GRETNA — It is one of the most infamous incidents to arise out of the aftermath of Katrina — a thin blue line of Gretna Police Department officers blocking passage across the Crescent City Connection ...

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GRETNA, La. — Little over a week after this mostly white suburb became a symbol of callousness for using armed officers to seal one of the last escape routes from New Orleans -- trapping thousands of ...

PEOPLE FROM around the country joined New Orleans activists November 7 for a protest march over a bridge that connects the city to the mostly white suburb of Gretna. During the Hurricane Katrina ...

CNN.com reports that as the heart of a hurricane-ravaged New Orleans filled with sewage-tainted floodwaters and corpses, Mayor Ray Nagin urged people to cross a bridge leading to the dry lands of the ...

A federal judge is weighing whether to toss out a lawsuit against Gretna and its police chief filed by a New Orleans couple who was barred from walking across the Crescent City Connection to the West ...

All Patryce Jenkins wanted was to walk home. For two days after Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005, Jenkins had wandered the flooded streets of New Orleans, exhausted, hungry, filthy and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan says a grand jury will review the findings from a state investigation into hurricane evacuees crossing the Crescent City Connection being ...

AMONG OTHER unanswered questions in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we have this one: Why didn’t stranded residents of flooded New Orleans simply walk to dry land? For many, the answer was simple and ...

Two women suing Gretna and Jefferson Parish police because they barred them from walking across the Crescent City Connection after Hurricane Katrina described their experiences Wednesday in their bid ...