While in office, Mayor Ray Nagin accepted a $50,000 payoff and shipments of free granite from city vendor Frank Fradella, and after leaving City Hall, he became a highly paid consultant to Fradella, ...

Former Mayor Ray Nagin, who was convicted on 20 of 21 federal charges in February, was sentenced this morning to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $84,000 in restitution. The sentence was ...

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 ...

Katrina struck on Aug. 25, 2005, creating a need for a dump accepting vegetation only. That is probably not how you remember it. Maybe you could have sworn that August 29 was the fateful day, and that ...

NEW ORLEANS — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who was convicted on federal bribery, money laundering and other corruption charges in 2014, has completed his 10-year sentence and is asking a ...

In just 12 years, Ray Nagin went from hero to villain in New Orleans. Nagin was first elected as mayor in 2002. A Cox executive with no political experience, he was viewed as an agent of change at ...

NEW ORLEANS — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin took to the pulpit during Sunday services at the Household of Faith Church to deliver his first speech in more than a decade. "I greet you all in the ...

Even before the confetti had been swept away Saturday night, the New Orleans mayoral race was starting to look like it had been just an elaborate, expensive distraction from more pressing matters at ...

Midway into his election night speech, Mayor Ray Nagin reached into his pocket and pulled out a plastic device with a tiny speaker on one side. “I just found something they’re selling for $8.95,” the ...

An urban planner who specialized in disaster recovery, he was brought in to revive the city after the 2005 storm. The task proved larger than one man could handle. By Adam Nossiter Modern technology ...