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Blanco: Katrina will teach critical lessons
Sep 10 2005 11:34PM (CT)
SLIDELL, La. (AP) - The lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina will lead to huge improvements in the nation's emergency planning, Louisiana's governor said Saturday as she visited this flood-ravaged city across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans.
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FEMA has paid $669M to Katrina victims
Sep 10 2005 11:29PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has paid $669 million nationwide to families affected by Hurricane Katrina, officials announced Saturday.
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Ophelia strengthens, may hit Southeast
Sep 10 2005 10:38PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A hurricane watch was posted Saturday for the Southeast coast as Ophelia strengthened into a hurricane once again, and meteorologists said its meandering course could take a sharp turn toward land.
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Girl sees dead father in police DUI photos
Sep 10 2005 10:06PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A 12-year-old girl saw her father's remains in a gruesome photograph shown during a presentation by police warning teenagers about the dangers of drunken driving.
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Northwest jet makes emergency landing
Sep 10 2005 10:02PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Northwest Airlines plane made an emergency landing Saturday because of mechanical trouble with an engine and the landing gear.
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Trial begins in case of hunters' shootings
Sep 10 2005 9:35PM (CT)
HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) - A deer hunter went on a rampage last fall, killing six hunters and wounding two others, after he felt insulted, a prosecutor told jurors Saturday. The defense said Chai Soua Vang felt physically threatened by a group of white hunters who tormented him with racial slurs.
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Souvenirs from Ambassador Hotel auctioned
Sep 10 2005 9:28PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hundreds of pieces of memorabilia from a hotel where Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 were auctioned off Saturday as officials prepared to demolish most of the building to make room for new schools.
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Families rally against 9/11 museum
Sep 10 2005 9:16PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Holding up pictures of their loved ones and signs that read "Preserve Sacred Ground," more than 500 relatives of Sept. 11 victims rallied at the World Trade Center site Saturday against a proposed museum.
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Lawyer is fired after talking about Rove
Sep 10 2005 9:15PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A lawyer with the Texas secretary of state was fired after she spoke to a reporter about presidential adviser Karl Rove's eligibility to vote in the state.
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Search broadens for bodies in New Orleans
Sep 10 2005 9:12PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Cadaver dogs and boatloads of forensic workers fanned out Saturday across New Orleans to collect the corpses left behind by Hurricane Katrina. Cleanup crews towed away abandoned cars and even began readying a hotel for reopening.
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Cheney visits hurricane evacuee sites
Sep 10 2005 8:59PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney toured Hurricane Katrina shelter operations in Texas' capital Saturday, praising the state's efforts to assist evacuees from the Gulf Coast.
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Smell of death eventually goes away
Sep 10 2005 8:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - On the streets, it blends in with all the other smells _ the rotting garbage, the feces, the gasoline, the urine. It is only later, when you awake in the middle of the night, drenched in your own sweat, that it stands out, clinging to the membranes and hairs of your nostrils _ heavy, vaguely sweet, worming its way into your brain.
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Chicago lifts self-imposed hiring freeze
Sep 10 2005 7:32PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Richard Daley's administration is lifting its self-imposed hiring freeze and accepting a federal monitor's recommendations for change, including adding a requirement that city officials swear under penalty of perjury that hirings aren't based on politics.
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Biloxi port eases back into business
Sep 10 2005 7:27PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - The harbor showed signs of life Saturday as the Coast Guard allowed limited commercial traffic for the first time since Hurricane Katrina.
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Sacramento mosque chief complains on probe
Sep 10 2005 7:19PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The FBI conducted extensive surveillance of two mosques for months, monitoring them with closed circuit television and using two undercover agents, raising complaints from the mosques' leader.
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Howard Hughes confidant Jack Real dies
Sep 10 2005 6:47PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Aviation pioneer Jack Real, who helped develop the Apache helicopter and authored a book on his friendship with reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, has died. He was 90.
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Black college enrollment falls in Florida
Sep 10 2005 6:32PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - New figures show fewer black students are attending Florida universities, providing ammunition for critics of Gov. Jeb Bush's 5-year-old policy that excludes race in admissions decisions.
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Charges tossed vs. Oregon Islamic charity
Sep 10 2005 6:25PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed criminal charges against the U.S. branch of a defunct Islamic charity that was accused of helping al-Qaida, but prosecutors said new charges are possible.
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Gay-marriage opposition split in Calif.
Sep 10 2005 5:26PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Despite their state's history of promoting gay rights, Californians have been split on the subject of same-sex marriage _ a contrast that's expected to become even more pronounced because of two overlapping voter initiatives. Fearing that courts eventually will support the rights of gay couples to marry, opponents want voters to amend the state Constitution to allow only heterosexual unions.
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Signs of life appearing in New Orleans
Sep 10 2005 4:50PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A woman waters her mint plants outside her house. A man rides his bicycle on a levee. A newspaper truck lumbers down the road, the passenger handing out papers. In this battered, flooded city, a few signs of normalcy have flickered defiantly in recent days.
