Howard Witt

Eager to get the aging space shuttle fleet flying again to finish building the International Space Station, NASA officials are pressing ahead with the scheduled launch of the shuttle Discovery...

Home for Chuck Wonycott these days is a cramped metal bunk with a thin foam mattress deep in the bowels of an old merchant marine ship docked at the Port...

Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering...

There were 11,256 bottles of wine in the cellar of Antoine's Restaurant on the morning of Aug. 29 when Hurricane Katrina struck, some of them rare, most of them expensive...

One by one the petitioners stepped forward, some meek, others nervous, each one imploring their powerful leader to solve a vexing problem. And the leader did not disappoint: He smiled,...

First Hurricane Katrina took John Hoffmann Jr.'s home, which flooded, then exploded, and then burned. Next the storm took Hoffmann's job of 23 years washing dishes at Antoine's Restaurant, a...

The maitre d' is dead. He perished at home, along with his son, sometime after the levees broke and the floodwaters rushed in and his tiny house in northern New...

Thousands of residents returned Friday to a city that only vaguely resembled the one they had left weeks earlier. The French Quarter's usual sounds of laughter, horse-drawn carriages on cobbled...

Faster than anyone dared predict only a week ago, New Orleans is emerging from the muck of devastation to announce its grand reopening, featuring the genteel Garden District and, soon...

For the decade prior to joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency, , Director Michael Brown was commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association, a Colorado-based group that organizes breeders and...