Owners of nursing home where patients drowned are acquitted

Saturday, September 8, 2007

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. -- The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were acquitted Friday of negligent homicide and cruelty charges for not evacuating the facility as the storm approached.

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