 | - A stray bullet bounced off chef Paul Prudhomme as he set up a cooking tent in New Orleans,.
| Source:
NO Times-Picayune
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| January 8, 2008 | - A victim of Hurricane Katrina was suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for $3,000,000,000,000,000 after the Corps admitted that it had done a poor job designing the broken New Orleans levees.
| Source:
Click2Houston.com
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| November 11, 2007 | - Half of New Orleans streetcars were still broken.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| September 1, 2007 | -
Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo marked the second anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster by suggesting that the “gravy train” of “so-called 'recovery'” should leave “the New Orleans station.”
| Source:
The Hill via Drudgereport.com
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| August 20, 2007 | -
Scientists in Louisiana determined that some obese people may be infected with a fat virus.
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MSNBC.com
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| July 12, 2007 | - Tangled clumps of worms fell from the sky in Jennings, Louisiana.
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WAFB
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| March 30, 2007 | - In Spearsville, Louisiana, two fifth-graders had sex on a classroom floor during an assembly about murder.
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AP
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| February 21, 2007 | - Residents of New Orleans celebrated Mardi Gras with brass bands, parades of Zulu warriors and Day-Glo feathered Indians, vats of gumbo, and pounds of turkey necks and pigs' feet. “It's back, y'all,” Mayor Ray Nagin exclaimed. “It's back!”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| January 16, 2007 | - In the United States a boy was born from an embryo rescued from a fertility clinic flooded during Hurricane Katrina.
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BBCnews.com
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| November 16, 2006 | - The city council of Greenleaf, Idaho, passed an ordinance that makes it mandatory for most residents to own a gun so that the town will be able to protect itself from refugees from natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
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MSNBC
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| September 27, 2006 | - The Saints beat the Falcons in the opening night game at the Superdome in New Orleans. The win, said a fan, was “a victory against Hurricane Katrina.”
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Voice of America
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| August 29, 2006 | -
President Bush, visiting hurricane-damaged New Orleans, spoke optimistically of the rebuilding effort. “There will be a momentum, momentum will be gathered,” said Bush. “Houses will begat jobs, jobs will begat houses.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 24, 2006 | - In Coushatta, Louisiana, nine black students were sent to the back of a school bus to make room for white children.
| Source:
The Shrevport Times via Drudge Report
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| August 23, 2006 | -
President Bush
cautioned against placing too much importance on the upcoming one-year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
| Source:
San Jose Mercury News
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| August 14, 2006 | -
Houston's rising crime rate was blamed on refugees from New Orleans, which has been gripped by a baby boom.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
Breitbart.com
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| July 18, 2006 | - A doctor and two nurses at the Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans were charged with the murder of four patients during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
| Source:
BBC
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| June 26, 2006 | - A gang of marauding transvestite thieves was terrorizing New Orleans
businesses.
| Source:
New Orleans City Business
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| June 2, 2006 | - The Army Corps of Engineers admitted that its incompetence was largely to blame for the destruction of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 31, 2006 | - It was determined that New Orleans was sinking faster than previously thought.
| Source:
Breitbart
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| May 21, 2006 | - Ray Nagin was re-elected mayor of New Orleans.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| May 2, 2006 | -
Qatar announced $60 million in aid for New Orleans.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| April 28, 2006 | - The Louisiana state senate approved a bill that bans abortion except when the procedure can save a woman's life; an amendment to allow exceptions in the cases of women who have been raped or are victims of incest was defeated.
| Source:
Ms. Magazine
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| March 17, 2006 | - A government study found that FEMA had wasted millions of dollars in the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort; among other things the organization was accused of spending $3 million for 4,000 beds that were never used and awarding hundreds of contracts without competitive bidding.
| Source:
Democracy Now
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| March 7, 2006 | - Two more bodies from the Hurricane Katrina disaster were found in New Orleans.
| Source:
ABC News Online
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| March 6, 2006 | - Investigators found that termites had survived the flooding of New Orleans.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| March 1, 2006 | - A videotape emerged showing President Bush being warned that Hurricane Katrina could flood New Orleans.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| February 11, 2006 | - Former FEMA director Michael Brown told a Senate committee that the White House knew about the flooding of New Orleans immediately after the the levees were breached, even though President Bush has said he didn't know about the flooding until the following day.
| Source:
ABC AM
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| January 24, 2006 | - A Senate committee investigating the government response to Hurricane Katrina criticized the Bush Administration for ignoring the findings of a hurricane-preparedness exercise called "Hurricane Pam," which had warned that New Orleans would be flooded. "It is apparent that a more appropriate name for Pam should have been 'Cassandra,'" said Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine).
| Source:
USA Today
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| January 23, 2006 | - Three thousand two hundred people were still missing in New Orleans.
