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18 shot during New Orleans Mother’s Day parade
Update: Following this story’s publication, police raised the estimate of those shot to 18, including two 10-year-old children. A dozen people are believed to have been shot at a parade in the southern US city of New Orleans, police said Sunday. Garry Flot, a spokesman for the local police department,…
Watch live: New Orleans officials assess how they handled the Super Bowl
Officials with the city of New Orleans hold a news conference to discuss how the city handled the Super Bowl. Watch live, broadcast via NBC News on Feb. 5. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Super Bowl set to kick off in fun-loving New Orleans
The bands were playing, the crawfish boiling and daiquiri’s swirling Sunday as partygoers crammed bars and restaurants ahead of Super Bowl 47 — the pinnacle sporting event that transfixes America each year. New Orleans knows how to throw a bash and with the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras coming in…
Study of charter schools supported by Romney, Obama shows mixed results
The teacher’s command of his class is total. “Which one is the whole number?” he asks crisply. “Is it seven over three, or is it four?” He zeroes in on a child who gives the right answer, then the next task: “Seven over three divided by four over one? Hands,…
WATCH LIVE: Obama speaks in New Orleans after touring Isaac damage
President Barack Obama makes remarks at St. John’s Parish in New Orleans after touring the Isaac-damaged Gulf Coast. Watch video, courtesy of NBC News, below:…
New Orleans levees hold as Isaac floods Gulf coast
Severe flooding from Tropical Storm Isaac inundated the Gulf Coast early Thursday, but the multi-billion-dollar defenses built after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans seven years ago held firm. Officials ordered the evacuation of some 3,000 people in coastal Plaquemines Parish, the area hardest hit by the storm, with top winds…
Hurricane Isaac floods breach levee south of New Orleans
Rising waters from Hurricane Isaac have spilled over a levee south of New Orleans and inundated a residential area, a local official said Wednesday, as the storm bore down on the city seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the “Big Easy”, killing hundreds along the US Gulf Coast. Isaac, which…
Flashbacks and fear in New Orleans as hurricane strikes
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — As rain pounded at her windows Tuesday, Dorothy Ellis couldn’t stop thinking about the two days she spent clinging to a tree after her New Orleans home was swallowed by floodwaters. “It was bad, real bad,” 60-year-old Ellis said, as she flipped through photographs of what…
Uneasy New Orleans braces for Isaac, upgraded to hurricane
Isaac was upgraded Tuesday to hurricane status as New Orleans girded for the impact seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the “Big Easy” and killed 1,800 people across the US Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said an Air Force aircraft reported the storm’s maximum winds had increased…
Uneasy New Orleans braces for near-hurricane Isaac
New Orleans braced for another big storm Tuesday, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina flooded the fabled jazz city and killed 1,800 across the US Gulf Coast. The US National Hurricane Center said in its 1200 GMT advisory that Tropical Storm Isaac was on the verge of becoming…
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