A decade after Hurricane Katrina a new city rises, but not for all

A decade after Hurricane Katrina a new city rises, but not for all
Deputy ambushed, fatally shot at gas station near Houston
Cutting the cable cord, explained
Ten years after Katrina, resilient New Orleans honors its victims
Construction accident closes down major San Francisco freeway
Hurricane Ignacio gains strength but expected to bypass Hawaii
Egypt sentences 3 Al-Jazeera reporters to 3 years in prison
Officials urge residents to stay prepared tropical storm
TV gunman plotted to 'hurt a lot more': state governor
Dominica prime minister says Erika leaves 20 dead
Former prep school student convicted of sex charges

Posted: 28 Aug 2015 12:44 PM PDT

"The city has changed and ultimately we needed to change," says New Orleans native Brooke Boudreaux.

Deputy ambushed, fatally shot at gas station near Houston

Posted: 29 Aug 2015 10:08 AM PDT

HOUSTON (AP) — A sheriff's deputy in uniform was shot and killed Friday night while filling up his patrol car at a suburban Houston gas station, according to authorities.

Cutting the cable cord, explained

Posted: 28 Aug 2015 01:12 PM PDT

Dozens of apps, subscription services and devices can help you ditch your cable company without facing any FOMO. Cable companies are scrambling to catch up by building better bundles and providing more options to their consumers.

Ten years after Katrina, resilient New Orleans honors its victims

Posted: 29 Aug 2015 10:29 AM PDT

By Kathy Finn and Edward McAllister NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - From the Lower Ninth Ward to the Super Dome, New Orleans launched a day of events on Saturday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, paying tribute to its victims and homage to the city's resilience in the face of disaster. The day began with a somber ceremony led by Mayor Mitch Landrieu to remember the 83 "forgotten" victims whose unclaimed bodies now rest in mausoleums at the Hurricane Katrina Memorial, housed in one of the city's historic above-ground cemeteries. Katrina killed more than 1,500 people, mostly in flooding that left 80 percent of New Orleans under water.

Construction accident closes down major San Francisco freeway

Posted: 29 Aug 2015 10:49 AM PDT

Emergency work was expected to block off the principal freeway connecting San Francisco to the south for at least 20 hours, after a construction crane crashed into and demolished a tower supporting high-voltage power lines. "All southbound and northbound lanes of U.S. Highway 101 are closed down until possibly 5 p.m. today," Officer Eric Anderson of the California Highway Patrol said on Saturday, warning of significant traffic delays. The crane was being used to construct a new freeway overpass in Burlingame, a suburb south of San Francisco.

Hurricane Ignacio gains strength but expected to bypass Hawaii

Posted: 29 Aug 2015 09:50 AM PDT

(Reuters) - Hurricane Ignacio intensified as it blew across the Pacific on a route likely to bypass Hawaii on Saturday, said the Central Pacific Hurricane Center of the National Weather Service. With winds gusting up to 115 miles per hour (185 kmph), the hurricane centered 835 miles (1,344 km) southeast of Honolulu and 625 miles (1,006 km) south east of Hilo was moving northwest at 8 miles per hour (13 kmph), said center spokesman Neil Honda. "It just became a hurricane from a tropical storm," Honda said, noting the weather became fierce enough to be classified a hurricane at 5 a.m. Pacific on Saturday.

Egypt sentences 3 Al-Jazeera reporters to 3 years in prison

Posted: 29 Aug 2015 09:09 AM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison, the latest twist in a long-running trial criticized worldwide by diplomats, press freedom advocates and human rights organizations.

Officials urge residents to stay prepared tropical storm

Posted: 28 Aug 2015 11:50 PM PDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Erika may be getting weaker, but Florida officials still want residents to be prepared.

TV gunman plotted to 'hurt a lot more': state governor

Posted: 28 Aug 2015 03:57 PM PDT

The embittered gunman who shot dead two young American journalists on live TV was seemingly hell-bent on committing more violence before he took his own life, Virginia's governor said Friday. Terry McAuliffe visited the studios of WDBJ television in Roanoke two days after Vester Flanagan killed reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, as they were conducting an interview. Flanagan, 41, a former WDBJ reporter fired in February 2013, fatally shot himself a few hours later after police caught up with his rented get-away car on a highway that leads into the city of Washington.

Dominica prime minister says Erika leaves 20 dead

Posted: 28 Aug 2015 08:14 PM PDT

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A weakening Tropical Storm Erika drenched Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Friday after leaving a trail of destruction that killed at least 20 people and left another 31 missing on the small eastern Caribbean island of Dominica, authorities said.

Former prep school student convicted of sex charges

Posted: 28 Aug 2015 06:35 PM PDT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A graduate of an exclusive New England prep school was cleared of felony rape but convicted of misdemeanor sex offenses Friday against a 15-year-old freshman girl in a case that exposed a campus tradition in which seniors competed to see how many younger students they could have sex with.