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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Dinah Novy, the Community Emergency Response Team leader of District 31 in Ogden, talks to Dave Petersen on Thursday about water safety on the Ogden River along the Ogden River Parkway. River water levels have dropped some but may rise again because of snowmelt, water officials say.

Volunteers urge safety along raging Ogden River

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, June 24, 2011 - 11:44pm

OGDEN -- Dinah Novy, accompanied by her dog, Max, eased the golf cart away from Pioneer Park and slowly drove along a paved path next to the swollen Ogden River. Novy, a member of Ogden's Community Emergency Response Team, spent Thursday making rounds along a section of the Ogden River Parkway as part of a city-sponsored volunteer effort to warn pedestrians of the dangers of the fast-moving water.

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Jury convicts 3 officers in post-Katrina death

Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 7:13pm

NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury on Thursday convicted three current or former New Orleans police officers but acquitted two others in the death of a man during Hurricane Katrina’s chaotic aftermath.

The jury of seven women and five men on convicted former officer David Warren of manslaughter in the shooting death of 31-year-old Henry Glover outside a strip mall on Sept. 2, 2005.

The jury also convicted Officer Gregory McRae of burning Glover’s body in a car. Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann was acquitted of that charge.

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New Orleans police officer Gregory McRae, who is charged with burning the body 31 year old Henry Glover and assaulting people trying to help Glover, after he was allegedly fatally shot by police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, leaves Federal Court in New Orleans, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010.

Officer says he burned body after Katrina

Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 11:27am

NEW ORLEANS -- A New Orleans police officer on trial for burning the body of a man who was fatally shot by a different officer testified Monday that he set the fire because he didn't want to let another corpse rot in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.

"I was exposed to so much death, so many bodies," said Officer Gregory McRae, one of two officers charged with burning the body of 31-year-old Henry Glover in the back seat of a car on Sept. 2, 2005.

McRae said nobody ordered him to torch the car or Glover's body, and he denied setting the fire to cover up a police shooting. McRae said his decision was influenced by having seen other bodies floating in the flood waters that inundated New Orleans.

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