Fans from ‘Bama celebrate BCS title win over LSU
Alabama fans poured onto Bourbon Street late Monday night to celebrate the team’s second BCS title win in three years with shouts of “Roll Tide,” exchanging hugs with strangers as their brethren showered them with beads from balconies.
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Fans from Alabama celebrate with 21-0 BCS championship win over LSU
NEW ORLEANS — Alabama fans poured onto Bourbon Street late Monday night to celebrate the team’s second BCS title win in three years with shouts of “Roll Tide,” exchanging hugs with strangers as their brethren showered them with beads from balconies. Meanwhile, in Tuscaloosa, Ala., hundreds of people danced in the street after ‘Bama beat LSU 21-0 in a defensive performance as impressive as they …
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Coast Guard’s Eagle among tall ships confirmed for NOLA port visit
The Coast Guard’s Barque Eagle is one of three tall ships to be confirmed as visiting New Orleans in April, when the Navy kicks off three years of national events commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and the Star-Spangled Banner .
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Coast Guard’s Eagle among tall ships confirmed for NOLA port visit
Grant to LSUHSC Tumor Registry creates pediatric cancer research tool
( Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center ) Dr. Vivien Chen, Professor of Public Health and Director of the Louisiana Tumor Registry at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has been awarded a grant totaling $794,091 over three years to develop a system to rapidly collect and report pediatric cancer cases at the local, state, and national levels.
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Spike Lee: ‘Oscars don’t Matter’ & why He hasn’t Made a Feature in 3 Years
*”I haven’t made a feature film in three years,” said Spike Lee. Lee has lately focused on documentary work with two films about post-Katrina New Orleans for HBO. But he had designs on biopics about Jackie Robinson – the Brooklyn Dodgers slugger who broke baseball’s color line – and soul icon James Brown. And he
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Trey McIntyre Project brings dances with regional rhythms to D.C.’s Harman Hall
When the New Orleans Ballet Association asked Trey McIntyre to create a dance that drew on the city’s character, the choreographer knew to steer clear of anything Mardi Gras-related. It was 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina, and McIntyre wanted to evoke something more deeply authentic and essential about the robust musical traditions of a city that had become a second home to him, and …
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Trey McIntyre Project brings dances with regional rhythms to D.C.’s Harman Hall
New Orleans woman given 3-year sentence in Hurricane Katrina fraud case
A 48-year-old New Orleans woman has been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for theft, fraud and other federal charges stemming from a scheme to cheat government agencies out of nearly $477,000 following Hurricane Katrina .
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New Orleans woman given 3-year sentence in Hurricane Katrina fraud case
Newell Normand maintains high approval rating as Jefferson Parish sheriff
After three years in office, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand still boasts a 78 percent job approval rating, higher even than Mitch Landrieu just six months into his term as New Orleans mayor, according to a poll released Tuesday by the University of New Orleans.
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Newell Normand maintains high approval rating as Jefferson Parish sheriff
Ex-cop sentenced in Katrina bridge shootings
Cars pass over the Danziger Bridge July 14, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. NEW ORLEANS a ‘ A former New Orleans police detective who admitted he helped cover up deadly shootings of unarmed residents on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina has been sentenced to three years in prison.
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1974: Tourism stimulus package
In June Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked BP to give the city $75 million over three years, which would be used for marketing the city to travelers, thus mitigating the damage done to its image by the Gulf oil spill.
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1974: Tourism stimulus package
