World May 16 Amid Flooding Threat in Louisiana, Not All Obeying Evacuation Order In Krotz Springs, La., the Mississippi River threatens to inundate local homes and businesses, but not everyone is heeding the call to evacuate the area. EmbedVideo(573, 482, 304); Tune in to Monday's NewsHour for Bearden's full report…
Nation Apr 04 Program Offers Badly Wounded Vets a Rugged Road Back to Health On the NewsHour Monday, we present a profile of LifeQuest -- a private, civilian-run organization in Colorado Springs that helps badly wounded veterans recover their physical and mental health. The non-profit group uses a combination of physical exercise and Outward…
World Mar 01 Students Experience Hunger to Raise Money for Haiti Students sort clothes at World Vision warehouse. Photo by Tom Bearden Any parent can testify to the fact that teenagers can sometimes resemble a plague of locusts -- they can eat you out of house and home. So it…
World Sep 10 Trapped Miners’ Families Stay Vigilant in Chile COPIAPO, Chile | The makeshift tent city at the entrance to the San Jose gold and copper mine houses relatives of the 33 miners trapped by a cave-in nearly half a mile underground. For more than a month, they have…
Science Aug 26 At Louisiana Forum, Questions on Oil Spill’s Long-Term Impact So many questions, so few definitive answers. Last Saturday, I participated in the taping of a television program called "Louisiana Public Square." It's part of a monthly public affairs series that airs on the six non-commercial television stations that…
Economy Aug 13 Debate Over Reopening Gulf Fishing Grounds Falls Along Surprising Lines The state of Louisiana is about to reopen several state-controlled fishing grounds that were closed because of the Macondo oil well disaster. You'd think that fishermen would be thrilled with that idea. You'd be wrong. A couple of dozen…
Science Aug 06 In Louisiana, Journalists and Cleanup Crews Bake in the Heat If you're not used to it, the heat and humidity along the Gulf Coast can be devastating. I'm not used to it, despite having made eight trips to the Gulf since April 28. I live in Colorado, where the humidity…
Science Aug 05 Gulf Residents Ask: Will Promises Be Broken on the Oil Spill Response? A lot of people in south Louisiana think the rest of the country is about to abandon them. Again. On Wednesday, the U.S. government announced that most of the oil from the Macondo well blowout is already gone…
Science Aug 02 Going Aboard the Drillship Discoverer Enterprise in the Gulf For months, the eyes of the world were focused on the images coming from the drillship Discoverer Enterprise. Cameras aboard the ship's ROVs, or remotely operated vehicles, provided part of the video stream from the blown out well,…
Science Jul 16 For Fishermen on Louisiana’s Coast, Guarded Optimism on an Oil Fix Out-of-work fishermen do maintenance on their boats at the Delta Marina in Empire, La. "At least we're taking more oil out of the Gulf than is going in," says Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish. Cautiously optimistic. Pleased, but guarded.