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| Silver stories | | 10-4. New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina | | Mario Tama (USA) Getty Images | |
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A boy runs during a memorial birthday party for 12-year-old Keith Franklin,
who was accidentally shot and killed by a 13-year-old friend less than three
weeks ago, August
25, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The party also honored
Keith's surviving twin brother Kent who turned 13 today. Neighbors think the
boys found the loaded revolver in one of the project's many uninhabited
units. Before Hurricane Katrina, B.W. Cooper held about 1,000 families and
was the city's largest housing project, but it is now mostly empty. Thousands of
public housing residents in New Orleans have been unable to return to their
apartments because they haven't been re-opened. The U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development plans to tear down B.W. Cooper and other major New Orleans
housing projects and replace them with mixed income
developments. | |
