CNN Site Map for Section US (Galleries) for August - 2015
2015-08-30Three hurricanes are spinning in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean. This image shows the water vapor. This is the first time there have been three active hurricanes in the eastern or central Pacific this season, according to NASA. From left the storms
2015-08-28Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III was born November 19, 1938, in Cincinnati. Turner, the media mogul who founded CNN and Turner Broadcasting System, celebrated his 76th birthday in November.
2015-08-27Reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward of WDBJ-TV were fatally shot during a live interview, Wednesday, August 26, in Moneta, Virginia. Authorities identified the suspect as fellow journalist Vester Lee Flanagan II, who appeared on WDBJ-TV as Bryc
2015-08-26WDBJ reporter Alison Parker, left, was interviewing Vicki Gardner, a chamber of commerce executive, in Franklin County, Virginia, Wednesday morning. Moments later, on live TV, gunshots were fired, killing Parker and cameraman Adam Ward.
2015-08-25CNN's Anderson Cooper, covering Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, reports on seeing a body on top of a car a week after the storm.
2015-08-21Firefighters from Jackson, Mississippi, stand with hands and helmets over their hearts on Thursday, August 20, as they watch a motorcade carrying the bodies of firefighters who were killed a day earlier while fighting a wildfire in Twisp, Washington. Auth
2015-08-21Fires burn on a hill in Livermore, California, on Thursday, August 20. California has been battling numerous wildfires as its historic drought reaches a fourth year.
2015-08-20Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted by the NFL, has told the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes that he is leaving the team. He tweeted Friday, August 14: "The last 12 months have been very difficult for me, to the point
2015-08-20Mardi Gras Indians are African-American revelers who wear costumes inspired by Native American ceremonial dress. Photographer Charles Freger took portraits of them and their elaborate costumes last year.
2015-08-17A man in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward rides a canoe in high water on August 31, 2005. Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. After levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans failed, much of the city was underwater. At least 1
2015-08-17For years, the FBI's most-wanted fugitive -- James "Whitey" Bulger -- and his girlfriend Catherine Greig lived as "Charlie and Carol Gasko" in a palm-tree-lined oceanside apartment near Los Angeles before their capture in 2011. H
2015-08-17Boston has been called "the Hub of the Universe," and though it isn't at the center of American life the way it was when it received the nickname in the 1800s, it's still a place many American notables have called home ... though, in s
2015-08-16An EPA worker takes a water reading in the Animas River near Durango, Colorado, on Friday, August 14. The river reopened for recreational use Friday afternoon in La Plata County, Colorado, where an EPA crew polluted the waterway with mine waste on August
2015-08-14Hurricane Katrina's storm surge -- up to 18-feet high -- destroyed homes in Long Beach, Mississippi. These photos are from the Destiny Oaks neighborhood, where I once lived.
2015-08-14Guards in an upstate New York prison found the cells of convicted murderers Richard Matt, left, and David Sweat empty during an early morning bed check on June 6, 2015. Three weeks later, Matt was shot and killed by police officers near the Canadian borde
2015-08-13Raised in a Cajun household in New Orleans, Johnny Chaillot-Louganis (bottom right) and his seven siblings learned to stick together and watch out for each other. The family, pictured in 1970, suffered a profound loss when the matriarch of the family died
2015-08-12Charity Hospital is one of the United States' oldest hospitals. The New Orleans facility was founded in 1736. At its height, the hospital served more than 100,000 patients a year. When Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005, about 200 patients and doct
2015-08-11Members of a group calling themselves the "Oath Keepers" appear in Ferguson carrying large guns on Monday, August 10, one day after a police confrontation led to a protester being shot. Sunday, August 9, marked the one-year anniversary of the de
2015-08-11For Nigerian photographer Ima Mfon, heritage is about pride -- and unity. His series "Nigerian Identity" is a celebration of those who share that bond with him.
2015-08-08Family and friends gather on Friday, August 7 in Seneca, South Carolina, to remember the life of the Zachary Hammond, who was shot to death by a police officer on July 26.
2015-08-07NASCAR driver Tony Stewart looks on in the garage area during practice for a race in Watkins Glen, New York, on Friday, August 8. Stewart is a three-time champion in NASCAR's top division.
2015-08-06Jonathan T. Blunk, 26, served for five years in the U.S. Navy. He died shielding a friend from the gunfire inside the theater.
2015-08-06Protesters march in Ferguson, Missouri, on Thursday, August 21 2014. The St. Louis suburb saw turmoil after a white police officer, Darren Wilson, fatally shot an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, on August 9, 2014. Some protesters and law enforcemen
2015-08-06Michael Brown's casket arrives at St. Peter's Cemetery on Monday, August 25, 2014 for his funeral. Brown, 18, was shot and killed by police Officer Darren Wilson on August 9 in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's death sparked protests in the St. L
2015-08-06Glass shatters as pro wrestler Matt Tremont lands on an opponent during a "death match" held in June 2014 by the IWA Mid-South promotion. No one, of course, actually dies in these predetermined matches, but there is plenty of blood as the perfor
2015-08-05Water spills over a levee along the Inner Harbor Navigational Canal in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on August 30, 2005, in New Orleans. Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. After levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans failed, muc