Nation Jul 25 Official: 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. He was 86.
Nation Jul 05 Search back on at South Florida condo after demolition Rescuers were given the all-clear to resume work looking for victims at a collapsed South Florida condo building after demolition crews set off a string of explosives that brought down the last of the building in a plume of dust.
Nation May 31 Louisiana coast still hurting from storms, bracing for more Nine months after two back-to-back hurricanes hammered their towns, scores of coastal Louisiana residents are still struggling to recover.
Nation Oct 29 Zeta barrels northeast after battering storm-weary coast A fast-moving Zeta weakened to a tropical storm as it barreled northeast Thursday morning after ripping through Louisiana and Mississippi where storm-weary residents were advised to stay indoors overnight while officials assessed the havoc the storm had wrought.
Nation Oct 28 Hurricane Zeta makes landfall in Louisiana The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Zeta has crashed ashore in storm-weary Louisiana as a powerful Category 2 storm, striking the latest blow of an extraordinarily busy Atlantic tropical storm season.
Nation Oct 10 Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana Ripping tarps off damaged roofs and scattering massive piles of storm debris in the wind and water, Hurricane Delta inflicted fresh damage in Louisiana along the same path of destruction Hurricane Laura carved just six weeks earlier.
Nation Oct 08 ‘Sheer anxiety’: Louisiana braces itself for Hurricane Delta Louisiana residents still recovering from the devastation of a powerful hurricane less than two months ago braced for another hit as Hurricane Delta steamed north through the Gulf on Thursday.
Nation Aug 25 WATCH: Texas governor addresses Hurricane Laura as evacuation orders issued More than half a million people have been ordered to evacuate the Texas and Louisiana coasts ahead of Hurricane Laura. Forecasters expect Laura to grow to a major Category 3 hurricane over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico…
Nation Aug 24 Gulf Coast braces ahead of Tropical Storm Laura and Tropical Storm Marco The two-storm combination could bring a history-making onslaught of life-threatening winds and flooding along the coast, stretching from Texas to Alabama, forecasters said.
Arts Apr 01 New Orleans jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis dead at 85 Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died. He was 85.