Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana governor during Katrina, dies

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who led Louisiana through Hurricane Katrina as her state’s first elected female governor, has died.
The office of Gov. John Bel Edwards confirmed Blanco died Sunday. She was 76.
Blanco had battled a rare eye cancer successfully in 2011, but that later returned and spread to her liver.
Her death came more than a year after the Democrat who served in state government offices for more than two decades announced she was in a “fight