Grand Jury Clears LSU Professor of Accusations in Katrina Deaths

A grand jury has refused to indict a Louisiana State University doctor who had been accused of deliberately administering lethal injections to four elderly patients in a flooded and sweltering New Orleans hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Anna Maria Pou, 51, a respected associate professor of otorhinolaryngology at the university's Health Sciences Center, said she was at home with her husband when she received word on July 24. "I fell to my knees and thanked God," she

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