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| January 18, 2006 | -
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that the rebuilt New Orleans "will be chocolate at the end of the day." He clarified: "You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about." One New Orleans resident said that Nagin "used the wrong dairy product."
| Source:
CNN.com
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| January 16, 2006 | - Shots were fired during a New Orleans parade intended to celebrate unity, and four people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
| Source:
AP
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| January 5, 2006 | - The New Orleans
puppy population was out of control.
| Source:
IndyStar.com
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| November 20, 2005 | - Bodies were still being found in New Orleans.
| Source:
Time
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| November 4, 2005 | -
Louisiana was told that it owes FEMA $3.7 billion for the aid organization's help after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
| Source:
USA Today
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| October 23, 2005 | - A Louisiana barber, tired of telling African-American customers that he doesn't know how to cut their hair, put a sign outside of his barbershop that read "whites only."
| Source:
KATC3
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| October 16, 2005 | - Tens of thousands of African Americans rallied in Washington, D.C., to mark the tenth anniversary of the Million Man March. Louis Farrakhan charged America “with criminal neglect” but did not repeat his allegations that the New Orleans levees had been blown up by bombs.
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 11, 2005 | - President George W. Bush visited a home-building project in Louisiana and spent a few minutes pounding nails into a sheet of plywood.
| Source:
LA Times
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| October 10, 2005 | - Two New Orleans
policemen were arrested for severely beating a 64-year-old man.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| October 5, 2005 | - It was revealed that during the Hurricane Katrina disaster no one actually shot at a helicopter outside of the Louisiana Superdome, and that reports of homicides and rapes at the Superdome were mostly false. The repetition of rumors by the media, it is believed, slowed the official response to the disaster.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| October 3, 2005 | - The Hurricane Katrina death toll reached 964 in Louisiana, and the search for more bodies was called off.
| Source:
Tuscaloosa News
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| September 24, 2005 | -
Hurricane Rita, the third-most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, struck Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, killing 36 people and causing flooding, tornadoes, and storm surges, and re-flooding parts of New Orleans. Hurricane evacuations caused miles of traffic jams in Texas, and a bus filled with elderly people exploded when an oxygen tank caught fire, incinerating at least 24 passengers.
| Source 1:
Wikipedia
Source 2:
Houston Chronicle
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| September 23, 2005 | - The National Rifle Association convinced a district court to stop gun confiscations in New Orleans.
| Source:
The National Rifle Association
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| September 19, 2005 | - The confirmed death toll from Hurricane Katrina rose to 883, with 663 of those in Louisiana. About $9.8 billion had been spent so far on the relief effort, and it was estimated that up to $200 billion remained to be spent. President Bush promised to rebuild the communities that had been destroyed by the hurricane. "To the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right," he said, "I take responsibility."
| Source 1:
Democracy Now!
Source 2:
KPLC
Source 3:
Time
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| September 16, 2005 | - A 73-year-old New Orleans woman was being held on $50,000 bail for allegedly looting sausages.
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| September 15, 2005 | -
Karl Rove was named to head the relief effort in New Orleansin the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| September 15, 2005 | - Many uninsured evacuees from New Orleans were receiving medical care for the first time in years.
| Source:
NOLA.com
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| September 11, 2005 | - Doctors in New Orleans admitted that they had euthanized critically ill patients rather than leaving them to sufferin the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "Those who had no chance of making it," said an emergency official, "were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die."
| Source:
Daily Mail
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| September 8, 2005 | - Emergency officials in Louisiana requested 25,000 body bags for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and a total evacuation of New Orleans was ordered. Much of the city was still underwater, though several people who lived on high ground objected to the evacuation. "I haven't even run out of weed yet," said one woman.
| Source 1:
The Guardian
Source 2:
The New York Times
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| September 8, 2005 | - Wealthy residents of New Orleans were devising ways to rebuild the city with a minimum of poor people.
