Environment

March 11, 2010 - By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica A second former New Orleans Police Department officer has been charged in federal courtin connection with the Sept. 4, 2005 shootings on the Danziger Bridge.Jeffrey Lehrmann, who left the NOPD to work for U.S. Immigration andCustoms Enforcement, was charged last month with concealing a crime,

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March 1, 2010 - There's an effort underway in Louisiana to use the 2010 Census to pull in federal funding for Cajun and Creole cultural programs, and it's stirring up some controversy over how to best classify members of the state's French-speaking cultures.

February 26, 2010 - By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica Former New Orleans Police Department Lt. Michael Lohman pleadedguilty to a single count of conspiring to obstruct justice, inconnection with one of a string of violent encounters between policeand civilians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Policeshot at least 10 people during the week after the storm made landfall.