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Sailboats sit in the parking lot of the South Shore Marina on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, September 21, 2005 (Reuters)

Millions spent on upkeep of empty Katrina lots

More than 3,000 lots flooded by Hurricane Katrina and bought with federal money in an emergency bailout sit idle across this city - a multimillion-dollar drain on federal, state and city coffers that lends itself to no easy solution.

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FEMA said there were three trailers still left elsewhere in Louisiana from the 2005 hurricane season (AP)

Last FEMA trailer leaves New Orleans

The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after floodwalls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the city to flood.

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The officers face possible life terms after the shootings on Danziger bridge (reuters)

Jury convicts officers in post-Katrina shootings

A jury has convicted five current or former police officers of deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina

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Hurricane Katrina had a devestating effect on New Orleans (Reuters, file)

Katrina shooting victim's skull still missing

Rebecca Glover said her family could not have been more horrified by what happened to her nephew.

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The shootings at the Danziger Bridge (above) happened September 4, 2005 as police struggled to regain control of the city (Reuters)

3 officers plead not guilty in Katrina shootings

Three of the officers charged in the shooting deaths of two unarmed residents in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath have entered not guilty pleas.

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The 9-11 attacks kicked off the use of the internet as a primary news medium

The stories that changed the internet

Do you remember the internet pre-millennium? The whirr and click of the modem, the interminable waits, bulletin boards?

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Negligence ruling in Katrina floods may cost feds

The federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.

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Man convicted of killing 5 teens after Katrina

A Louisiana man has been convicted of gunning down five teenagers in a grisly crime that prompted the governor to bring National Guard troops back to New Orleans to help curb violence in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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