IN NEW ORLEANS, HOPES FADE FOR END TO VIOLENCE

The Boston Globe;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......in a part of New Orleans known as Central City. His body was...streets of New Orleans. "We hear gunshots...and lives in Central City. Gone are the...themselves in New Orleans. Officers have...including Central City. There, in...

New Orleans citizens press police on crime

New Orleans CityBusiness;  August 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ......members of the Central City community gathered...murder rate in New Orleans exploded. The public...Groups such as the New Orleans Crime Coalition...Watch NOLA and the Central City Alliance organized...touted improvements, New Orleans' murder rate ...

Guard Returns to New Orleans, Spurred by Crime

NPR All Things Considered;  June 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ......06-20-2006 Guard Returns to New Orleans, Spurred by Crime...news is the City of New Orleans is coming back. The...weekend, the beleaguered New Orleans Police Department...Lee writes for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. And...TRYMAINE LEE (Reporter, New ...

New Orleans Cops Probe 6 Killings in 1 Day

AP Online;  July 30, 2006 ;     478 words ...NEW ORLEANS - Police were investigating...Guard and state police to New Orleans after five teenagers were...have been 78 homicides in New Orleans, still far fewer than...return to the days when New Orleans was the murder capital...latest shooting was in the Central ...

6 Killed in Latest New Orleans Shootings

AP Online;  July 30, 2006 ;     533 words ...NEW ORLEANS - Three brothers and...in the middle of a Central City street with multiple...and state police to New Orleans to help fight crime...shooting happened in Central City, where most of the...been 78 homicides in New Orleans, still far fewer than...

Six fatal shootings under investigation: in New Orleans

Charleston Gazette;  July 31, 2006 ;     439 words ...NEW ORLEANS - Police were investigating...Guard and state police to New Orleans after five teenagers were...have been 78 homicides in New Orleans, still far fewer than...return to the days when New Orleans was the murder capital...latest shooting was in the Central ...

Playworld Systems to help rebuild Central City park in New Orleans

New Orleans CityBusiness;  January 9, 2007 ;     277 words ......organization Kaboom and the New Orleans Recreation Department...of children in the New Orleans community a safe...Additionally, the Greater New Orleans Foundation has given...at Taylor Park in Central City was removed after...sports fields open. Central ...

MASTER PLANNER SAYS, NEIGHBORHOODS KEY TO REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ......American city, New Orleans is a collection...the Unified New Orleans Plan, which...generic proposal. "New Orleans has fabulous architecture, but New Orleans is really about...African-American Central City neighborhood...of Milan and Central ...

New Orleans Police Still Struggling

AP Online;  June 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ...NEW ORLEANS - When the National Guard first rolled into town 10 months ago, New Orleans was descending into anarchy, a city besieged...Stressed-out, undermanned and under-equipped, the New Orleans Police Department, like the city it protects...downtown street corner, the deadliest crime ...

HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEW ORLEANS' EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The city of New Orleans issued the following...updates from the New Orleans Emergency Operations...available at City of New Orleans Web site at www.cityofno...free services to New Orleans residents. Kingsley...6221 ext. 131. * New Orleans Council on Aging ...

NEW ORLEANS MURDERS FALL AFTER GUARD, STATE POLICE ARRIVE.(News)

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  July 21, 2006 ;     336 words ......Trymaine Lee Newhouse News Service New Orleans -- It has been a month since the unprecedented union of the New Orleans Police Department, the National...have grown increasingly violent. Central City, a mostly residential area west of New Orleans' main business district, ...

Murders Down, Arrests Up in New Orleans

AP Online;  July 20, 2006 ;     225 words ...NEW ORLEANS - The number of murders in New Orleans has been cut nearly in half...the troubled streets of Central City, Pigeon Town and other neighborhoods...decrease in killings. In Central City, the city's bloodiest neighborhood...Ray Nagin. The violence in Central ...

Five New Orleans teenagers killed in street shooting

Xinhua News Agency;  June 17, 2006 ;     171 words ...Five New Orleans teenagers killed in street shooting...shooting in the southern U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana, CNN Television reported...dead before dawn on a street in the Central City neighborhood and their bodies were...Jonh Bryson, a police spokesman in New ...

City of New Orleans lists evacuation points

New Orleans CityBusiness;  August 29, 2008 ;     197 words ......evacuation, the city of New Orleans has created 17 designated...Lower Garden District - Central City Senior Center, 2020 Philip...Read Boulevard, eastern New Orleans - Mary Queen of Vietnam, 14001 Dwyer, eastern New Orleans

SEN. LANDRIEU POSTS TRAVEL DIARY ENTRY ON DAY IN NEW ORLEANS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ......coastal Louisiana on her day in New Orleans. All of her entries appear exclusively...levee breaks. Then it was on to New Orleans East, and a visit to DIMHRS...wonderful lunch at Caf Reconcile in Central City, which, even before the disasters, was giving new hope to its ...