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The Gulf Coast waits: Will it be another Katrina? (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:32:21 +0800

A view of New Orleans as the first storm clouds of Hurricane Gustav swept over the city August 31, 2008. Nearly 2 million people fled the Louisiana coast on Sunday as Hurricane Gustav moved within hours of striking land, possibly with a weaker punch than 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina. (Matthew Bigg/Reuters)AP - Hurricane Gustav charged toward the largely deserted coast of Louisiana early Monday morning and seemed destined to make landfall west of a city still recovering three years after Katrina's devastating blow.


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Chicago students to skip first day, lobby for cash (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:02:41 +0800

AP - Maurisha Gaiter didn't raise her two daughters to be honor roll students by letting them skip class.

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FEMA head works to restore agency's image (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:29:23 +0800

Federal Emergency Management Agency Director David Paulison, talks with reporters during a news conference, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, in Washington. Hurricane Gustav is growing into a monster Category 5 storm, the government's disaster relief chief said Saturday.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - David Paulison was having trouble with the little things — an agency phone number, remembering what day it was.


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Burning Man festival nears end in Nevada desert (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:14:52 +0800

'The Man' burns during the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nev., on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Brad Horn)AP - The party is drawing to a close at the annual Burning Man festival on the northern Nevada desert.


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Gustav shutters refineries on Gulf Coast (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:51:09 +0800

Cars line up for gas as a tanker truck driver fills the station underground tanks in Troutdale, Ore., Friday, Aug. 29, 2008.  Retail gas prices swung higher Friday — the first increase in 43 days — as analysts warned that a direct hit on U.S. energy infrastructure by Tropical Storm Gustav could send pump prices hurtling toward $5 a gallon. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - Hurricane Gustav's threat to the Gulf Coast halted about 15 percent of U.S. refining capacity Sunday, though for now prices at the pump have not risen dramatically.


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New Orleans leaders confident police won't bolt (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:59:31 +0800

New Orleans Police Officer Carolyn Dalton talks with a teen who was refusing to evacuate the city with her mother on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008 in New Orleans.  Officers were trying to keep order as residents fled ahead of Hurricane Gustav. Dalton, who stood by her post during Katrina, took her two sons to her mother's house in the days leading up to that storm. This past weekend, she made the journey again, leaving 15-year-old son Lace with a hug and some money, then returning to New Orleans for her 7 a.m. shift. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)AP - More than a week ago, at the first hint Gustav could be a ! threat to New Orleans, police Superintendent Warren Riley issued an unusual order — he gave all the city's 1,485 officers paid time off to get their families to safety.


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8 sickened by chemical exposure at plant in Ill. (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:32:18 +0800

Police officers and firefighters park outside of DePaul Health Center's emergency department during it's lockdown on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, in Bridgeton, Mo. The lockdown was established after three patients contaminated with P-Nitroaniline came into the emergency department for respiratory problems. Seventeen people were exposed and subsequently decontaminated by the fire department. (AP Photo/Kyle Ericson)AP - One of two Missouri hospital emergency rooms reopened Sunday, a day after being shut down under quarantine when eight people sickened by a dangerous chemical's release sought treatment.


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Powerful Gustav leaves Cuba; New Orleans evacuates (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:26:57 +0800

Residents make their way through a street damaged after the Hurricane Gustav hit in  the area Consolacion del Sur, Cuba, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. Cubans returned from shelters to find flooded homes and washed-out roads Sunday, but no deaths were reported after a monstrous Hurricane Gustav roared across the island and into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Cubans returned from shelters to find flooded homes and washed-out roads Sunday, but no deaths were reported after a monstrous Hurricane Gustav roared across the island and into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.


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NAACP board approves contract for new president (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:00:24 +0800

AP - The NAACP's national board of directors has approved a three-year contract for new president Ben Jealous, the youngest leader in the civil rights organization's history.

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Gustav gives Nagin a second change to get it right (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:54:02 +0800

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, center, with other city officials, holds a news conference at City Hall in New Orleans, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. Nagin briefed media on preparations for the possible arrival of Hurricane Gustav, which became a Category 4 storm as it crossed over Cuba. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Ray Nagin's rhetoric was tough — calling Hurricane Gustav "the mother of all storms" — but his demeanor was confident and cool as he ordered the second evacuation of his city in three years.


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New search starts for missing adventurer Fossett (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:14:38 +0800

From left to right, search team members Lew Toulmin, Dick Sale, Deb Atwood and Robert Hyman update maps, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, at a base camp just west of Hawthorne, Nev., displaying exact areas where searchers had been looking over the weekend for famed aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared Labor Day 2007. (AP Photo/Brendan Riley)AP - A year after aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett vanished on a Labor Day solo flight over western Nevada, friends and admirers are waging a new search for some sign of him in an area of rugged mountains.


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Some garment factories scheme to evade monitors (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:19:46 +0800

AP - Like other garment factories in New York, Jin Shun Inc. was a small enterprise on the city's margins, staffed by Chinese-speaking immigrants and tucked away in an industrial corner that few outsiders see.

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Service union vice president steps down amid probe (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:18:17 +0800

AP - The executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union has stepped aside while under investigation for allegations she paid thousands of dollars in union funds to a former boyfriend, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

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Antique plane makes soft landing in tree top (AP)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:32:09 +0800

AP - A 1930s biplane glided to a crash landing in the tops of a stand of trees on Sunday, stranding the pilot and his passenger amid the branches for several hours.

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