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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - It's hard to get a copy of hurricane editions of The Times-Picayune, which was chased out of New Orleans by flooding two weeks ago. Even the editors complain that they can't get their own newspaper in the temporary newsroom at an office complex in Baton Rouge, 75 miles from New Orleans.
But the paper is still publishing daily and circulating as best it can throughout southeast Louisiana. The daily press run is 60,000, with two eight-page sections printed at The Courier in Houma, 50 miles on the other side of New Orleans. Before Hurricane Katrina struck, average daily circulation was about 260,000 weekdays and 285,000 on Sunday.
Circulation trucks haul the newspaper throughout the region, drivers tossing copies on porches where possible. In Baton Rouge, which has doubled in population with New Orleans evacuees, free papers are left at shopping malls and rescue centers.
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