Philanthropy has the opportunity to make a huge difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people as it responds to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. But the risk is great that ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Goods donated by Bozeman-area residents and businesses to help Hurricane Katrina victims will ...

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, most of Sneed Elementary School librarian Karen Jones Shiver's family had already left town. Her 86-year-old grandmother, however, decided to stay on the sixth ...

Are the victims of the California wildfires benefiting from the lessons America learned in its botched response to Hurricane Katrina? Peter Apps, who writes a blog on AlertNet, a Web site on ...

Five years after Hurricane Katrina tore the roof off of Dorothy McClendon’s Biloxi, Miss., home, sending a deluge behind its walls and upending the ramp required for her wheelchair, she is expecting ...

Gisele Perez lives in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Baldwin Hills, 1,900 miles from her Uncle Roy’s home in New Orleans. Now, she is trying to find him -- long distance. Her hand shaking, Perez ...

It took four years for the federal government to stop providing rent money for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina — the program ended September 1 — but more than 1,800 families from the Harris ...

COSHOCTON − Janet Lawrence was part of the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in 2005. Now retired from Coshocton County Emergency Medical Services, what she recalls the most is how positive the people ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Despite chilly weather conditions, two area deejays organized a benefit concert in Bogert Park to ...

A Hurricane Katrina evacuee who killed two men in a hail of gunfire in Oklahoma City 20 years ago became the second person executed in the U.S. this week. Oklahoma executed Kendrick Antonio Simpson by ...

The team from Endless Thread remembers back to the Hurricane Katrina disaster and talks with folks who used Google Maps and Google Earth to monitor their homes and neighborhoods, to check on damage ...

A Hurricane Katrina evacuee who became a death row inmate after killing two men in a hail of gunfire in Oklahoma City is set to become the second person executed in the U.S. this week. Oklahoma is ...