“Hurricane Katrina” on The Daily Caller

NEW ORLEANS — More than five years after a man named Henry Glover was shot and his body burned here by police officers in the days after Hurricane Katrina, a jury has weighed in on the circumstances of his death. Three police officers were found guilty Thursday night on nine federal counts in an emotionally charged case that painted a grim portrait of the city’s troubled Police Department. (more)

Kanye West says he sympathizes with George Bush, who in his new book says West calling him a racist right after Hurricane Katrina hit “was one of the most disgusting moments” of his presidency. (more)

Americans across the country watched New Orleanians prevail and rise above the devastation and destruction brought on by Katrina and Rita five years ago. The nation’s eye is on us, once again, watching to see how we will rebound from the latest tragedy foisted upon us: BP’s oil spill. Our resiliency and unwavering commitment to our community, our business and our families remain as steadfast today as it was following the catastrophic storms five years ago. But today, there is a difference. The long-term impact of this epic spill on the economic foundation of the Gulf Coast region, spanning four states, is calamitous. (more)

The federal bureaucracy’s blundering response to Hurricane Katrina is a lesson in the ineffectiveness of big government. (more)

While the month of August for many Americans ushers in the end of the summer, for our coastal regions it brings the peak of hurricane season. As a nation, this time of year is also filled with the memories of a tragic event that visited our coasts just five years ago: Hurricane Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. History. (more)

Five years later, what good came from Hurricane Katrina? (more)

NEW ORLEANS — Gulf Coast residents tried to put Hurricane Katrina behind them on Sunday, marking its fifth anniversary by casting wreaths into the water to remember the hundreds killed. But part of the catastrophe lives on, in abandoned homes still bearing spray-painted circles indicating they had been searched and whether bodies were found inside. (more)

CHALMETTE, La. (AP) — Hundreds of mourners have dropped notes, cards and letters into a steel-gray casket in a symbolic burial of Hurricane Katrina. (more)

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf region, killing nearly 2,000 and displacing more than 250,000 others from Louisiana to Florida. This week, in a series titled “Hurricane Katrina: Five Years After,” FoxNews.com looks back on the costliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. (more)

Michael Knight lived those harrowing images so many others remember from Hurricane Katrina: the waters rising and rising, people trapped in their homes racing to their rooftops, crawling through windows to escape Katrina’s wrath. (more)

Five years after Hurricane Katrina, the biggest adversary for the people of Louisiana continues to be government at all levels — local, state and especially federal. (more)

The great wall of Lake Borgne is a monster. Nearly two miles long and 26 feet high, it spans a corner of the lake, 12 miles east of New Orleans. On Aug. 29, 2005, that corner funneled Hurricane Katrina’s surge into New Orleans, causing some of the city’s most violent flooding. Now the corner is being blocked. (more)

Spike Lee’s return to New Orleans for the follow-up of his sprawling post- Hurricane Katrina documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts” is just as big and anything but easy. (more)

Brad Pitt has waded into the Gulf oil spill controversy with an extraordinary veiled attack on BP. (more)

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Hurricane season is in full swing and it is on the minds of many citizens in South Mississippi and along the Gulf Coast just what exactly is the plan of action in the unfortunate happenstance that a tropical storm or hurricane enters the Gulf of Mexico and make landfall while oil is on the surface of the Gulf.  The potential for oil to be pushed ashore by storm surge or even to be rained down is extremely worrisome. With the now impending threat of Tropical Storm Bonnie, our worries will be tested and our worst fears could come to life. (more)

“Lead, follow or get out of the way.” This quote by Thomas Paine is unfortunately starting to fit our current president and his administration all too well. Mr. Paine was an author, revolutionary and one of the Founding Fathers. The president might consider this famous quote in the coming weeks and months when it comes to the BP spill and how to handle the results and the future oil drilling in America in the aftermath of the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. (more)