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Out of an estimated 215 bodies found in nursing homes and hospitals in New Orleans, [6] [7] Memorial had the largest number. [ 8 ] In July 2006, a Louisiana judge found probable cause to order the arrest of Pou and two nurses for second degree murder in the deaths of several of the patients, following a nearly year-long investigation by the ...
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American journalist Sheri Fink.The book details the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in August 2005, and is an expansion of a Pulitzer Prize-winning article written by Fink and published in The New York Times Magazine in 2009.
v. t. e. Hurricane Katrina was a devastating and deadly Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. [ 1 ] Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major ...
Carlos Marcello. Carlos Joseph Marcello[ 1] (Sicilian Italian); [Mor-sel-lo] born Calogero Minacore [kaˈlɔːdʒero minaˈkɔːre]; February 6, 1910 – March 3, 1993) was an Italian-American crime boss of the New Orleans crime family from 1947 to 1983.
Mark James Robert Essex(August 12, 1949[4]– January 7, 1973) was an American serial sniper and black nationalistknown as the "New Orleans Sniper"who killed a total of nine people, including five police officers, and wounded twelve others, in two separate attacks in New Orleanson December 31, 1972, and January 7, 1973.
Three men were killed in Houston, 3 at Port Arthur, 1 at Beaumont, 3 at Lake Charles, La., 2 at New Orleans, and 2 at Mobile. [129] At least two of the reported 14 people killed were strikers: an ILA member named Etienne Christ shot to death in Port Arthur, Texas, on 10/21, [130] and striker Samuel L. Brandt shot to death in Houston on 11/25. [131]
AccuWeather RealVue™ Satellite shows smoke streaming northwestward across I-10 northeast of New Orleans at 7:50 a.m. CST, approximately 3 hours after the accident occurred. AccuWeather Senior ...
Unit. Intelligence Corps. Battles/wars. Korean War. Ernest Nathan "Dutch" Morial (October 9, 1929 – December 24, 1989), was an American politician and a leading civil rights advocate. He was the first black mayor of New Orleans, serving from 1978 to 1986. [ 1] He was the father of Marc Morial, who served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002.