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A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk.
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An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody Friday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried...
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An out-of-control van jumped a curb and barreled into bystanders near the entrance to a crowded subway station Friday, killing the driver and hurting seven people,...
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AP, Los Angeles
Three Mexican men held dozens of illegal immigrants in a squalid “drop house” in South Los Angeles, where one woman was raped and others say they were...
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A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring all 24 people aboard.
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I am making a big assumption here – that President George Bush is capable of feeling any sense of embarrassment.
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AP, Detroit
A bitter 80-day United Auto Workers strike against an auto parts maker that has crippled dozens of General Motors Corp. factories could be coming to an end soon with a...
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The Ohio Lottery says a winning Mega Millions ticket has been sold in Ohio.
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Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state’s ban.
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A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring at least 17, including three seriously, an emergency official said.
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AP, Jefferson City
Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that adds new restrictions and requirements for illegal immigrants, the cities in which they live and the...
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AP, Trenton
Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.
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AP, Angels Camp
Emergency officials say a carnival ride has collapsed at a fairgrounds, injuring three people severely.
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AP, Cleveland
The federal government isn’t used to being snubbed when it offers to help local governments.
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AP, Fresno
A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat...
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A New York financier has been sentenced in San Diego to more than eight years in federal prison for laundering bribes for former Congressman Randy “Duke”...
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Police found at least three bodies inside a home Friday night, and authorities were treating the case as possible homicides, an official with the prosecutor’s...
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The investigation into the bombing of the San Diego federal courthouse has led to the arrest of a woman accused of using false identification in an attempt to obtain...
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AP, Bryan
A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday.
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AP, Chicago
An Illinois appellate court ruled Friday that the city of Chicago cannot be held liable for a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people and injured dozens more.
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The state will take over an effort to collect grant money from Hurricane Katrina victims who got too much, citing a lack of confidence in a private contractor’s...
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A former Army Corps of Engineers consultant and a dirt subcontractor were indicted Thursday on bribery charges stemming from an investigation into levee work after...
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Josue Vega was one of thousands of immigrant workers who flocked to New Orleans in 2005 in hopes of finding a rebuilding job in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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The Neville Brothers, who traditionally help close out the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, returned to the big stage Sunday for the first time since...
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AP, New Orleans
The Army Corps of Engineers can be held liable for flood damage caused by a “hurricane highway,” a navigation channel that is believed to have funneled...
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AP, Jackson
A federal judge on Monday dismissed claims of fraud in a key Hurricane Katrina lawsuit that accused State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. of using different engineering...
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AP, Washington
The Senate on Friday supported tax breaks to ailing Rust Belt manufacturers and Gulf Coast residents receiving grants to rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
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AP, New Orleans
A former councilman from a New Orleans suburb pleaded guilty Thursday to seeking kickbacks from a subcontractor doing cleanup work after Hurricane Katrina.
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AP, New Orleans
Imagine that your home was reduced to mold-covered wood framing by Hurricane Katrina.
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Two leading personalities from different fields are together for a great cause, well the former US President Mr. Bill Clinton and actor Brad Pitt joined hands to help...
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It’s good to see President Bill Clinton taking a break from being the “race pimp” for his wife’s presidential campaign, and focusing on something he is actually...
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AP, New Orleans
Two and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, tens of thousands of miserable homeowners are still waiting for their government rebuilding checks, and many complain they...
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AP, New Orleans
Federal officials issued trailers to Hurricane Katrina victims even though some workplace safety tests detected high levels of formaldehyde at government staging areas...
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Former President Clinton highlighted his wife’s support for reforming national flood insurance and for rebuilding wetlands in a town nearly wiped off the map by...
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AP, Pass Christian
Former President Clinton highlighted his wife’s support for reforming national flood insurance and for rebuilding wetlands in a town nearly wiped off the map by...
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AP, New Orleans
A majority of public housing residents dispersed by Hurricane Katrina do not want to return to the old brick buildings they lived in before the storm, according to a...
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In the past six weeks, gas consumption has dropped by 1.1%. That’s the most sustained drop in 16 years, except for the period following Hurricane Katrina,...
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AP, New Orleans
The Army Corps of Engineers is taking much too long to complete a study that could let victims of Hurricane Katrina know their risk of facing another devastating flood,...
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AP, Chalmette
Uriel Little’s name is among those on the granite monument in St. Bernard Parish listing people killed by Hurricane Katrina. The only problem is that Little is...
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