﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Big Easy news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more Big Easy stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/4308/big-easy.html</link><image><url>http://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gif</url><title>Big Easy news stories on Newser</title><link>http://www.newser.com/</link></image><copyright>2012 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 06:18:44 CDT</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/80211/all-over-new-orleans-saints-fans-go-marching-out.html</guid><title>All Over New Orleans, Saints Fans Go Marching Out</title><dc:creator>Nick McMaster</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=327337&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110331204348' border='0' /&gt;Best of luck to the candidates in tomorrow's New Orleans mayoral primary—they have the attention of just about no one. "The race isn't at the top of anyone's mind," says one candidate, understating the Super Bowl fever sweeping the Big Easy. In ordering the postponement of a trial, one...</description><media:content url="http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=327337&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110331204348" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">People wearing New Orleans Saints jerseys watch as a 15' x 25' "Who Dat" flag is raised in New Orleans, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. The Saints play the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV Sunday in Miami.</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/80211/all-over-new-orleans-saints-fans-go-marching-out.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:20:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/5534/new-orleans-hits-60-of-pre-katrina-population.html</guid><title>New Orleans Hits 60% of Pre-Katrina Population</title><dc:creator>Colleen Barry</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=18078&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401033340' border='0' /&gt;The population of New Orleans has rebounded to 60% of its pre-Katrina level nearly two years after the storm, the AP reports, based on the lastest survey. The city had 273,600 residents last month, up 50,200 from a year ago; 455,000 called the Big Easy home in...</description><media:content url="http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=18078&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401033340" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">Workers with the Unified Recover Group demolish a home in Chalmette, La., Wednesday, July 11, 2007. Contractors hired to clean up after Hurricane Katrina are fuming over delays in getting paid by FEMA, and some fear the red tape will discourage companies from bidding on the big rebuilding projects that lie ahead for New Orleans. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/5534/new-orleans-hits-60-of-pre-katrina-population.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:55:00 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/1088/new-fad-in-new-orleans-guns.html</guid><title>New Fad in New Orleans: Guns</title><dc:creator>Peter Fearon</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=2142&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401035548' border='0' /&gt;Violent crime is storming post-Katrina New Orleans with almost the force of the 2005 hurricane, Time reports. The city has America's highest murder rate, and weapons sales are skyrocketing as citizens take to arming themselves. "They're not gun aficionados," a gun shop owner says of the recent surge in business....</description><media:content url="http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=2142&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401035548" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain"> Vivian Westerman stands in a doorway of her home holding her new .38 revolver in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Sixty-four-year-old Vivian Westerman rode out Hurricane Katrina in her 19th-century house. So terrible was the experience that she wanted two things before the 2006 season arrived </media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/1088/new-fad-in-new-orleans-guns.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:09:09 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
