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Final blast of torrential rains unleashed by weakened Barry

Tropical Depression Barry spared New Orleans and Baton Rouge from catastrophic flooding, but even as it weakened and moved ...

Lois Bergeron, Steve Bergeron

Barry's flood threat lingers as storm slowly sweeps inland

Tropical Depression Barry dumped rain as it slowly swept inland through Gulf Coast states Sunday, sparing New Orleans from ...

Ashley Boudreaux

Hurricane Barry's rain and floods hammer Gulf environment

Hurricane Barry could affect the environment of the Gulf coast and Lower Mississippi Valley in numerous ways, from ...

Martha Young, Patricia Glen Plishka

The Latest: National Guard trying to rescue family of 5

The Latest on Barry (all times local): ___ 11:40 p.m. Authorities are trying to rescue a family of five who are trapped by ...

Weakened Barry rolls into Louisiana, drenches Gulf Coast

Barry rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy ...

Louisiana faces triple threat of storm surge, river, rain

When it comes to water, New Orleans faces three threats: the sea, the sky and the river. Tropical storms and hurricanes send ...

Alan Dot Richardson

'It's powerful': Tropical storm starts lashing Louisiana

Homeowners sandbagged their doors and tourists trying to get out of town jammed the airport Friday as Tropical Storm Barry ...

As Barry approaches, New Orleans residents debate evacuation

Go or stay? It is a question people in and around New Orleans ask themselves every time a threatening storm lurks in the ...

New Orleans' levees face a hard test as storm bears down

Even as Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Mississippi River's levees held up when those in other parts of the ...

AP source: Russell Westbrook going to Rockets for Chris Paul

Russell Westbrook and James Harden are together again, and Chris Paul is leaving Houston to make that reunion happen.

New Orleans area braces for first hurricane of the season

Thousands of Louisianans broke out sandbags or fled to higher ground Thursday as Tropical Storm Barry threatened to turn into ...

The Latest: Trump approves federal declaration due to Barry

The Latest on a tropical weather system in the Gulf of Mexico (all times local): 10:45 p.m. President Donald Trump has ...

Flooding swamps New Orleans; possible hurricane coming next

A storm swamped New Orleans streets and paralyzed traffic Wednesday as concerns grew that even worse weather was on the way: ...

Correction: Trump Quotes-Mural story

In a story July 8 about a mural in New Orleans with infamous Trump quotes, The Associated Press reported erroneously a quote ...

Judge: New Orleans can't take down Trump quotes mural

New Orleans cannot make a landowner take down a mural of infamous quotes recorded when Donald Trump was on "Access Hollywood" ...

The Latest: Judge: Would sex mural be legal? Nude Venus?

The Latest on a hearing on New Orleans' mural ordinance (all times local): 4:05 p.m. A federal judge has posed some tough ...

Kemba Walker

The Latest: Kupchak doesn't regret keeping Walker last year

The Latest on NBA free agency (all times EDT): 10 p.m. Hornets general manager Mitch Kupchak said in a conference call with ...

Investigators scour scene of Bahamas chopper crash for clues

Accident investigators in the Bahamas are going well below the surface of the water to try to figure out what went wrong in ...

Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris proposes $100B in homeownership assistance

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is proposing $100 billion in federal grants to pay for down payment and ...

Essence Festival kicks off 'party with a purpose' on July 4

Essence Festival's 25th "party with a purpose" has officially kicked off in New Orleans. Mayor Latoya Cantrell welcomed ...