Report blasts firm overseeing Katrina recovery (AP)
AP - An engineering firm hired to oversee the reconstruction of city buildings and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina has been overcharging the city, including billing for theater tickets and a flight to Las Vegas, an internal investigation found.

Ex-New Orleans officer pleads in shooting cover-up (AP)

U.S. Attorney James Letten, left, speaks to the media outside the Federal Court building in New Orleans,Thursday, March 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)AP - A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to covering up the deadly shooting of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina, with a judge calling the plot a "despicable" scheme that immeasurably compounded the storm's damage.




Ex-policeman pleads guilty in Katrina killing case (Reuters)
Reuters - A former New Orleans police detective who now works as a U.S. immigration agent has pleaded guilty to helping cover up the shooting deaths of two people by police days after Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

Katrina victims seek to sue greenhouse gas emitters (AFP)

Residents search for survivors a day after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in August 2005. Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the devastating 2005 storm, legal documents showed Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Graythen)AFP - Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the devastating 2005 storm, legal documents showed.




Alternative Spring Breaks Combine Service, Learning (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report - Instead of relaxing on white, sandy beaches this spring break, thousands of college students will travel around the globe to volunteer for a variety of social justice causes. Known as "alternative spring breaks," these are public-service-oriented trips, planned and led by students, that focus on volunteerism and education about social justice issues in the United States or overseas. From rebuilding homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina to tutoring students in a remote village in Ecuador, these trips can open students' eyes to issues both close to home and far away.

Connick performs for students at White House (AP)

Harry Connick Jr., holds the microphone as Derrick Hopkins Jr., 10, sings during a special preview for local music students, of the talent that will be performing at the White House annual Governors Ball, at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Harry Connick Jr. told students Sunday that music can get people through the darkest times — even a disaster like Hurricane Katrina, which devastated his hometown, New Orleans, in 2005.




HUD: Redevelopment of razed public housing at risk (AP)
AP - Nearly two years after the contentious bulldozing of large tracts of public housing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a federal report now says that the planned redevelopment of a large portion of that land is in jeopardy.

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