NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ Rather than set up a Road Home-style program for victims of hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the Louisiana Recovery Authority is proposing letting affected parishes handle programs for housing and infrastructure rebuilding locally.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Department of Psychiatry at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans has been awarded a nearly $1.6 million grant.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- In a sign of recovery for a neighborhood that was badly battered by Hurricane Katrina's flood waters, a groundbreaking is set for what officials are calling a state-of-the-art school.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Some New Orleans residents still in trailers three years after Hurricane Katrina are being given more time to move out of them.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A confidant of former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial reported to federal prison Tuesday and started serving a five-year sentence for his role in a corruption case.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The results of a recent visitor profile and economic impact study for Tales of the Cocktail conducted by the University of New Orleans show the total economic impact of this year's event was $7.6 million.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Disaster recovery centers have opened to help victims of hurricanes Ike or Gustav in three Louisiana communities.

CHALMETTE, La. (AP) -- When a Chalmette family that had been away for several weeks returned home to find their house had been burglarized, it did not take Sherlock Holmes to solve the crime.

SLIDELL, La. (AP) -- A 70-year-old Slidell man has been charged with negligent homicide in a two-vehicle crash that killed a motorcyclist.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Port of New Orleans has approved a 97.5 million dollar settlement with a major insurer over damages the port sustained during Hurricane Katrina.