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Payton working to make Metairie camp a home for Saints

4:19 PM Fri, Jul 31, 2009 |
WWL-TV Newsroom

Bradley Handwerger / WWL-TV.com Sports Writer


METAIRIE, La. ― Three years ago when Sean Payton was hired to coach the New Orleans Saints, he moved training camp to Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss.


That very season the Saints made their historic run to the NFC Championship Game.


Now with the national and global economy mired in a deep recession in 2009, the Saints have come home, spending traini...



60 percent of homes in Orleans, St. Bernard rebuilt

4:15 PM Fri, Jul 31, 2009 |
WWL-TV Newsroom

NEW ORLEANS - More signs that the recovery of the New Orleans metro is still continuing, nearly four year since Hurricane Katrina, as a new survey by researchers at the University of New Orleans showed that 61 percent of the homes that were flooded in Orleans Parish and St. Bernard Parish have been renovated or rebuilt - an increase of 14 percent from 2008.


Additionally, 10 percent of homes are in the process of being rebuilt o...