New Orleans faces deep budget cuts after governor recommended rejecting request to sell bonds

A push by top state officials that could have led to a takeover of the city of New Orleans’ finances has stalled after city ...
NOLA.com

Last Ray Nagin defendant sentenced: Frank Fradella bribed mayor with cash, granite

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's corruption saga saw its final player leave the stage Wednesday, as former contractor Frank Fradella was sentenced to serve one year in prison for paying Nagin ...

Edward J. Blakely, 87, Dies; Hired to Oversee Katrina Recovery in New Orleans

An urban planner who specialized in disaster recovery, he was brought in to revive the city after the 2005 storm. The task ...
WDSU

Seletha Nagin: 'My husband has never been involved in any criminal activities.'

The wife of Ray Nagin defended her husband in a letter to Judge Ginger Berrigan, who will announce a sentence for the former New Orleans mayor on Wednesday.Seletha Nagin didn't ask for mercy; she ...
WVUE FOX 8 News

Nagin defends himself, questions Cantrell indictment in Katrina anniversary speech

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - When Hurricane Katrina’s winds battered New Orleans and the levees failed, Ray Nagin was the city’s mayor. Nine years later, when Nagin was no longer mayor, a federal jury ...
WVUE FOX 8 News

Former Mayor Ray Nagin sentenced to 10 years in prison

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $84,264 in restitution. Nagin was already forced to forfeit more than $500,000 in May. Nagin, 58, was ...
NOLA.com

Ray Nagin, 'free at last,' seeks to have rights restored, including ability to vote, carry gun

Newly sprung from federal supervision, former Mayor Ray Nagin filed court papers in New Orleans this week seeking to have his rights restored, including his right to vote, his right to hold a passport ...
WDSU

Nagin at home but officially still in federal custody

There are a few more details on former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin’s release from federal prison. Although he’s now at his home in Texas, Nagin is officially still in federal custody according to ...
The Root

Why Ray Nagin, Flaws and All, Was The Man New Orleans Needed To Combat Hurricane Katrina

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and there is plenty of blame to go around about what happened. Poverty is partly why over 1,000 people died. And Kanye West was right ...
NPR

Grand Jury Indicts Ray Nagin On Corruption Charges

Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has been indicted on 21 counts of bribery and other corruption charges by a federal grand jury. When he became the city's mayor in 2002, Nagin, a former cable TV ...
Los Angeles Times

C. Ray Nagin, former New Orleans mayor, sentenced to 10 years in prison

Former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who portrayed himself as a straight-talking anti-politician determined to clean up the city’s notoriously corrupt culture, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in ...