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  • California activist found slain in New Orleans (AP) - AP - New Orleans police said Thursday they are investigating the slaying of a 25-year-old San Francisco community activist found shot in the head in a hurricane-battered part of the city.
  • Fraudsters prosecuted in Hurricane Katrina's wake (AFP) -

    Teddy bear stuffed toys are place on a bed by Hurricane Katrina evacuees at the civil center in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 2005. The US Justice Department has charged 907 people with cheating the federal government out of relief funds or other assistance following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, officials announced Thursday.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)AFP - The US Justice Department has charged 907 people with cheating the federal government out of relief funds or other assistance following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, officials announced Thursday.


  • Woman charged with fraud for 13 hurricane claims (AP) - AP - A woman who filed at least 13 claims for federal assistance after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ike has been charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, prosecutors said Tuesday.
  • Feds to investigate post-Katrina bridge shootings (AP) -

    Teddy bear stuffed toys are place on a bed by Hurricane Katrina evacuees at the civil center in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 2005. The US Justice Department has charged 907 people with cheating the federal government out of relief funds or other assistance following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, officials announced Thursday.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)AP - Federal officials will investigate the New Orleans police officers involved in fatal shootings that happened on a city bridge after Hurricane Katrina, authorities said Tuesday.


  • Dozens of Miss. cottages condemned after Gustav (AP) -

    Donnell Landtroop poses for a picture inside her state-supplied Mississippi cottage that was damaged by Hurricane Gustav and has been condemned in Bay St. Louis, Miss. Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has condemned more than 230 of the cottages, leaving Landtroop and other coastal Mississippi residents scrambling to find shelter in a storm-scarred region where affordable housing is scarce. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - In Donnell Landtroop's state-supplied cottage, mold grows on the walls and dried mud coats the floor, the foul remnants of Gustav, the second hurricane in three years to leave her family homeless.


  • US-USREPORT Summary (Reuters) - Reuters - Hard hats, transit workers, machinists, teachers and other labor unionists railed against the U.S. government's proposed bailout of Wall Street on Thursday in a protest steps from the New York Stock Exchange. Several hundred protesters yelled their enthusiastic support as union leaders decried a proposed $700 billion plan aimed at reinvigorating the credit markets by relieving financial institutions of distressed debt.
  • U.S. gasoline inventories lowest since 1967 (Reuters) -

    Power lines knocked down by Hurricane Ike are seen in front of an oil refinery in Pasadena, Texas, September 15, 2008. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. gasoline inventories shrunk to the lowest level since 1967 after Hurricanes Gustav and Ike shut Gulf Coast oil refineries, but the Bush administration said there is still no need to ask for emergency fuel supplies from European allies.


  • U.S. gasoline inventories lowest since 1967: EIA (Reuters) - Reuters - U.S. gasoline inventories have dropped to their lowest level since 1967 after Hurricanes Gustav and Ike shut Gulf Coast oil refineries, causing some supply shortages at service stations, the Energy Information Administration said Wednesday.
  • Gulf Coast officials ask Congress for money (AP) -

    This photo released by Lamar University shows Jim Westgate, a trained paleontologist and a research associate with the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the University of Texas Memorial Museum, posing in Beaumont,Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, with a fossil tooth of a mammoth that he found in Caplen, Texas, in the debris from Hurricane Ike. Westgate believes the fossil discovered in the Ike-damaged debris is from a Columbian mammoth. (AP Photo/Lamar University, Brian Sattler)AP - Gulf Coast officials asked lawmakers on Tuesday for fast federal money for hurricane recovery and a minimum of bureaucratic red tape.


  • Some 640,000 Texans still without power (Reuters) -

    Amirali Merchant (R) sells cleaning supplies to a customer as he operates his variety store without electricity on the north side of Houston as the area recovers following Hurricane Ike September 17, 2008. (Richard Carson/Reuters)Reuters - More than 640,000 customers in Texas remained without power on Tuesday, 10 days after Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast before cutting a destructive path all the way to New York.


  • Some 820,000 Texas customers still without power (Reuters) -

    A dog stands guard at a home, damaged by a fallen tree, in the Heights historic district neighborhood near downtown Houston September 15, 2008. (Richard Carson/Reuters)Reuters - Some 820,000 customers in Texas remained without power on Monday, nine days after Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast before cutting a destructive path all the way to New York.


  • More to come in busy Atlantic hurricane season (Reuters) -

    A motorist drives a car along a street in Houma, Louisiana, as Hurricane Gustav passes through, September 1, 2008. (Mark Wallheiser/Reuters)Reuters - The 10 tropical storms and hurricanes that ripped through the Atlantic and Caribbean during this busy hurricane season savaged Haiti, Cuba and the U.S. Gulf coast, and conditions are now ripe for more.


  • Ultra-Orthodox party emerging as Israel kingmaker (AP) -

    Israeli Foreign Minister and newly elected Kadima party chair Tzipi Livni gives a statement to the press outside her house in Tel Aviv, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni declared victory Thursday in a surprisingly tight race to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as head of Israel's governing party, and said she would immediately turn to the task of trying to cobble together a new government. (AP Photo/Alon Ron)AP - An ultra-Orthodox Jewish party run by an octogenarian rabbi who has said Hurricane Katrina was divine punishment emerged Thursday as the kingmaker in forming the next Israeli government.


  • Johnson space center to reopen next week: NASA (AFP) -

    A NASA employee enters the Project Management building at the Johnson Space Center in Houston,Texas in 2003. The Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, which was shut down as Hurricane Ike barreled toward the US Gulf Coast, will reopen next week, US space officials said Thursday.(AFP/File/James Nielsen)AFP - The Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, which was shut down as Hurricane Ike barreled toward the US Gulf Coast, will reopen next week, US space officials said Thursday.


  • Ike survivors, officals give FEMA mixed reviews (AP) -

    Flanked by Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, left, and Houston Mayor Bill White, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff speaks at a press conference about Hurricane Ike recovery efforts Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Hurricane Katrina made them worthless feds in windbreakers, a four-letter agency for which some couldn't find enough four-letter words. And in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, FEMA is again the easy target for displaced residents and frustrated local authorities.


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