NEW ORLEANS — It was like a modern-day treasure map — a computerized diagram of neighborhoods with codes marking the addresses where National Guard soldiers came upon caches of goods taken by looters ...

NEW ORLEANS -- As dumbfounded hotel guests Tuesday watched from balconies and police officers stood several hundred yards away, dozens of brazen looters began ransacking flooded storefronts along New ...

This story, headlined "Bridge exposes racial divide," was originally published Sept. 22, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The Times-Picayune's ...

A wave of pictures have flooded the media depicting the devastation of Katrina. Commentator Lester Spence says that to some viewers, it appears as if the images have been "racialized." Spence is an ...

WASHINGTON -- My Duke University class on Family and Community had no trouble with the New Orleans "looters" who smashed store windows for food and clothing. They had done their reading, so they ...