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New Orleans largely spared by Hurricane Gustav (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:34:22 +0800

This aerial photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard shows flooding from Hurricane Gustav in the Rigolets, in eastern New Orleans Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. The Rigolets is one of two passes that connect Lake Pontchartrain with the Gulf of Mexico and a key conduit of storm surge into the New Orleans area. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)AP - New Orleans evacuees scattered across the country were anxious to return home after their city was largely spared by Hurricane Gustav, but Mayor Ray Nagin warned they may have to wait in shelters and motels a few days longer.


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Gustav evacuees wait for OK, buses to return home (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:45:09 +0800

Evacuee Bill Mullins sleeps with his 3-month-old son Harley snuggled on his chest at a shelter Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 in Lufkin, Texas. Mullins and his family left Woodville, Texas to avoid Hurricane Gustav. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Hurricane Gustav didn't barrel ashore as the devastating terror everyone feared, leaving some of the 2 million people who evacuated second-guessing their decision to flee.


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Emergency officials credit Gustav evacuation (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:41:08 +0800

Richard Shaw pushes fallen trees with his front end loader in his neighborhood in Houma, Louisiana that was hit as Hurricane Gustav passes through, September 1, 2008. REUTERS/ Mark WallheiserAP - Federal emergency management officials expressed cautious optimism Monday that preparation efforts for Hurricane Gustav helped avert the casualties seen in Hurricane Katrina three years ago.


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Gustav no Katrina, but exposes flaws in levees (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:13:21 +0800

Water sloshes over the side of a levee on the Industrial Canal in New Orleans, Louisiana.(AFP/Jim Watson)AP - Waves crashed high against flood walls Monday and New Orleans' rebuilt levee system survived its first hurricane in three years, but Gustav exposed weaknesses the Army Corps of Engineers won't plug any time soon.


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SoCal farmers angry about proposed power line path (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:27:12 +0800

A sign along Highway 78 in San Ysabel, Calif., states the community opposition to a proposal to build giant power transmission lines through the area Monday Aug. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - Growers and ranchers in the southern reaches of California are posing the latest obstacle to the state's push for green power.


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Michigan balloonist survives crash at SC event (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:34:27 +0800

AP - Officials say a Michigan man survived a hot air balloon crash in South Carolina when the balloon's basket got caught in a tree about 10 feet above the ground.

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No chaos, only calm as Gustav passes New Orleans (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:19:21 +0800

From left to right , Joe Caqlderon, Wendy Guerrera, Butch Trivette, and Renee Gilmore have am impromptu party in New Orleans, after Hurricane Gustav passed close to the city Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. The four are near the Industrial Canal levee, where water pushed by winds from the hurricane was crashing and over the flood wall. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Three years ago, corpses lay rotting in the streets outside the Morial Convention Center. It was a scene so chaotic and depraved, even the police dared not venture inside.


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Calif. anti-oil groups strike up with oil company (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:10:49 +0800

Iranian Minister of Petroleum, Gholam-Hossein Nozari at the 19th World Petroleum Congress in Madrid in July. Iran has called for OPEC to discuss quota-busting by some members at its meeting in Vienna on September 9.(AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes)AP - Environmentalists fighting the practice of oil drilling off Southern California will go before a county board next week to advocate for an oil company that wants to do just that.


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Hurricane Gustav slams La.; 1M without power (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:07:34 +0800

A street sign leans over a flooded street near the Industrial Canal as Hurricane Gustav comes in Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Brian Lawdermilk)AP - Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry with 110 mph winds Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of catastrophic flooding brought by Katrina three years ago.


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Is the ride at Coney Island really over this time? (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:13:24 +0800

In this June 19, 2008 file photo, Angelica, a fire eater, performs at Sideshows by the Seashore at Coney Island in New York. In recent years, the redevelopment of Coney Island has been on an endless, roller-coaster ride into the future, amid bickering involving a developer, city officials and ride operators. But now, the owner of Astroland Park threatens to shut down if Thor Equities, which owns the land on which the park sits, doesn't agree to a two-year lease. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)AP - This summer could mark the end of Coney Island's historic Astroland amusement park. But years of back-and-forth bickering am! ong a developer, city officials and ride operators over the park's future leaves residents wondering — is the closure threat real this time?


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Edwin Guthman, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 89 (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:56:57 +0800

In this undated photo released by USC Annenberg showing Edwin O. Guthman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Robert Kennedy's former press secretary. Guthman, who was on the infamous 'enemies list' prepared by aides of President Richard Nixon, has died. He was 89. A family spokesman says Guthman, who suffered from a rare blood disease, died Sunday at his Pacific Palisades home. (AP Photo/USC Annenberg)AP - Edwin O. Guthman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the infamous "enemies list" prepared by aides of President Richard Nixon and who served as press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy, has died at 89.


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Obama condemns Palin rumors (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:46:42 +0800

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a Labor Day rally at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Hall Local 671 in Monroe, Mich., Monday, Sept. 1, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Barack Obama is condemning campaign rumors involving the children of candidates, including Republican vice presidential contender Sarah Palin. He says he will fire any campaign worker that violates his rule.


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Future bright for fortunetelling in Vt. town (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:13:08 +0800

Psychotherapist Jean O'Neal sits with tarot cards and books on feng shui at her office in St. Johnsbury, Vt., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. For more than 40 years, foretunetelling, palm and tarot card reading weren't welcome in this town. But last month, St. Johnsbury revoked its ban, at the urging of O'Neal, who says the ordinance also prohibited feng shui, an ancient Chinese practice of harmonizing one's environment for health and financial benefits. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Behold, the future is being revealed and it looks bright for fortune tellers, clairvoyants, tarot card readers and anyone claiming to contact ! spirits in this corner of northern New England.


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'Thunder' echoes at No. 1 with $14.3M for weekend (AP)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:28:10 +0800

AP - "Tropic Thunder" hauled in $14.3 million to stay on top of the box office as Hollywood's solid summer wound down sleepily, with Hurricane Gustav contributing to a slow Labor Day weekend at theaters.

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