Trial to open for owners of nursing home (The Charlotte Obs


The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died amid flash flooding during Hurricane Katrina are set to stand trial on Monday on negligent homicide charges. A torrent of water poured through ruptured levees, filling the one-story St. Rita's Nursing Home almost to the ceiling in about 20 minutes after the storm roared ashore on Aug. 29, 2005. Salvador and Mabel Mangano are the only individuals ...

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