| Source:
Raw Story/WSJ
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| September 7, 2005 | - Representative Richard Baker gave Hurricane Katrina credit for finally cleaning up public housing in New Orleans.
| Source:
[Link]
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| September 5, 2005 | - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the United States declared disasters in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Taken together, the 90,000-square-mile disaster area would be the twelfth largest state. Emergencies were declared in Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
| Source:
U.S. Department of Defense
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| September 5, 2005 | -
The Superdome and Convention Center were finally evacuated, but evacuees were not allowed to take their pets with them. “Snowball!” cried a little boy after police took away his dog. “Snowball!”
| Source 1:
MSNBC
Source 2:
The Charlotte Observer
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| September 4, 2005 | - “There is way too many fricking . . . cooks in the kitchen,” said New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| September 4, 2005 | - It was announced that it could take up to six months for New Orleans to be pumped out, and another three months for it to dry. Officials estimated that 10,000 people had been killed in the flood; about the same number of people remained in the city.
| Source 1:
The Independent
Source 2:
Times Online
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| September 3, 2005 | - The situation in New Orleans quickly worsened, but little help appeared. Shelters set up at the Superdome and at the New Orleans Convention Center became squalid, hot, and dangerous.
| Source:
LA Times
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| September 2, 2005 | - About 57,000 troops, many assigned to combat operations, entered the New Orleans area. “This place is going to look like Little
Somalia,” said a brigadier general.
| Source:
Army Times
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| September 2, 2005 | - “New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence,” said the pastor of the New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans, “and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion—it's free of all of those things now.”
| Source:
Agape Press
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| September 1, 2005 | - The Louisiana National Guard patrolled the Superdome with machine guns as flood victims, locked behind metal barricades, shouted “we need more water.” Cigarettes in the Superdome sold for $10 a pack, and a brisk market in anti-diuretics, which allowed people to avoid the overflowing bathrooms, developed. “We are like animals,” said a woman.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
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| September 1, 2005 | - Shootings, carjackings, and looting were reported across New Orleans. Thousands of people, most of them poor, were stranded for several days; many died waiting for rescue.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 31, 2005 | - President Bush decided to end his month-long vacation two days early and return to Washington, D.C. During his trip, Air Force One flew low over New Orleans. “This was a natural disaster,” said Bush.
| Source 1:
The Washington Post
Source 2:
The Village Voice
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| August 30, 2005 | - Eighty percent of New Orleans was flooded after levees were breached by rising water.
| Source:
LA Times
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| August 26, 2005 | -
Hurricane Katrina killed 11 people in Florida, and more than a million homes and businesses lost power. Katrina then crossed over the Gulf of Mexico and went ashore east of New Orleans, becoming a Category 5 storm along the way. "PERSONS . . . PETS . . . AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS," said the National Weather Service, "WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK . . . WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS." The hurricane eventually weakened to a tropical storm; winds tore off parts of the roof of the Superdome, where thousands of poor people sought shelter, and at least 55 people were killed in Mississippi.
| Source 1:
AP
Source 2:
The Roanoke Times
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| June 16, 2005 | - A man in Shreveport, Louisiana, attempted to rob a beauty school at gunpoint only to be severely beaten by nearly thirty women with sticks, table legs, and curling irons. “They kept pulling him back in and beating him,“ said a policewoman. “I wore him out with that stick,” one woman said.
| Source:
TodaysTHV.com
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| October 3, 2004 | -
Squirrel season opened in Louisiana.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 1, 2004 | - A man was arrested in West Monroe, Louisiana, for committing a crime against nature with his sister's 125-pound Vietnamese potbelly pig.
| Source:
The News Star
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| July 10, 2004 | - In Shreveport, Louisiana, police arrested a man in a wheelchair for shooting a man on crutches who apparently hit the accused over the head with a crutch.
| Source:
Shreveport Times
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| March 26, 2004 | - Police no longer need search warrants in Louisiana, an appeals court said, though the judgment was supposedly limited to "brief searches"; two dissenting judges denounced the ruling as the "road to Hell."
| Source:
New Orleans Channel
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| November 12, 2003 | - A judge in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, was in trouble for dressing up in blackface for Halloween.
| Source:
New York Times
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