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Settlement avoids trial in 2011 Katrina trash lawsuit

By Kevin Mcgill Jun. 21, 2021 01:00 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A decade-old lawsuit over the awarding of waste disposal contracts following Hurricane Katrina has been settled, avoiding a Monday trial and...

A man takes a photo of waves crashing into what once was a dock for a ferry that transported people from Bay St. Louis to Pass Christian, Miss., as a tropical system moves toward the Mississippi Coast on Friday, June 18, 2021.  Forecasters predict a tropical system will bring heavy rain, storm surge and coastal flooding to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The poorly organized disturbance was located Friday morning about 255 miles south of Morgan City, Louisiana.  (Justin Mitchell/The Sun Herald via AP)
Tropical weather lashes Gulf Coast with brisk winds, rain

By Kevin Mcgill And Jeff Martin Jun. 18, 2021 01:28 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press Jun. 02, 2021 10:10 AM EDT
Valdosta Daily Times. June 1, 2021. Editorial: Be prepared for hurricane season While pandemic seems to be subsiding,...

A statue of Jesus Christ stands in front of the remains of a house in Cameron Parish, La. on Monday, May 24, 2021. Scores of people in coastal Louisiana are still living in campers on dirt mounds or next to cement slabs where their houses once stood. Unresolved insurance claims and a shortage of supply and labor are stymying building efforts. And weather forecasters are warning of more possible devastation to come. (AP Photo/Rebecca Santana)
Louisiana coast still hurting from storms, bracing for more

By Rebecca Santana May. 30, 2021 11:04 AM EDT

Louisiana Senate crafts plan for spending $1.5B federal aid

By Melinda Deslatte May. 25, 2021 06:24 PM EDT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana would spend more than $1.5 billion in federal coronavirus aid on roadwork, water system improvements, tourism marketing,...

Homeowner Stephen Punkay, right, dumps a cart-load of wet carpet to add to the debris pile, after the Baker Drive home that he and wife Amy share with their six children got at least six inches of water in Monday night's deluge of rain in the Westminster subdivision, as they clean up with the help of family, neighbors and "church family" from Community Bible Church, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, in Baton Rouge, La. Heavy rains have swept across southern Louisiana, flooding homes, swamping cars and closing a major interstate. (Travis Spradling/The Advocate via AP)
Drenching rains flood homes, swamp cars in south Louisiana

By Rebecca Santana May. 18, 2021 01:45 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 10, 2021 file photo, people stand in line outside the Maria Simmons elementary school waiting to be inoculated with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as part of a mass vaccination campaign, in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico seemed to be sprinting toward herd immunity this spring before people began letting their guard down against COVID-19 and new variants started spreading across the U.S. territory. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)
Puerto Rico groans under pandemic as health, economy suffer

By Dánica Coto May. 02, 2021 09:08 AM EDT

Kenneth Henderson carries a case of donated water back to his home, which was without running water after the recent winter storm, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Houston. Local officials, including Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, say they have focused their efforts during the different disasters on helping the underserved and under-resourced but that their work is far from complete. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Deep freeze just latest disaster to befall Houston's needy

By Juan A. Lozano Mar. 08, 2021 05:11 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2021, file photo, a man seeking shelter from sup-freezing temperatures prepares his cot at a make-shift warming shelter at Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio. As temperatures plunged and snow and ice whipped the state, much of Texas' power grid collapsed, followed by its water systems. Tens of millions huddled in frigid homes that slowly grew colder or fled for safety. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Power failure: How a winter storm pushed Texas into crisis

By Nomaan Merchant Feb. 21, 2021 09:07 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2021, file photo, customers use the light from a cell phone to look in the meat section of a grocery store in Dallas. Even though the store lost power, it was open for cash only sales. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Power failure: How a winter storm pushed Texas into crisis

By Nomaan Merchant Feb. 21, 2021 09:04 AM EST

President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual event with the Munich Security Conference in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Biden declares major disaster in Texas as federal aid flows

By Darlene Superville Feb. 20, 2021 01:15 AM EST

Nory Yamileth Hernandez stands at the property where she lived with 11 others, including her three teenage children, before it was flooded by last year's hurricanes Eta and Iota in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Hernández, 34, said she had joined the first big migrant caravan hoping to reach the U.S. in October 2018 but didn’t make it to Mexico before turning back, and is sure she will try again soon. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Desperation grows in battered Honduras, fueling migration

By María Verza Feb. 11, 2021 09:42 AM EST

Central Louisiana zoo still repairing damage from Laura

Feb. 06, 2021 11:22 AM EST
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Although Hurricane Laura’s landfall was about 115 miles (185 kilometers) away, damage from its winds and COVID-19 restrictions have kept...

Migrants trying to reach the U.S. border board a public transport bus on the highway to Choloma, Honduras, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. About 200 Honduran migrants resumed walking toward the border with Guatemala early Thursday, a day before a migrant caravan was scheduled to depart San Pedro Sula.(AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)
Honduran migrants trek north toward Guatemalan border

By María Verza Jan. 13, 2021 11:45 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Louisiana

By The Associated Press Jan. 06, 2021 06:45 PM EST
Recent editorials from Louisiana newspapers: ___ Jan. 2 The Advocate on lessons learned in 2020 to...

Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press Jan. 06, 2021 03:00 PM EST
Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers: ___ Jan. 6 The Brunswick News on funds that are...

Editorial Roundup: Louisiana

By The Associated Press Dec. 30, 2020 10:20 AM EST
Recent editorials from Louisiana newspapers: ___ Dec. 29 The Advocate on individual actions in the...

Nicole Caswell talks to her daughter Emily Pascale before her wedding, inside the home of Emily's now in-laws, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020,  Grand Lake, La., which was heavily damaged from Hurricanes Laura and Delta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Hurricanes, virus can't stop Louisiana couple's wedding

By Rebecca Santana Dec. 29, 2020 12:23 PM EST

FILE - In this July 26, 2020 file photo, the casket of Rep. John Lewis moves over the Edmund Pettus Bridge by horse drawn carriage during a memorial service for Lewis, in Selma, Ala. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
Pandemic deaths and economic fallout are top Alabama story

By Jay Reeves Dec. 28, 2020 07:24 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2020, file photo, Mona Hardin, center left at podium, mother of Ronald Greene, speaks at a news conference outside the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La. Greene died following a police chase in Louisiana in 2019, and his death is now under federal investigation. Greene's family filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit in May alleging troopers "brutalized" Greene, used a stun gun on him three times and "left him beaten, bloodied and in cardiac arrest," before covering up his actual cause of death. (AP Photo/Dorthy Ray, File)
Pandemic, hurricanes top Louisiana news for 2020

Dec. 28, 2020 06:54 AM EST

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