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ALL News - UK NewsResidents, tourists and oil workers fled as Gustav swamped Jamaica, leaving 59 people dead in its wake. Louisiana and Texas put their national guards on standby. Meanwhile, New Orleans kept nervous watch, three years after Katrina's destruction.
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Permanent Link: Gustav Swamps Jamaica, Threatens Gulf
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Groups representing the oil and gas, mining, and manufacturing industries asked a federal judge to ensure that laws protecting polar bears were not used to block projects in Alaska.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is declaring a state of emergency and activating the National Guard in advance of storm Gustav....
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Just three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans confronts a new threat from Gustav and a stark question: Will the partially rebuilt levees hold?...
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The unclaimed bodies of close to 80 victims of Hurricane Katrina have finally been entombed - nearly three years after the storm - by a group of funeral home owners who said they took it upon themselves to inter the remains.
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Permanent Link: Katrina Victims Are Buried, 3 Years After
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A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees has been acquitted of voluntary manslaughter in a first-of-its-kind federal trial.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A block-long covered walkway next to a construction scaffold collapsed on Thursday, trapping and injuring 16 pedestrians, three critically....
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CHICAGO (AP) -- As New Orleans residents warily track another threatening storm, a new report presents the clearest picture yet of deaths from Katrina in Louisiana. Of the nearly 1,000 who died, almost half were 75 or older, according to researchers....
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Permanent Link: New Katrina death tally: Half of victims 75 and up
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NEW YORK (AP) -- It requires enough concrete to build a sidewalk from New York to Miami and enough pipe to reach the top of the Empire State Building 140 times over. Workers carved out enough dirt from the ground to fill more than 100,000 dump trucks....
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Permanent Link: Huge underground water plant takes shape under NYC
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Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a GPS unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn't expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too - to help convict him of killing four family members....
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Permanent Link: Small GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The families of 12 Nepali men killed by Iraqi insurgents have filed a federal lawsuit accusing defense contractor KBR Inc. and a Jordanian subcontractor of human trafficking, saying the men were sent to work in Iraq against their will after being promised jobs in a posh hotel in Jordan....
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 1,440 people appears to be over.
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Kwame Kilpatrick has been a salesman, bargaining to bring improvements to Detroit and prove the struggling city is worth it. But now the mayor will negotiate a more personal deal, one that exchanges a dimming political future for freedom.
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The Air Force says at least three ballistic missile crew members at bases in North Dakota and Montana have been taken off the job while the military investigates allegations ranging from sexual abuse to missing classified components.
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A Brooklyn couple killed last month who left behind a draft of malicious will bequeathing only bitter words for their relatives was hardly in a position to leave anyone anything, The New York Post is reporting.
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Permanent Link: Murdered New York Couple Who Left Behind Bitter Will 'Broke'
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Authorities say three people including a pregnant woman and a 12-year-old girl were killed and two others were critically injured when their car ran into a tree in northeast Los Angeles.
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New York City is asking public school principals to consider giving math tests to kindergartners. The experiment could involve tests as long as 90 minutes and comes amid debate over the growing use of standardized tests nationwide.
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In one of the biggest upsets in tennis history, Ivanovic lost to 188th-ranked Julie Coin of France 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lesbian activist Del Martin died on Wednesday, just two months after marrying her partner of 55 years in one of the first legally recognized California same-sex weddings.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits fell by 10,000 last week, government data on Thursday showed, but remained at elevated levels indicating a weak labor market.
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Permanent Link: Jobless claims touch lower than expected
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