Two Acquitted Over Katrina Deaths

The owners of a nursing home where 35 people drowned during the Hurricane Katrina disaster have been acquitted of all charges by a Louisiana jury. They faced 35 counts of negligent homicide and 24 counts of cruelty for not evacuating the premises as the storm approached. Patients drowned, some in their beds, as the hurricane swept through the area in August 2005. Hurricane Katrina claimed almost 1700 lives in Louisiana and Mississippi.