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The Committee for a Better New Orleans hopes the mayor takes a more education-focused approach next year.

Linda Marquardt rode out Hurricane Michael with her husband at their home in Mexico Beach. When their house filled with surging ocean water, they fled upstairs.

Residents of Mexico Beach that stayed during the storm are emerging from the debris with harrowing tales. Others, who evacuated, are coming to grips with the fact that much of their community was destroyed by Hurricane Michael.

New Orleans-based writer Stephen Elliott is suing the creator of a list that names men in media accused of sexual misconduct, including Elliott, according to The New York Times.

Kierston Johnson, 52, was indicted by a New Orleans grand jury in the July 8 shooting death of Jessica May-Orr, 36.

The bar shut down last week as co-owners Karen Brown and Steven Seeber began a civil court battle, The New Orleans Advocate reports.

By all accounts, Sarah Radney was safe inside her grandparents' home when Hurricane Michael roared into southwest Georgia.

The academy was one of four schools in the city that serves students expelled from other schools.

The trip is taking place at the end of October.

The vote is the first denial of its kind from the district after it recently gained that power.