On courts throughout New Orleans, devoted players put their bodies on the line night after night, week after week and year after year. But it’s also a mental game.

Reforming the New Orleans Police Department is a lot like rebuilding a home after Katrina, said Mary Howell, 60, a civil rights attorney in New Orleans for over 30 years.

Four men who pleaded guilty to illegally sneaking into U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office were each sentenced to probation and fines in federal court on Wednesday.

The Department of Justice announced an investigation that is intended to lead to an overhaul of the New Orleans Police Department, which has been plagued by allegations of corruption, brutality and murder.