The city of New Orleans will pay $13.3 million in settlements of lawsuits over deadly police shootings after Hurricane Katrina and a fatal beating just before the 2005 storm, the mayor's office ...

Chester City Council plans to appoint and swear in Katrina Blackwell on Wednesday as the next commissioner of the Chester Police Department, according to a city press release. Blackwell was appointed ...

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"They were terminated due to them abandoning the department prior to the storm," acting superintendent Warren Riley said. "They either left before the hurricane or 10 to 12 days after the storm and we ...

4:31 p.m.: This post has been updated. The prosecution called its final witnesses in the trial of five current and former police officers charged in the post-Katrina killing and cover-up of a New ...

The Chester Police Department in Delaware County appointed its first female commissioner in its history Wednesday night. With the help of her two kids and the mayor, Katrina Blackwell was named the ...

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Katrina Blackwell becomes Chester's first female police commissioner. Blackwell has served with the Chester Police Department for 20 years. Under her interim leadership, the city saw a significant ...