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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

Janet McConnaughey

Traffic diverts around downed power lines August 30, 2021, in Metairie, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
August 30, 2021, 8:21 pm
Hundreds trapped, 1 million without power, as Ida churns through Louisiana
Officials say it could take six weeks to fully restore power to parts of New Orleans hit hard by hurricane, as extent of damage seen for first time
By Rebecca Santana, Kevin McGill and Janet McConnaughey
A section of roof that was blown off of a building in the French Quarter by Hurricane Ida winds blocks an intersection, Sunday, August 29, 2021, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
August 30, 2021, 8:00 am
Hurricane Ida knocks out New Orleans power, claims its first fatality
Unidentified person found dead after a tree crashes down on a home in Prairieville; the 150-mph winds make it the 5th strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland US
By Rebecca Santana, Kevin McGill and Janet McConnaughey
Waiter Marcos Huerta, right, serves a grill of fajitas at El Tiempo Cantina May 1, 2020, in Houston (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
May 2, 2020, 8:10 am
With quirks and restrictions, many US states lift lockdowns
Regulations gradually eased amid warnings from health experts that a second wave of infections could hit unless testing for the virus is expanded dramatically
By Janet McConnaughey and GRANT SCHULTE
This April 28, 2019, file photo, shows Ellis Marsalis during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced April 1, 2020, that Marsalis has died. He was 85. (AP Photo/Sophia Germer, File)
April 2, 2020, 8:54 am
Jazz great Ellis Marsalis Jr. dead at 85, coronavirus blamed
Marsalis, father of famed performer sons Wynton and Branford, was the patriarch of celebrated jazz dynasty; son says death resulted from complications of COVID-19 infection
By Janet McConnaughey and Rebecca Santana
The eye of Hurricane Nate pushes ashore as a category 1 storm in Biloxi, Mississippi, October 7, 2017. (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images/AFP)
October 8, 2017, 10:14 am
In first since Katrina, Hurricane Nate makes landfall in Mississippi
Emergency warnings issued for southern US states as 85-miles-per-hour winds head north
By Janet McConnaughey, Melinda Deslatte and Jeff Amy
Officers of the United States Army's segregated 366th Infantry Regiment on board the Aquitania, en route home from World War I service. Left to right: Lieutenant C.L. Abbot, South Dakota; Captain Joseph L. Lowe, Pacific Grove, California; Lieutenant Aaron R. Fisher, Lyles, Indiana, recipient of Distinguished Service Cross; Captain E. White, Pine Bluff, Arkansas (Wikimedia Commons/Public domain)
July 5, 2015, 8:27 am
Exhibit opens July 4 about black experience in WWII
Museum in New Orleans describes discrimination in the army, as well as before and after the war
By Janet McConnaughey
New York City real estate heir Robert Durst leaves a Houston courtroom, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP/Pat Sullivan)
March 17, 2015, 8:35 pm
Robert Durst back in court for 2nd straight day
Jewish real estate heir suspected of killing wife; mumbled that he ‘killed them all’ during TV documentary
By brian melley and Janet McConnaughey
New York City real estate heir Robert Durst leaves a Houston courtroom, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP/Pat Sullivan)
March 16, 2015, 11:27 am
Wealthy US Jewish developer arrested in TV murder mystery
Eccentric Robert Durst held on suspicion of spate of killings of women, says in HBO finale he ‘killed them all’
By Janet McConnaughey and brian melley
A Mississippi State University team found this bulla, or ancient clay seal, on a dig site in southern Israel last summer. It offers evidence of government activity in the 10th century B.C., a time when many scholars said a kingdom could not exist in the region. (Photo credit: University of Wisconsin/Nathaniel Greene)
December 20, 2014, 8:52 pm
Ancient clay seals may shed new light on King David
Archeologist discovers tiny artifacts in southern Israel possibly linked to biblical-era governments
By Janet McConnaughey
Dr. Otmar von Verschuer examines twins at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. As the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute’s Department for Human Heredity, Verschuer, a physician and geneticist, examined hundreds of pairs of twins to study whether criminality, feeble-mindedness, tuberculosis, and cancer were inheritable. In 1927, he recommended the forced sterilization of the 'mentally and morally subnormal.' Verschuer typified those academics whose interest in Germany’s 'national regeneration' provided motivation for their research. (Photo credit: Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin-Dahlem)
August 12, 2012, 3:22 pm
Role of scientists in Holocaust helps students grasp limits on human medical research
The ‘slippery path’ toward the Nazis’ extermination program holds important lessons for today, says Tulane School of Medicine head
By Janet McConnaughey
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