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NFL filings detail scuttled bounty rehearing
The NFL filed court documents Friday indicating suspended Saints linebacker Jon Vilma initially agreed to a new bounty hearing with Commissioner Roger ...
Country music rising star Hunter Hayes back in La.
Rising country singer Hunter Hayes knows a thing or two about hurricanes. The south Louisiana native has seen his share and even named his breakout ...
NFLPA asks for restraining order in bounty case
The NFL Players Association has asked a federal judge for a temporary restraining order that would allow players suspended in connection with the ...
In southern La., residents blame levees for floods
At the urging of residents who have long felt forgotten in the shadow of more densely populated New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers says it will ...
Obama: Help is on the way to hurricane zone
President Barack Obama insisted on Monday that the federal government can help Americans in crisis, whether they're autoworkers fearful that their ...
Another disaster brings candidates to Gulf Coast
Mitt Romney wasted no time after accepting the GOP presidential nomination in heading to Louisiana to see the damage from Hurricane Isaac, changing ...
Days after Isaac, flooding and outages remain
Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still ...
As Isaac pushes north, Gulf Coast slowly recovers
As the remnants of Hurricane Isaac pushed their way up the Mississippi valley on Saturday, spinning off severe thunderstorms and at least four ...
Isaac finally leaves Gulf; uncertainty fills gap
As Isaac's drenching rains and cooling winds drifted north of the Gulf Coast, heat and humidity moved back in — along with frustration, exhaustion and ...
Romney starts fall campaign visiting storm victims
Republican Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town ...
Isaac renews old debate about Louisiana levees
When Hurricane Isaac whirled into the Gulf Coast this week, the federal levee system protecting New Orleans did its job. But the patchwork of ...
Misery in La. as Isaac flooding leaves power out
Isaac sloshed north into the central U.S. on Friday after flooding stretches of Louisiana and Mississippi and knocking out power, leaving entire ...
Jindal: 70 pct of floodwater will soon be out
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says officials expect to have 70 percent of the water out of an area of Plaquemines Parish that flooded after being hit ...
Emotional Vitt ready to hand over Saints
Joe Vitt coached to the very last minute, sprinting down the field and screaming for a timeout as his team moved into scoring territory.
Weakening Isaac hovers over water-logged Louisiana
Isaac hovered over Louisiana for a third day Thursday, shedding more than a foot of additional rain that forced authorities to hurriedly evacuate ...
Rutgers-Tulane game on at Superdome as scheduled
The Rutgers-Tulane football game will be played Saturday night in the Superdome, only days after Isaac swept across the New Orleans area with ...
Gulf Coast has first-name relationship with storms
Along the Gulf Coast, you're not a real hurricane veteran until you're on a first-name basis with one of the killer storms. That's because for all the ...
Levees around New Orleans prove reliable
Seven years ago, the Army Corps of Engineers was desperately trying to plug breaches in the city's broken and busted levee system. Since those ...
Iconic images from Katrina revisited for Isaac
Hurricane Isaac made landfall Tuesday on the eve of the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina that devastated the same area of the northern Gulf ...
Rescues continue as Isaac floods parts of La.
Isaac dropped unrelenting rain Thursday, flooding areas north and south of New Orleans, and officials had to scramble to evacuate and rescue people ...
Isaac steers clear of direct blow on New Orleans
Isaac's whistling winds lashed this city and the storm dumped nearly a foot of rain on its desolate streets, but the system of levee pumps, walls and ...
Officials may breach levee as Isaac storms inland
Newly downgraded Tropical Storm Isaac plodded its way across Louisiana on Wednesday, inundating parts of a mostly rural area southeast of New Orleans, ...
Officials: Levees, pumps holding up as Isaac hits
Officials say New Orleans' flood protections system is holding up so far as Hurricane Isaac storms through the area. Army Corps of Engineers ...
Isaac nears New Orleans, floods rural La. levee
Hurricane Isaac pushed water over a rural levee to flood some homes, knocked out power and immersed beach-front roads in Louisiana and Mississippi ...
Isaac threatens storm surge, floods all day
Hurricane Isaac is moving slowly inland toward New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico and threatens dangerous storm surge and flooding all day. The U.S.