Pride (in the name of love) By Melanie Lidman | April 6, 2006 Thornton Drive in Chalmette, La., looks a lot like any suburban street in my hometown of Lexington. In the Thornton Drive of my imagination, I can see children playing soccer in the yard, neighbors walking their dog, perhaps someone mowing the lawn. [...]

Kids trade spring break for a chance to help By Anne Rochell Konigsmark, USA TODAYMERAUX, La. — Jaclyn Unruh pulls off her face mask and sums up her spring break destination in one word: “Eerie.””It just seems like a ghost town,” she says of this St. Bernard Parish neighborhood, where floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina engulfed [...]