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Classic rockers Van Halen on Thursday abruptly postponed more than 30 tour dates, following their June 26 concert in New Orleans, representative Anna Loynes said.

A New Orleans police officer has been suspended for his online comment that Trayvon Martin deserved to die because he acted "like a thug."

Days before President Obama's signature healthcare law goes in front of the Supreme Court, GOP front-runner Mitt Romney vowed to repeal and replace the law, speaking to a supportive crowd in a suburb of New Orleans.

New Orleans police have issued an arrest warrant for actor Russell Brand on a charge of simple criminal damage to property valued at $700.

The scale of the long-term devastation inflicted on New Orleans has been revealed by the 2010 US census, which found that the city's population has collapsed by almost a third over the past decade.

From New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward to the Mississippi coast, people hit hard by Hurricane Katrina are paying homage to those killed by the storm's devastation.

The federal government will award $1.8 billion to New Orleans schools damaged by Hurricane Katrina, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, said Wednesday.

BP PLC says it may in the future drill in the same Gulf of Mexico oil reservoir that blew its top and caused one of the world's worst spills. Officials said Friday at a news briefing in New Orleans that the company hasn't closed the door to tapping the reservoir again. Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles says "there's lots of oil and gas here." He says "we're going to have to think about what to do with that at some point."

ProPublica, in an historic first for online journalism, won a coveted Pulitzer Prize on Monday for investigative reporting about controversial deaths at a New Orleans medical center following Hurricane Katrina.

Former Representative William J. Jefferson, a New Orleans Democrat, was sentenced for using his office to try to enrich himself and his relatives.