The wife of Ray Nagin defended her husband in a letter to Judge Ginger Berrigan, who will announce a sentence for the former New Orleans mayor on Wednesday.Seletha Nagin didn't ask for mercy; she ...

The attorney for convicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has filed paperwork seeking to withdraw from the case.Robert Jenkins has represented Nagin through the years-long trial, but likely won't ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison ...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's memory wasn't so good when it came to questions about private jet travel or his dealings on a Home Depot development plan, a federal agent testified Wednesday as ...

Former Mayor Ray Nagin, now serving a 10-year prison sentence after his conviction last year on corruption charges, is asking an appellate court to vacate the verdict against him on the grounds that ...

Former Mayor Ray Nagin, who was convicted on 20 of 21 federal charges in February, was sentenced this morning to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $84,000 in restitution. The sentence was ...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s first public comment after being indicted last week on 21 counts of corruption was a quote from civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “Injustice anywhere is a ...

The fact that former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was even elected shows how much New Orleans wanted someone different. He came into politics from corporate America with no experience in government.

Ray Nagin rose to American political fame in swift, albeit uncensored, fashion -- as the New Orleans mayor who publicly trashed and pleaded with President George W. Bush to save his city in the ...

Newly re-elected Mayor Ray Nagin immediately began trying to mend ties with political opponents and crucial leaders on Sunday as he looked ahead to another four years to oversee reconstruction of this ...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $84,264 in restitution. Nagin was already forced to forfeit more than $500,000 in May. Nagin, 58, was ...