When the Federal Emergency Management Agency mailed out 83,000 debt notices this year to victims of Hurricane Katrina and other...
Articles by Michael Kunzelman
A federal judge on Aug. 24 dismissed a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana accusing two self-described whistleblowers of illegally...
The final wave of holdouts has mostly packed up and left this Louisiana town as water from the swollen Atchafalaya...
They call it the Vidalia Riverfront — a strip of land between the Mississippi River and the levee, with a...
In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP...
A federal judge said Jan. 28 that he wasn’t trying to deprive states of their rights when he appointed Alabama’s...
The former director of aviation at New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his...
A federal appeals court has rejected a $21 million settlement of Hurricane Katrina damage claims that some residents had complained...
A federal jury has awarded more than $650,000 to two Ohio tourists who were arrested in New Orleans, La., on...
A government contractor isn’t immune from claims that it performed shoddy work that resulted in the failure of a New...