| By DREW BROACH | Deputy metro editor |
‘KATRINA BABIES’: Edward Buckles Jr. was 13 when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and completely upended his life. He doesn’t remember much from his family’s months-long evacuation, and now views that blank spot as a response to the trauma of what he witnessed. That’s in part he why made his new documentary film, “Katrina Babies,” of several New Orleans residents reconciling with a childhood marred by Hurricane Katrina. The document debuts today on HBO and HBO Max, and reviewer Mike Scott calls it “a vital document that is at once intimate, honest, engaging and indelible.” FOREIGN RELATIONS: The trip that Mayor LaToya Cantrell and three aides took to France last month cost New Orleans more than $43,000, including airfare totaling more than $18,000 just for the mayor, according to public records obtained by The Times-Picayune. On two of Cantrell's six flight segments, she had a seat in the first-class section. RETRIAL: After Corey Woods was convicted in 2018 of killing three people in a car in west Metairie, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling erased the verdict because it was rendered by a non-unanimous jury. When Woods returned to court last week to be prosecuted again, a new jury deliberated 90 minutes before deciding his fate. Thanks for starting your Wednesday with Morning Headlines. D.B. | 