Paper Finds Missing Writer

The New Orleans Times-Picayune has located a veteran reporter who was last heard from the day before Hurricane Katrina struck the region on Aug. 29.

Rising water had forced the newspaper to abandon its offices Aug. 30 but it returned to print a few days later at a new location with the help of a neighboring newspaper.

The paper had its last contact with Leslie Williams as he was en route to the Mississippi coast to report on a hurricane shelter.

Editor Jim Amoss confirmed that Williams had checked in with the newspaper and was carrying out his assignment under "hellacious conditions."

No further details were available.