Latest by Janet McConnaughey
Published on May 6, 2021 - Page 4
A small plane crashed into a Mississippi home, killing one of the home’s four occupants and three Texas residents who were flying to a university...
Published on October 10, 2019 - Page 5
NEW ORLEANS — FEMA buys flood-prone homes more often in wealthy, populous counties than in poor, rural areas, even though lower-income rural areas...
Published on November 18, 2017 - Page 7
The family of a 5-year-old boy whose skull was crushed in the rotating wall of a hotel restaurant has sued the Atlanta hotel, accusing it of...
Published on October 27, 2017 - Page 20
NEW ORLEANS — Talk about spooky: a Halloween-themed tour of New Orleans’ grisly history is not for the squeamish. The Historic New Orleans...
Published on May 4, 2017 - Page 20
NEW ORLEANS — Plastic pipes that energy companies would otherwise send to landfills are being turned into “fish attractors “ by wildlife biologists...
Published on February 13, 2017 - Page 17
NEW ORLEANS — “Josie came to this city... to have a good time and she is going to have it while she lasts,” one madam advertised in a 1903 directory...
Published on April 24, 2016 - Page 22
NEW ORLEANS — In the past month, three landscape company employees have died in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas when riding mowers or tractors...
Published on April 2, 2016 - Page 5
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. — After Hurricane Katrina wiped out his timber 11 years ago, Jason McDonald wanted a crop less susceptible to Mississippi’s...
Published on November 22, 2015 - Page 7
Herds of feral horses are roaming on thousands of acres in Louisiana where soldiers conduct intensive training, posing a danger and a nuisance to...
Published on May 28, 2013 - Page 12
NEW ORLEANS — Before Cpl. Thomas “Cotton” Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in 1944, he wrote what he called his “last life request” to anyone...