Reuters - A federal judge in New Orleans on Friday ruled that residents of areas heavily flooded when Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters were funneled down a New Orleans navigation channel can sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

AP - A grand jury to be formed this month will probe allegations that a doctor and two nurses euthanized four critically ill patients in the days after Hurricane Katrina, prosecutors said Thursday.

AFP - UN scientists delivered their starkest warning yet about global warming, saying fossil fuel pollution would raise temperatures this century, worsen floods, droughts and hurricanes, melt polar sea ice and damage the climate system for a thousand years to come.

AP - The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to divert up to $1.3 billion for levee repairs from the Mississippi River's East Bank, which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, to the West Bank, where tens of thousands of people have resettled.

AP - A grand jury to be formed this month will probe allegations that a doctor and two nurses euthanized four critically ill patients in the days after Hurricane Katrina, prosecutors said Thursday.

AP - The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to divert up to $1.3 billion for levee repairs from the Mississippi River's East Bank, which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, to the West Bank, where tens of thousands of people have resettled.