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UPDATE ~ New Orleans mayor declares "martial law", pulls police from rescues to halt looting
Furious at a rising tide of lawlessness in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Wednesday evening reassigned 1,500 New Orleans police from search-and-rescue missions to halt widespread looting in the battered and flooded (More) |
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EPA temporarily waives fuel standards to head off gas price hike after Katrina
The US Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday temporarily waived certain regulatory fuel standards required under the Clean Air Act in an attempt to head off any shortages and rising prices caused by Hurricane Katrina. EPA Administrator Stephe (More) |
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Louisiana officials struggle to contain looting in Katrina's wake
Officials struggled Wednesday to control looting in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as tiring law enforcement officers and National Guardsmen undertook more rescue and relief efforts. Widespread looting throughout the city has been repo (More) |
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UPDATE ~ Louisiana "martial law" declarations clarified
The Louisiana Attorney General's office late Tuesday issued a number of clarifications concerning the "martial law" assertions made earlier in the day by local officials and law enforcement agents in the wake of devastation caused by (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Martial law declared in New Orleans as levees break, waters rise
New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV is reporting that martial law has been declared in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish after levee breaks caused major flooding in the city Tuesday morning, sending waves of water through the downtown and French Quarte (More) |
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Mayor orders New Orleans evacuated ahead of hurricane hit
Mayor Ray Nagin ordered the entire US city of New Orleans (population 484,674) evacuated Sunday in advance of the anticipated Gulf Coast landfall Monday morning of Hurricane Katrina , currently described by the National Weather Service as a "po (More) |
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Louisiana state of emergency declaration [Governor LA]
Declaration of a state of emergency in the state of Louisiana, Proclamation No. 48 KBB 2005, Governor Kathleen Blanco, August 26, 2005 . Excerpt:SECTION 1: Pursuant to the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, R.S. 29 (More) |
Tojo and other Japanese WWII leaders executed for war crimes
On December 23, 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed for war crimes in Tokyo.
Learn more about the Tokyo War Crimes Trials.
