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Sheri Fink a Finalist for Michael Kelly Award

Sheri Fink is a finalist for the Michael Kelly Award for her reporting on questionable choices made by healthcare professionals at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Two ProPublica Reporters Win IRE Awards

Two ProPublica reporters have won awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors

Algiers Police Shooting Report Altered, Sources Say

Second Ex-Cop Pleads Guilty in New Orleans

New Orleans Coroner Rules Post-Katrina Death ‘Unclassified’

A New Orleans coroner says he can't determine what killed a 79-year-old woman who died at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina. Though the patient had been given lots of morphine, "she had a lot of physiologic reasons to die," the coroner said. The ruling makes it highly unlikely that any charges will be brought in the case.

Judge Strikes Complaint in Libel Suit Against ProPublica

A court ruling concludes that a doctor was not defamed in an article about Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans.

PBS Frontline on Post-Katrina Police Shootings