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Kent Montgomery settled in for bad weather last week under a roof in the Lower 9th Ward that ... He’d put on a new roof after Katrina, but died soon after Hurricane Isaac in 2012, she said.
NEW ORLEANS — The Rev. Charles ... before we get it back.” The Lower 9th Ward, or “Lower Nine,” struggled with poverty and crime even before Katrina struck in 2005. It was home to 14,000 ...
After the pounding winds and hammering rains of Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, the worst was still yet to come. Flood waters rushed into the Ninth Ward, one of New Orleans' poorest ...
Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser returned to New Orleans ... Katrina. Her reports will appear on air and online in the coming week. In this first dispatch, an audio slide show from the city’s ...
The flooded streets and destroyed homes of the New Orleans neighborhood known as the Lower Ninth Ward were among the most powerful and iconic images from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath 10 ...
"Green is a lifelong Lower 9th Ward survivor ... Thursday there will be several events across New Orleans to commemorate Hurricane Katrina.A press conference will be held at 10 a.m. at 1239 ...
Each year, a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors gather in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward near the place where the levees blew 15 years ago this week. They read the names of the lives lost in the ...
which is expected to make landfall on the seventh anniversary of devastating Hurricane Katrina. Darren McKinney, 46, was born and raised in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. He was in New Orleans ...
WDSU, REPORTER SHAY O’CONNOR LIVE ON TENNESSEE STREET IN THE LOWER NINTH WARD WITH ... for the landfall of Idalia, New Orleans marked 18 years since Hurricane Katrina caused widespread ...
A tour bus turns a corner in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans. AP NEW ORLEANS — Some New Orleans residents and city officials are pushing back against tour operators who bus out-of-towners into ...
Dozens of New Orleans musicians marched in time Saturday (Aug. 31) through the streets of the Lower Ninth Ward, commemorating this week’s 19th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. “We can show ...