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Jan 4, 2025 | 
apnews.com | Jim Mustian |Jack Brook |Stephen Smith |Sara Cline
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans mourned, wept and danced at a vigil Saturday evening along the famous thoroughfare where a man rammed a pickup truck into a crowd, killing and injuring revelers who were there to celebrate the new year. A makeshift memorial of crosses and pictures of the 14 deceased victims included candles, flowers and teddy bears. Victims’ relatives held each other, some crying.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Stephen Smith |Chevel Johnson
New Orleans marks with parade the 64th anniversary of 4 little girls integrating city schools 1 of 3 | New Orleans marked the 64th anniversary of the day four Black 6-year-old girls integrated New Orleans schools Thursday with a celebratory parade — in stark contrast to the tensions and anger that roiled the city on Nov. 14, 1960.
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Nov 14, 2024 | apnews.com | Stephen Smith |Chevel Johnson
New Orleans marks with parade the 64th anniversary of 4 little girls integrating city schools 1 of 3 | New Orleans marked the 64th anniversary of the day four Black 6-year-old girls integrated New Orleans schools Thursday with a celebratory parade — in stark contrast to the tensions and anger that roiled the city on Nov. 14, 1960.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Stephen Smith |Chevel Johnson
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans marked the 64th anniversary of the day four Black 6-year-old girls integrated New Orleans schools with a parade — a celebration in stark contrast to the tensions and anger that roiled the city on Nov. 14, 1960. Federal marshals were needed then to escort Tessie Prevost Williams, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and Ruby Bridges to school while white mobs opposing desegregation shouted, cursed and threw rocks.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Stephen Smith
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology have detected what may be an ancient Mayan city cloaked by jungle in southern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. The lost city, dubbed Valeriana by researchers after the name of a nearby lagoon, may have been as densely settled as the better-known pre-Hispanic metropolis of Calakmul, in the south part of the Yucatan peninsula.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Stephen Smith |Kate Payne |Heather Hollingsworth
PERRY, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — Las autoridades aceleraron el domingo el transporte de suministros por vía aérea y el restablecimiento de las comunicaciones y las carreteras en la inundada Asheville, Carolina del Norte, al tiempo que los residentes a lo largo de la costa de Florida azotada por la tormenta se reunían para los servicios religiosos en medio de los escombros dejados por el huracán Helene.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Stephen Smith |Kate Payne |Heather Hollingsworth
PERRY, Fla. (AP) — For movement in the new cycleMassive rains from powerful Hurricane Helene left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue, as the cleanup began from a tempest that killed at least 64 people, caused widespread destruction across the U.S. Southeast and knocked out power to millions of people.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Stephen Smith |Kate Payne |Heather Hollingsworth
PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Massive rains from powerful Hurricane Helene left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue, as the cleanup began from a tempest that killed at least 64 people, caused widespread destruction across the U.S. Southeast and knocked out power to millions of people.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Stephen Smith |Kate Payne |Heather Hollingsworth
El paso de Helene por el sureste de EEUU deja docenas de muertos y a millones sin electricidad slideCount | Jill Rice observa los daños causados en su tienda por la inundación provocada por el paso del huracán Helene, el 27 de septiembre de 2024, en Gulfport, Florida. (AP Foto/Mike Carlson) slideCount | En la imagen, vista de la destrucción causada por el huracán Helene en el Faraway Inn Cottages and Motel, en el Cayo Cedar, Florida, el 27 de septiembre de 2024.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
apnews.com | Stephen Smith |Kate Payne |Heather Hollingsworth
PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Helene caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeastern U.S. as it raced through, and more than 3 million customers went into the weekend without any power and for some a continued threat of floods.
