A Caddo Parish judge convicted Woods and the baby’s father, Emmanuel Scott, from a 2006 indictment. Under Louisiana's unusually broad murder statute, prosecutors needed only prove the pair was negligent for not taking the infant to the doctor before his death.

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm, Louisiana has completed its largest coastal restoration project in state history.

When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, it wiped out the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people. But one industry thrived by necessity in the aftermath: demolition, debris removal and construction — the building trades in ...

HOUSTON – When Jermaine Moore needs a haircut, he looks for barbers from New Orleans. At a Shaving Grace barbershop in the southeast Houston area, he's found one. "New Orleans barbers cut different," Moore said. "Our hair texture is different. This is ...

NhuNgoc Pham was a high school student living in the New Orleans metro area when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Her parents, immigrants from Vietnam, had recently purchased and been living in their new home for about a month when ...

It’s now been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. Tied, along with Hurricane Harvey in 2017, as the costliest storm in U.S. history, Katrina significantly altered the way Americans think about natural disasters, federal assistance ...

Twenty years later, Hannibal Nicholls recounts what was going on in his life toward the end of August 2005. He was in college and was engaged to his fiancée. Then suddenly, he was in the Orleans Parish Prison complex, fearing for his life as floodwater ...