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Bush aides meet with black leaders
Sep 3 2005 11:15PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - President Bush's top advisers met Saturday with black leaders concerned about the administration's slow response to blacks suffering from Hurricane Katrina, while the head of the NAACP said it was not time for "finger-pointing."
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Syracuse diversity comes after much work
Sep 3 2005 11:05PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Nicole Hernandez arrived at Syracuse University recently for freshman orientation, but she already knew the place well. She spent two summers here during high school in a program that gave her college credit, and a program in her New Jersey school district has close ties to the university.
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Pennsylvania allows Sunday beer sales
Sep 3 2005 11:03PM (CT)
CAMP HILL, Pa. (AP) - Enjoying a cold beer is getting a little easier in Pennsylvania this holiday weekend, but only a little. Under new state laws in effect this weekend, Jim Yaple, president of Westy Beer Distributor, is among 800 distributors now allowed for the first time to sell beer by the case on Sundays _ in the afternoon.
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Survivors search for missing loved ones
Sep 3 2005 11:01PM (CT)
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - The only word 1-year-old Leah knew was "Da-da." She lay in a stranger's arms as her mother, Christi Scott, floated away in a hot tub. "I thought, there's no way I'm going to find her," said Scott, who drifted in her makeshift lifeboat atop Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters for 20 minutes before reaching land. "She doesn't know her name. She can't say my name."
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Mississippians' suffering overshadowed
Sep 3 2005 10:49PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi hurricane survivors looked around Saturday and wondered just how long it would take to get food, clean water and shelter. And they were more than angry at the federal government and the national news media.
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New Orleans left to the dead and dying
Sep 3 2005 10:48PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The last bedraggled refugees were rescued from the Superdome on Saturday and the convention center was all but cleared, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care.
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New Orleans couple weds in Miss. shelter
Sep 3 2005 10:37PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Trenise Williams and her fiance were going to be married in New Orleans just hours before Hurricane Katrina unleashed catastrophic damage on the Gulf Coast. They fled the area instead and "with the snap of an eye, I lost everything," she said. The only remnants of the wedding-to-be was a marriage license Williams, 28, tucked into her purse.
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Katrina evacuees distraught over pets
Sep 3 2005 10:29PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs. She pleaded. "I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring," the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday. They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive. Such emotional scenes were repeated perhaps thousands of t
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Eerie Saturday night in the Big Easy
Sep 3 2005 10:19PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The only lights Saturday night on Bourbon Street were the flashing blues of police vehicles on patrol, the headlights of rumbling military trucks and an occasional flashlight or cigarette glow among bedraggled holdout residents.
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Miss. shelter closes as several fall ill
Sep 3 2005 9:52PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Officials closed a shelter Saturday because more than 20 people there fell ill, and doctors believe the patients may have contracted dysentery from tainted water.
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Out of storage, La. farmers dump milk
Sep 3 2005 9:43PM (CT)
LORANGER, La. (AP) - Farmers near the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina are dumping their milk because they've run out of room to store it, even as thousands of people go hungry in the New Orleans area.
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Last 300 refugees leave Superdome
Sep 3 2005 8:31PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The last 300 refugees in the Superdome climbed aboard buses Saturday bound for new temporary shelter, leaving behind a darkened and stinking arena strewn with trash.
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No threat yet from Tropical Storm Maria
Sep 3 2005 7:52PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Maria was gathering strength from warm ocean water but remained over the open Atlantic on Saturday and posed no immediate threat to land.
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Governor: Texas nearing refugee capacity
Sep 3 2005 6:25PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - With more than 220,000 hurricane refugees camped out in Texas and more coming, Gov. Rick Perry warned Saturday that his enormous state was running out of room.
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Katrina a tough political test for Barbour
Sep 3 2005 6:22PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Struggling with what he calls Hurricane Katrina's "nuclear destruction," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour shows the emotional strain of leading a state through a disaster of biblical proportions.
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Final chapter in exodus is bus journey
Sep 3 2005 6:12PM (CT)
ABOARD BUS NUMBER 1025 (AP) - They wait in the baking sun atop mounds of stinking garbage and walk barefoot through filthy pools of water. And they are smiling. Finally, the escape from hell has begun.
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Last 300 refugees leave Superdome
Sep 3 2005 6:02PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The last 300 refugees in the Superdome climbed aboard buses Saturday bound for new temporary shelter, leaving behind a darkened and stinking arena strewn with trash.
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Congress likely to probe Guard response
Sep 3 2005 5:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Another 10,000 National Guard troops are being sent to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, raising their number to about 40,000, but questions linger about the speed with which troops were deployed.
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Carnival sending three ships for refugees
Sep 3 2005 5:11PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Three Carnival Cruise Lines ships have been pressed into service by the government to provide shelter for as many as 7,000 hurricane victims.
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New Orleans opens temp booking facility
Sep 3 2005 5:08PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - State and local officials are trying to piece together a criminal justice system in a region that had descended into anarchy after Hurricane Katrina.
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Hurricane survivors must decide future
Sep 3 2005 2:52PM (CT)
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - He didn't choose to leave New Orleans; Katrina came through and wrecked Jerry Hymel's native city, driving him away. And now he does not know what to do.
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Calif. governor warns of tax increase
Sep 3 2005 2:23PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - With his Proposition 76 spending control plan trailing badly in the polls, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is warning voters he might be forced to reverse his stance and raise taxes if the measure fails in the Nov. 8 special election.
