Federal grants are set to help propel 10 affordable housing projects in the New Orleans area, but one high-profile project didn’t make the cut: The ambitious renovation of the former ...

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After more than a century and a half, 19 souls taken from 19th-century New Orleans are finally coming home, honored by a city determined to preserve their dignity.

The individuals being honored died at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in 1872, after which their heads were severed and sent to Leipzig University in Germany for research.