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New Orleanians breathed a collective sigh of relief last week, as celebrity super-couple Pitt and Jolie confirmed they are in late-stage negotiations to adopt Nagin.
The last time President Bush was in New Orleans, no one realized it quite literally would be the last time the president would be in New Orleans.
The New Orleans Levee Newspaper presents the William Jefferson Indictment Squares Game.
Karma stinks: The dynamiting of the levees in 1927
The $1 bill that embarrassingly captured the winning bid at auction for dinner with Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco is fetching more than $15,000 at auction on eBay.
In a hastily organized news conference, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared Broadmoor, the lower Ninth Ward and Lakeview to be the new “axis of evil.”
Nagin said his little-publicized plan to rebuild parts of the city using Lego blocks is moving along swiftly.
Rosie O’Donnell today shot Donald Trump after the famed millionaire took their war of words one step too far, comparing O’Donnell to “that idiot governor in Louisiana.”
After more than a year of frustration over the progress of rebuilding New Orleans, the Broadmoor community has announced its intent to declare its independence from the city.
There are some people in Louisiana who make sense. It just seems that so few of them hold elected office. The Levee believes C.B. Forgotston makes sense and, no, he doesn’t hold elected office.
Top Stories
Ray Nagin snow globes, in which the mayor of New Orleans does something for only as long as you can shake him, have become the most-sought-after items in the city after murder suspects and ways to shift blame by embattled public officials.
Amid public outcry over the perceived failures of her Road Home Program, embattled Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco now says the Road Home was created to mimic actual streets in the Crescent City.
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After seven current and former New Orleans police officers were indicted on charges stemming from a shooting episode a week after Hurricane Katrina, District Attorney Eddie Jordan said that officers cannot be allowed to "shoot and kill our citizens without justification, like rabid dogs. That kind of behavior just takes jobs away from our local drug gangs." -Bud Faust
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