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Child refugees play, while parents fret
Sep 3 2005 2:10PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Thomas Brown is thankful that his family survived Katrina, that his 12-year-old son and his eight nieces and nephews lived to frolic at a shelter, racing toy trucks and sparring with plastic swords.
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Former HUD secretary now leads CityView
Sep 3 2005 1:27PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A quarter-century after he gained national attention as the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city, Henry Cisneros could likely have his pick of high-profile positions.
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Muslim parents gain momentum in schools
Sep 3 2005 12:42PM (CT)
CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. (AP) - Yasmeen Elsamra had a simple request: While her classmates were eating lunch, she wanted to go off by herself for a few moments to pray.
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Ariz. struggles to deal with immigration
Sep 3 2005 12:18PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The cost of dealing with illegal immigration exceeds the emergency $1.5 million Gov. Janet Napolitano agreed to send to Southern Arizona, county officials say.
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New Orleans mayor calm after Bush meeting
Sep 3 2005 10:52AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The cursing had stopped. The tears were gone. Mayor Ray Nagin returned from his meeting with President Bush on Friday a picture of calm, leaning back against a railing in a hotel lobby that for the first time in nearly five days wasn't filled with stranded tourists.
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Houston opens two more refugee centers
Sep 3 2005 9:57AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Texas opened two more giant centers for victims of Hurricane Katrina on Friday after refugees filled Houston's Astrodome to capacity.
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Vets mark 60th anniversary of surrender
Sep 3 2005 9:55AM (CT)
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) - James Starnes will never forget the day World War II officially ended with Japan's formal surrender. He was only 24 on Sept. 2, 1945, when Japanese officials boarded the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay and signed the documents. "It was a tremendous emotional moment," Starnes told some 2,000 veterans, family members and guests who gathered Friday at the Missouri to observe the 60th anniversary of the event. "It was such a relief to know that war was over, that peace had come
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Aruban prosecutors appeal freeing of teens
Sep 3 2005 9:53AM (CT)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Aruban prosecutors appealed court rulings ordering the release Saturday of a Dutch teenager and two friends jailed in the disappearance of an Alabama woman.
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Houston center helps parents find children
Sep 3 2005 9:06AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - In the midst of trying to find her husband and three youngest children, hurricane Katrina survivor Lisa Stewart temporarily lost her three oldest children in the cavernous Astrodome.
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Border has record illegal immigrant deaths
Sep 3 2005 8:57AM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A record 415 people have died trying to cross the border illegally from Mexico in the past 11 months, surpassing the previous high of 383 recorded in fiscal year 2000, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington said Friday.
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Russian envoy pleads not guilty to charges
Sep 3 2005 8:28AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Russian diplomat who chairs a powerful U.N. budget committee pleaded not guilty Friday to charges alleging he conspired to hide hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign companies seeking contracts with the world body.
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Guard sees parallels to Iraq in Louisiana
Sep 3 2005 8:18AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A month ago, this steamy riverfront offered Michael Rogers a much-needed vacation after a year's tour in Iraq. His head was spinning when he returned in his National Guard uniform, unable to shake the similarities to his time on the streets of Baghdad.
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Sewage in floodwaters carries disease
Sep 3 2005 7:07AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sewage and chemicals are mixed into a potentially toxic bathtub soaking New Orleans, posing the threat of disease for residents forced to wade in Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters.
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Vignettes from the aftermath of Katrina
Sep 3 2005 6:34AM (CT)
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) - Leaders of this once-wild cattle town are calling for an apology after the New York Post invoked the community's name to describe post-hurricane New Orleans.
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Waveland residents: Rebuild or move on?
Sep 3 2005 5:30AM (CT)
WAVELAND, Miss. (AP) - Their house stripped down to a concrete slab, Casey and Stella Williams reminisced about The Good Life, the quaint beachside watering hole where they met.
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Hurricane victims wondering what's next
Sep 3 2005 5:02AM (CT)
CHALMETTE, La. (AP) - As Hurricane Katrina roared, 65-year-old Linda Bertoniere escaped her flooded house, climbed a lamppost and clung, waiting for rescue. She was brought to a makeshift shelter and waited for days until a dump truck took her away. Now, sleeping in a dockside warehouse on a pallet of plywood, she waits again, hoping a boat will come.
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Latin America searches for storm victims
Sep 3 2005 3:43AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Latin American nations are trying to locate citizens affected by Katrina, worried illegal immigrants may not seek help for fear of being deported.
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Trapped son: 'People are dying here'
Sep 3 2005 3:37AM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A college student stuck in a flooded New Orleans hospital described desperate conditions in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, telling his father of dozens of dead patients and describing a makeshift morgue in an operating room.
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Ill evacuees breathe easier as help arrives
Sep 3 2005 3:21AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Anona Freeman and her teenage daughter swam through 8-foot-deep floodwaters for several blocks, all the while towing a pair of terrified neighbors from their four-plex who didn't know how to swim.
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Red Cross trains citizens for storm relief
Sep 3 2005 3:18AM (CT)
FARMINGTON, Conn. (AP) - In a room filled with nurses, emergency medical technicians, firefighters, veterans, retirees and recent graduates, Jason Timber has a compelling reason for wanting to volunteer with the Red Cross to help hurricane victims. His 5-year-old daughter, Destiny, may be one of them.
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Correction: UN-Official-Arrest story
Sep 3 2005 1:22AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a Sept. 2 story about a Russian diplomat charged with money laundering, The Associated Press, relying on information from the United Nations, erroneously reported his name. He is Vladimir Kuznetsov, not Vadim Kouznetsov.
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