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Emergency services attend the scene on Bourbon Street after a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon Street on Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Driver rams into New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing at least 15

January 1, 2025 at 5:42 p.m.

A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year's Day, killing 15 people as he steered around a police blockade and rammed a pickup truck...

Lori-Ann Bergeron checks on the graves of her sister and mother to see that they were not disturbed by flooding, in the aftermath of Hurricane Francine, in Dulac, La., Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Gulf Coast residents still reeling from Hurricane Ida clean up mess left by Francine

September 13, 2024 at 8:25 a.m.

Shortly after Hurricane Francine’s storm surge flooded a cemetery in the Louisiana bayou town of Dulac, Lori-Ann Bergeron arrived to check on three generations of family graves. Their tombstones were...

Dulac residents, top left, sit on their front porch as they watch water rise around their elevated home as the effects of Hurricane Francine are felt along the Louisiana coast on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

Francine weakens moving inland from the Gulf Coast after hurricane winds cause power outages

September 12, 2024 at 6:26 a.m.

Francine weakened Thursday after striking Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.

Sandbags and plastic line the door thresholds of a Bourbon Street nightclub in New Orleans' French Quarter, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, as the city was bracing for high winds and possible flooding as Hurricane Francine approached Louisiana's coast. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)

Thousands in the dark as Hurricane Francine strikes Louisiana, raising flood fears

September 11, 2024 at 9:43 p.m.

Hurricane Francine has slammed into Louisiana as a dangerous Category 2 storm, knocking out power to more than a quarter million customers and threatening a large stretch of the Gulf...

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