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  • Former New Orleans Officer Admits Role In Cover-Up Of Louisiana Bridge Shooting
    Thu, 03/11/2010 - 13:18
    A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina, CNN reports. Jeffrey Lehrmann, a former police detective who now works as a special agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge that he failed to report a cover-up in the in ...
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  • Plea Expected in hurricane Katrina Police Shooting Probe
    Fri, 02/26/2010 - 08:50
    A former New Orleans police official is preparing to enter a guilty plea in connection with a federal probe of a deadly police shooting of people crossing a bridge to flee Hurricane Katrina's aftermath,CBSnews.com reports.  Former police Lt. Michael Lohman is expected to enter the plea Wednesday in U.S. District Court, and he is reported ...
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  • Ex-Officer Charged For Conspiracy In Katrina Bridge Deaths
    Wed, 02/24/2010 - 17:58
    According to The Los Angeles Times, a former police lieutenant has been charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements to the FBI after Hurricane Katrina. Federal officials found that the New Orleans officer attempted to cover up the cause of two deaths and four injuries from police sho ...
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  • Was the Education Secretary right about Katrina being good for New Orleans' schools?
  • Education Secretary Apologizes For Comment On Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
    Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:07
    According to CNN, Arne Duncan, U.S. Education Secretary apologized Tuesday for recent comments he made attributing the public schooling success in New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina. Duncan said "It was a du ...
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  • In Haiti relief skirmish: There are bigger fish to fry than Wyclef
    Tue, 01/26/2010 - 09:29
    The Red Cross mismanages funds too. ...
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  • Caveat Donor: Let the benefactor beware
    Sun, 01/24/2010 - 01:00
    Kam Williams on the charity competition for helping Haiti. ...
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  • What a week: UCLA protests, the Shaniya Davis tragedy
    Fri, 11/20/2009 - 08:23
    Five news stories too important to miss. ...
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  • Court Rules Army Corps Of Engineers To Blame For Katrina Flooding In New Orleans
    Thu, 11/19/2009 - 08:22
    Six people from New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish have been awarded $700,000 total in a lawsuit brought against the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The judge in the case ruled the engineers failed to properly maintain the shipping channel that connected New Orleans and Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico and overflowed as a result of Hurricane Katrina. The same ruling makes about 100,000 neighbors of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit eligible for compensation of ...
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