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The irredeemable Chris Rose
Chris Rose's Pulitzer crystal sits in his small French Quarter apartment, its glass badly chipped from various accidents. The disfigured accolade for his work on a reporting team at the Times-Picayune is a reminder of both prowess and loss... By Michael Patrick Welch. (Mar. ’15)
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5 Former New Orleans Police Officers Plead Guilty Over Danziger Bridge Killings
The former officers pleaded guilty for gunning down unarmed people crossing the bridge to get help after Hurricane Katrina and for covering the incident up. Their previous sentences had carried a collective weight of more than 200 years in prison. The plea deal reportedly reduces that to less than 45 years in total.
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New study maps rate of New Orleans sinking
New Orleans and surrounding areas continue to sink at highly variable rates due to a combination of natural geologic and human-induced processes, finds a new NASA/university study using NASA airborne radar.
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Writer runs into burning apartment in Broadmoor to save 'life's work' on laptop
When Gideon Hodge ran into his Broadmoor apartment Thursday (Sept. 15) as firefighters worked to put out flames, he ignored good sense, he said, and the men in firefighter gear who yelled, "You can't go in there." He was scared, said Hodge, a New Orleans actor and writer, but not about getting hurt in the fire. He went right for the item he could not let get destroyed in the front living room of his bottom-floor unit, and emerged from the smoking fourplex carrying a navy gym bag. Inside the bag was his laptop.
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For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided Into Three Separate Cities
In 1803, when the United States bought New Orleans, along with the rest of the land in the Louisiana Purchase, the city had only about 8,000 people living in it. Planned on a tight grid, the city stretched just eleven blocks along a curve of the Mississippi River and six blocks back from the levee, to Rampart Street.
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Tornadoes tear path of destruction through Louisiana, at least 20 hurt
Six tornadoes tore through New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana on Tuesday, injuring at least 20 people as the storm roared across highways and streets, leveling trees, power lines and homes.
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Removal of the first of four New Orleans Confederate monuments begins with Liberty Place
Efforts to remove four Confederate monuments commenced early April 24, as crews and police surrounded the Liberty Place monument downtown around 2 a.m.
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New Orleans begins to remove second Confederate monument
As police stood between two opposing crowds, a crew lifted a statue of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its pedestal before dawn Thursday in New Orleans -- the latest in a contentious plan to dismantle four Confederate monuments in the city. It's the second Confederate monument to come down after the New Orleans city council voted to remove the four landmarks back in 2015. After years of heated public debate and legal battles, recent court decisions paved the way for the city to relocate the four monuments.
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The Poisoned Generation
The story of a decades-long lead-poisoning lawsuit in New Orleans illustrates how the toxin destroys black families and communities alike. By Vann R. Newkirk II.
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Impossible City: Photographs of New Orleans
Sometimes you see a picture and you can tell that something’s missing, but you don’t know what it is. By Tim Culvahouse with photos by Virginia Hanusik.
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New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then drug case gets tossed
When Kevin Smith was jailed on a drug charge in New Orleans in 2010, Blockbuster was still renting DVDs and President Barack Obama was still trying to pass his signature health care bill. Smith’s case never went to a jury. On Monday, 2,832 days after he was locked up, Criminal District Court Judge Tracey Flemings-Davillier ordered Smith’s release, bowing to an appeals court ruling that prosecutors had violated his right to a speedy trial.
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Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues (all musics)
Hugh Laurie
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New Orleans’ Secret Hangover Cure
Affectionately dubbed ‘Old Sober’, the little-known New Orleans dish called yakamein is said to right even the worst symptoms of fun.
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After his wallet was stolen, man chased thief and beat him to death, New Orleans police say
Simon Morris snapped when a man swiped his wallet outside an Uptown gasoline station on Friday morning. He chased the thief across the street and beat him to death with his fists and feet, New Orleans police said. Morris, 31, faces a count of manslaughter after the killing of a man identified in court records only by his first name, Edwin.
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New Orleans
Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong
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Linda Ronstadt "Ooh Baby Baby"
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How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead'
Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis." The gruesome disease killed thousands, scapegoated immigrants and upheld white supremacy.
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When Brad Pitt Tried to Save the Lower Ninth Ward
His Make It Right Foundation built 109 homes in New Orleans, but critics say many of them are badly flawed.
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Nurse, 36, shot dead in New Orleans as man grabs security guard's gun
An innocent female bystander, 36-year-old nurse Julie Couvillon, was fatally shot in New Orleans on Sunday after a man stole security guard's gun and opened fire outside a bustling restaurant.
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What Is Gumbo? A Look at Origins, Types, and Recipes
Got questions about this Southern classic? We've got answers. From gumbo recipes to ingredients, here's everything you've ever wanted to know about this New Orleans favorite.
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