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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) � Mississippi will soon start rebuilding a section of highway that collapsed during torrential rainfall brought by Hurricane Ida. Two people were killed and nine were injured Aug. 30 as seven vehicles plunged, one after another, into a deep pit that opened up on the dark stretch of Mississippi Highway 26 near

AMELIA, La. (AP) � Ida knocked out power to about 1.1 million customers in Louisiana when it came ashore Aug. 29. Within days, electric officials transformed an empty lot into a bustling “tent city� with enormous, air-conditioned tents for workers, a gravel parking lot for bucket trucks and a station to resupply crews restoring power

NEW ORLEANS (AP) � The wrecked boats, docks and processing equipment left by Hurricane Ida has some wondering what the future holds for Louisiana’s seafood industry. The state’s oyster farmers, crabbers, shrimpers and anglers are nothing if not adaptable. They’ve fought off a devastating oil spill, floods, changing markets and other hurricanes to stay in

NEW ORLEANS (AP) � A lawsuit alleges that Louisiana’s largest electric utility used a “bubble gum and super glue� approach to maintenance and construction that left customers sweltering in the dark after Hurricane Ida. The lawsuit was filed Saturday against Entergy Louisiana and Entergy New Orleans, which provide power to 1.1 million customers in the

SLIDELL, La. (AP) � Louisiana authorities have captured and killed an alligator believed to have attacked a man who went missing in flood waters from Hurricane Ida. The wife of 71-year-old Timothy Satterlee saw him attacked by an alligator outside their home on Aug. 30, the day after Ida struck Louisiana. She paddled a small