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Katrina evacuees return home to La. suburb
Sep 18 2005 11:12PM (CT)
METAIRIE, La. (AP) - Thousands of residents began returning to homes in the New Orleans suburbs on Sunday to find debris-strewn yards and homes without power or working sewers.
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Cruise ship shelters Katrina victims
Sep 18 2005 10:59PM (CT)
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A group of Mississippi evacuees moved out of Red Cross shelters Sunday and stepped aboard a cruise ship that will provide them with a temporary home during the region's recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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Tourists evacuate Fla. Keys before storm
Sep 18 2005 10:44PM (CT)
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Thousands of tourists jammed a highway Sunday to escape the lower Florida Keys after Tropical Storm Rita developed over the Bahamas and moved toward the vulnerable, low-lying island chain.
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Agency blames speed for train derailment
Sep 18 2005 10:19PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A commuter train was going almost 60 mph above the speed limit just before it derailed, killing two people and injuring dozens of others, the acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday.
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NYC to receive $6M first responders grant
Sep 18 2005 8:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A regional emergency response system connecting New York City to surrounding areas will be created with a $6 million federal grant, addressing a flaw identified by the Sept. 11 Commission, city officials said Sunday.
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La. officials probe pilfered donations
Sep 18 2005 8:47PM (CT)
KENNER, La. (AP) - Officials are responding to complaints that city workers helped themselves to cases of Gatorade, brand-new clothing and other donated items that were intended for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Man leads police on chase at airport
Sep 18 2005 8:26PM (CT)
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - A man drove his truck across two active runways at the Palm Springs International Airport on Sunday, broke a lock on a plane door and tried to run over an officer before he was arrested.
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Former Ill. gov. goes on trial for fraud
Sep 18 2005 6:51PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan won accolades for clearing the state's death row, but a scandal that destroyed his popularity and made him unelectable in 2002 has now brought him to a critical confrontation.
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Group plans weddings for Katrina evacuees
Sep 18 2005 6:37PM (CT)
GONZALES, La. (AP) - In a little Baptist church tucked among trees near a pasture, a New Orleans couple exchanged wedding vows and, at least for a moment, forgot that they were homeless, penniless and living in a shelter with hundreds of other evacuees.
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New Orleans' hospital system faces crisis
Sep 18 2005 6:17PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - This city's health care facilities have been shattered to an extent unmatched in U.S. history, and its hospital system faces grave challenges as residents begin returning, the vice president of the national hospital accreditation organization said Sunday.
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Katrina kicked off troubled souls' odyssey
Sep 18 2005 5:14PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - They're out there. The shooters, the choppers, the looters, the lines, the foul water and the bodies. Especially the bodies. "But we're in here," says Victor Fruge.
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Nations lament progress to rid poverty
Sep 18 2005 5:12PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Leaders from Africa, Asia and Latin America lamented Sunday that there has been scant progress in meeting the pledges set five years ago to reduce poverty and disease.
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Michael Schiavo to co-write book
Sep 18 2005 2:13PM (CT)
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) - Michael Schiavo is co-writing a book with author Michael Hirsh to tell his side of the end-of-life case that divided much of the country.
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La. Parish recovery will be long, arduous
Sep 18 2005 1:54PM (CT)
VIOLET, La. (AP) - It had been barely three weeks since Brenda Manuel had seen her street, but St. Bernard Parish seemed to have aged decades.
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Katrina a textbook in what not to do
Sep 18 2005 11:39AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Katrina is what classrooms call a teachable moment. Everyone is picking through the mistakes from all levels of government for lessons that will spare more lives and property when disaster visits the country again.
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Clinton Initiative seeks commitments
Sep 18 2005 9:52AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton convinced world and business leaders to commit more than $1.25 billion to address major global problems, ranging from poverty to clean energy.
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Refugees at Houston shelter dwindling
Sep 18 2005 8:10AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - As Hurricane Katrina refugees seeking shelter in Houston's so-called "Reliant City" continued dwindling Saturday, patience was wearing thin among some who are still sleeping on cots under fluorescent lights.
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Rescuers find 76-year-old man in Big Easy
Sep 18 2005 5:09AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Day after day, for more than two weeks, the 76-year-old man sat trapped and alone in his attic, sipping from a dwindling supply of water until it ran out. No food. No way out of a house ringed by foul floodwaters.
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Schwarzenegger endorses union dues measure
Sep 18 2005 4:22AM (CT)
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed a ballot measure requiring public employee unions to get written permission before using member dues money for political purposes.
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Database seeks to lower firefighter deaths
Sep 18 2005 3:54AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - It's a scene that plays out in firehouses every day: Firefighters return from a blaze or rescue call and talk about a close call that could have injured or killed someone. The International Association of Fire Chiefs wants firefighters nationwide to learn from such stories through the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System.
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