| By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor
TORNADO'S TOLL: The tragedy of the March 22 tornado deepened this week with the death of a young Arabi woman who used a wheelchair and a ventilator and who was hospitalized after the twister lifted her family's home off its piers. Maria Celeste Burke, 22, who had been fighting muscular dystrophy since she was 5, died from a blood clot at University Medical Center.
ASSET PROTECTION: As Joshua Bruno's New Orleans apartment properties sink further into disrepair, his largest creditor has asked a bankruptcy judge to transfer management of his biggest complex, the 336-unit Oakmont Apartments in Algiers, to a court-appointed trustee. The Federal National Mortgage Association alleges that Bruno has transferred millions of dollars from Oakmont over the past year to other entities he controls.
POWER PLAY: Louisiana's elected utility regulators are hiring an engineering firm to evaluate why so many power poles and wires fall down during storms. “Customers are being asked to pay $4.5 billion to put back up a grid that has been knocked out two years in a row,” Public Service Commissioner Craig Greene said. “We cannot keep asking Louisiana utility customers to pay billions of dollars in storm damage if we don’t build a plan that could mitigate their higher costs.”
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