via BBC News Tropical Storm Lee has made landfall in Louisiana, hurling rain at a part of the US Gulf coast still haunted by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina flood disaster. The storm came ashore 50 miles south-west of Lafayette, packing sustained winds of 45mph , the National Hurricane Center said. The US Gulf Coast is […]

In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters, according to present and former members of the department.