A new book identifies former Mayor Ray Nagin as one of those men. “Katrina: After the Flood” is as harrowing as it is riveting in recounting the tale of a city too broken to fight off its ...

The former New Orleans mayor was convicted of multiple fraud, bribery, and conspiracy counts just now by a federal jury. More updates as they come in. A New Orleans reader who is a lawyer tells ...

New Orleans voters have a history of electing dark-horse candidates. "Examples of that would be Ray Nagin, LaToya Cantrell -- you know, they weren't early front runners, going all the way back to ...