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Actor Pierce helps tee off rebuilding of flooded golf course 5 Jul 2009 00:30 GMT
... NEWS Breaking Local News from New Orleans, Louisiana Actor Pierce helps tee off rebuilding of flooded ... celebrity to spearhead redevelopment efforts in the Katrina-battered neighborhood, ushered in the start of work ...
George Weeks: Seaway opens gates to calamity 5 Jul 2009 00:30 GMT
... lives of more than one million people. It rescued more than 33,000 people after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2007 -- a rare federal success in that disaster. But, alas, the ...
Discovery reveals the identities of new 'The Colony' reality series cast 4 Jul 2009 20:41 GMT
... a fire and hunt. George returned to New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to provide care in makeshift medical units. - Morgan Hooker, a 23-year-old aerospace engineer from Woodland ...
Picnic, ground-breaking mark start of restoration work at Pontchartrain Park golf course 4 Jul 2009 20:41 GMT
... NEWS Breaking Local News from New Orleans, Louisiana Picnic, ground-breaking mark start of restoration work ... past four years a barren reminder of Hurricane Katrina's devastation. Actor Wendell Pierce, a native of Pontchartrain ...
Ascent Of Money 4 Jul 2009 19:51 GMT
... of modern insurance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. And in New York, financial wizard George Soros explains ... dominate the world. CC. DVS. Underwritten on Alabama Public Television through the support of: ...

The Donald Rumsfeld paradox 4 Jul 2009 18:51 GMT
... to arrive in New Orleans after Hurrican Katrina. Say what you will about local and state ... about local and state government ineptitude in Louisiana. The bottom line was this was a catastrophic ...
We Are A Religious Nation--Or Are We? 4 Jul 2009 16:50 GMT
... and medicine. We are a religious nation: Katrina destroyed New Orleans and the lives of hundreds ... Orleans continues. Reuters recently reported that 2,500 Louisiana residents had to vacate FEMA trailers by May ...
Valerie Plame Wilson's "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House" (Paperback) 4 Jul 2009 15:50 GMT
... responsible for overseeing the investigation as to what wrong with the government�s response to Hurricane Katrina. Today, the Bush Administration and the leading media outlets have so muddled up the Plame ...
Ten Months of Media Scorn for Sarah Palin 4 Jul 2009 15:31 GMT
... "I’m not that convinced that that’s her baby....The daughter — ... "If [Bobby] Jindal had been governor of Louisiana in 2005 [during Hurricane Katrina], everything would have been different, and ...
NYTimes Sneering at Christianity, Patriotism 4 Jul 2009 14:51 GMT
... of expressions of New Age, Wicca, secularism and humanism." In another book, he said Hurricane Katrina was retribution for New Orleans's embrace of sin. Mr. Williams said his statue's essential point was ...

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CENSUS BUREAU: New Orleans was Nation's Fastest-Growing City in 2008 Population Getting Closer to Pre-Katrina Levels; WV Cities Continue to Lose population -- Except for Morgantown, Martinsburg 4 Jul 2009 13:50 GMT
... City in 2008 Population Getting Closer to Pre-Katrina Levels; WV Cities Continue to Lose population -- ... 311,853, up from 210,768 in 2006 following Hurricane Katrina but still below the pre-hurricane level of ...
Seminar focuses on the business of hip-hop, R&B 4 Jul 2009 11:11 GMT
... music updates from New Orleans and South Louisiana Seminar focuses on the business of hip-hop, R&B ... attention only after moving to Los Angeles post-Katrina. According to Wayne, at least five other local ...
Shades of meaning to striped building in 7th Ward 4 Jul 2009 10:51 GMT
... of Bayou Road and North Broad, where entrepreneurs have stimulated a commercial renaissance since Hurricane Katrina. The Fair Grounds race track is just a few blocks away in another direction. THE HOUSES: ...
Yo-ho-ho: A spirited collection of 1,000 bottles of rum finds a home in Broadmoor 4 Jul 2009 10:51 GMT
... a wide mouth. When Steve Remsberg renovated his two-story colonial home in Broadmoor after Hurricane Katrina, he removed some interior walls to create an open floor plan, with kitchen, dining area and ...
Did insurers' testimony show guilt? 4 Jul 2009 10:50 GMT
... WASHINGTON Recent arguments in a Mississippi Supreme Court case offer proof that private ... Beach couple whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina almost four years ago. While USAA covered $350,000 ...
Ground breaking set on N.O. golf course project 4 Jul 2009 10:31 GMT
... two New Orleans' neighborhoods. The sprawling, 18-hole course sustained wind and saltwater damage in Hurricane Katrina. Its overhaul, set to begin nearly four years after Katrina, is considered a critical piece in ...
Cap and trade energy bill is far too costly 4 Jul 2009 07:52 GMT
... If Rep. Cardoza is correct, and the Valley is similar in economic straits as Louisiana after Katrina, then McNerney and Cardoza voted to keep the poor much poorer and the middle class ...
Why Some People Stayed Behind When Hurricane Katrina Struck 4 Jul 2009 07:32 GMT
... Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster in U.S. history, claiming the lives of more than 1,800 victims ...
Louisiana's new witness protection program is badly needed 4 Jul 2009 06:51 GMT
... Louisiana's new witness protection program is badly needed ... as violence rose in the parish after Hurricane Katrina. But such programs are expensive -- and that's why ...
Don't extend Slidell landfill's life 4 Jul 2009 06:51 GMT
... The state's 2007 decision to keep Slidell Landfill open years after Hurricane Katrina was decried by St. Tammany Parish officials and people who live near the towering mound of ...

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Historic school set to be razed 4 Jul 2009 06:51 GMT
... and a play area underneath, shielded from sun and rain. The structure, which escaped Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters, won a national school design award in 1954. It received a three-page spread in ...
Hotel set to replace eyesore in Algiers 4 Jul 2009 06:51 GMT
... McCormick of Park Square LLC, a New Orleans partnership that purchased the site after Hurricane Katrina. "As soon the mayor signs it, I'm sure we'll be moving" toward closing on the sale, ...
Sauce: In the '80s, MJ was raisin awareness (07/02/2009) 4 Jul 2009 06:50 GMT
... May. Chef Alfredo, as he is known, had moved here from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Tickets are $20 for adults, $5 for children under age 12. Music, poetry readings and ...
Chasing after a disaster chaser 4 Jul 2009 06:30 GMT
... go after you," said Steve Irving, a Louisiana attorney who is seeking $600,000 from Slepcevic ... on behalf of two victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In some cases, homeowners make out ... has left a trail of complaints from Mississippi to California, which, despite some of the ...
Lessons in the art of living 4 Jul 2009 06:22 GMT
... attorney, grew up in Jackson and attended Mississippi State and then Ole Miss law school. ... fact was driven home for Conner during Hurricane Katrina, when a huge falling tree decimated his beautiful backyard ...