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HHS secretary visits Texas shelter
Sep 10 2005 4:25PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt toured a shelter for Hurricane Katrina victims Saturday and said his agency has established a special "evacuee" status to improve their access to benefits.
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FEMA: $669M has been paid to victims
Sep 10 2005 4:10PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has paid out $669 million nationwide to families affected by Hurricane Katrina, officials announced Saturday.
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Miss. base needs $500M for Katrina repairs
Sep 10 2005 2:12PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Keesler Air Force Base, a major training and medical center for the military, needs $500 million in repairs to recover from Hurricane Katrina, a commander said Saturday.
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Newspaper sues police seeking files
Sep 10 2005 1:55PM (CT)
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - The Athens Banner-Herald has sued the county police department, claiming that officers have violated the state's open records laws by refusing to release documents related to the unsolved slayings of two University of Georgia students.
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Student sees dead father in photo display
Sep 10 2005 1:54PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A 12-year-old student saw her father's remains in a gruesome photograph of a drunken-driving crash during a police presentation on the dangers of mixing alcohol and operating a motor vehicle.
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Brown sent candid e-mail to family
Sep 10 2005 1:34PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown sent a candid e-mail to family and friends this week as he was becoming the center of criticism of the handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
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New York cops, firefighters help in N.O.
Sep 10 2005 1:04PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the middle of a shattered neighborhood, stepping around glittering shards of glass, breathing the unavoidable stench of death, Lt. Bill Butler surveyed what was left of the city and went to work.
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Ill. town understands New Orleans plight
Sep 10 2005 12:45PM (CT)
VALMEYER, Ill. (AP) - Donna Mueller has seen the images of Hurricane Katrina's displaced wading helplessly through the flooded ruins of New Orleans. More than most observers, she appreciates the depths of their despair.
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Katrina evacuees wonder what's next
Sep 10 2005 9:20AM (CT)
DAYTON, Texas (AP) - Dennis Williams feared Hurricane Katrina, her fierce winds and the floodwaters that wrecked his home in New Orleans. He fled the devastated city with his wife and their four children and was thankful to be alive.
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La. to spray to stop spread of mosquitos
Sep 10 2005 8:07AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - State health officials said Friday they will begin a spraying program to curb the hatching and spread of mosquitos and flies in the stagnant flood waters left behind in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
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Two New Orleans couples marry in shelter
Sep 10 2005 7:51AM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Leo Tate never took his eyes off his bride, Annie Lee. Beside them, Donna Mathis cried as she said her vows to James Nelson Jr.
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9/11 rescuers receive posthumous medals
Sep 10 2005 6:55AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush honored 442 firefighters, police officers, and rescuers who died Sept. 11, awarding posthumous Medals of Valor to their families at a White House ceremony Friday.
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Bear attack survivor saved his daughter
Sep 10 2005 6:53AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Even as Johan Otter felt the grizzly tear at his scalp, he said his greatest concern was for his 18-year-old daughter. The two were hiking last month in Glacier National Park in Montana when a bear attacked him to protect her cubs.
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Bush administration wins Padilla appeal
Sep 10 2005 6:51AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - In a victory for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that the government can continue to hold indefinitely an American accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb."
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Guard stretched between Katrina, wars
Sep 10 2005 6:24AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Guard is stretched so thin by simultaneous assignments in Iraq and the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast that leaders in statehouses and Congress say it is time to reconsider how the force is used.
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Candidate hopes name will aid election bid
Sep 10 2005 5:25AM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Ophelia Ford has little experience as a candidate, but the weight of her family name may send her to the Tennessee Senate _ to replace a brother charged in the state's biggest corruption investigation in more than a decade.
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Judge rules vs. U.S. in Patriot Act case
Sep 10 2005 5:23AM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A federal judge has lifted a gag order that shielded the identity of librarians who received an FBI demand for records about library patrons under the Patriot Act.
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Registered sex offenders among evacuees
Sep 10 2005 3:58AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Although nearly 4,500 registered sex offenders lived in the 14 parishes hit by Hurricane Katrina, the Department of Corrections is most worried about fewer than 300 _ those who ordinarily check in at parole offices closed by the storm.
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Couple plead guilty in Wendy's finger case
Sep 10 2005 3:39AM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A Nevada couple pleaded guilty to charges that they planted a human finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili in a scheme to extort money from the restaurant chain.
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Illegal immigrants in La. get no assurances
Sep 10 2005 2:16AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Department of Homeland Security has stopped short of reassuring illegal immigrants victimized by Hurricane Katrina that they can seek help from relief agencies without fear of arrest _ a promise the federal government made after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Many evacuees seek aid from black churches
Sep 10 2005 1:34AM (CT)
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - A local black church quickly raises an average of $85 from each of its 70 members to feed hungry hurricane evacuees. Across town, a black church pastor takes 10 families into his home. Another black church turns its sanctuary into a warehouse packed with donated clothes, toiletries and hope.
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