A federal judge rules that a scientist who said shoddy levee work caused Hurricane Katrina’s devastating floods wasn’t muzzled by his work for Louisiana State University because he wasn’t speaking as a school employee. Ivor van Heerden filed a whistleblower …
The Gulf Coast is marking the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with commemorations to honor those killed during the catastrophic storm that left New Orleans and dozens of coastal towns in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana devastated. Monday marked the passage …
A federal judge on Aug. 24 dismissed a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana accusing two self-described whistleblowers of illegally copying and circulating documents containing confidential information about homeowners applying to a Hurricane Katrina grant program. U.S. District Judge James …
Members of the Waveland Police Department survived Hurricane Katrina by grabbing a tree in front of their building and hanging on for their lives when a wall of water washed away most of the town on Aug. 29, 2005. Six …
Where do you even start? Do you start by carting away the Chokai Maru, the 150-foot (45-meter) ship that was lifted over a pier and slammed into a house in this port town? Do you start with the thousands of …