Gregory McRae is a former New Orleans police officer on trial in federal court for incinerating a New Orleans man's body in a Chevrolet Malibu the Friday after Hurricane Katrina. Brett Duke / The ...

A federal appeals court Tuesday ordered a new sentencing hearing for New Orleans Police officer Gregory McRae, the lone officer serving prison time in the death of Henry Glover, an Algiers man who was ...

UPDATE: A federal judge has reduced the sentence of a former New Orleans police officer involved in the death of Henry Glover after Hurricane Katrina. Gregory McRae’s 17-year prison sentence was cut ...

A New Orleans police officer recently admitted in federal court to setting a man’s body on fire following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 after another policeman shot and killed him. According to the ...

NEW ORLEANS – The chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina offers no excuse for the actions of five current or former police officers being tried in the fatal police shooting of a man whose burned body ...

A federal judge Monday refused to order a new trial for Gregory McRae, the former New Orleans police officer who set Henry Glover’s body ablaze in the lawless aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The ...

Gregory McRae, a former New Orleans police officer shown in this 2011 photo, lost his bid June 2, 2014, for a new trial in the burning of Henry Glover, an Algiers resident shot by a different officer ...

A former New Orleans police officer is about to learn whether he will get time cut from his 17-year prison sentence over the burning of a car with a shooting victim's body in it in the days after ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Former New Orleans police officer Gregory McRae stood before U.S. District Judge Lance Africk in an orange prison jump suit as the judge cut his 17 year jail sentence to 11 years and ...

A judge has shaved more than five years from the 17-year sentence of an ex-police officer who burned a shooting victim's body after Hurricane Katrina.Gregory McRae's resentencing was necessary, ...

Counsel: For United States of America, Plaintiff – Appellee: Thomas Evans Chandler, Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Div – Appellate ...

NEW ORLEANS-- The death of a man shot by a police officer in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina was newly classified as a homicide Wednesday by the New Orleans coroner. Coroner Jeffrey Rouse made ...