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U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- The Bush administration's disaster assistance chief promised no repeat of the Hurricane Katrina experience Wednesday, saying "this is a new FEMA" as Washington weighed options to help California wildfire victims. "We're going to make sure this operatio.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 9:57am neoform

Washington Post -- Where the canal wall burst and doomed the Lower Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina, there now stands an imposing concrete monolith. The new flood barrier is taller, wider and, by its shape, harder to topple. But could the rebuilt defenses handle an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 1, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

Washington Post -- As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide. Titled "Echo-Chamber Message" -- a public relations term for talking points des.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 9, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

Washington Post -- Stored in such places as the vacant land near an airfield in Hope, Ark., an industrial park in Cumberland, Md., and a warehouse in Edison, N.J., are the results of one of the federal government's costliest stumbles in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina --.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 3, 2007 @ 12:29am neoform

CNN -- The city of New Orleans filed a $77 billion damage claim against the Army Corps of Engineers Thursday for flooding that inundated the city when levees failed after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Under the Federal Tort Act, Thursday was the last day.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 8:31am neoform

Yahoo News -- In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 29, 2006 @ 2:02pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Seven police officers were indicted Thursday on murder or attempted murder charges in a pair of shootings on a bridge that left two people dead during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 6, 2006 @ 3:29pm mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- One year after Katrina, the government is still squandering tens of millions of dollars in wasted disaster aid, including $17 million in bogus rental payments to people who had already received free trailers and apartments, federal investigators said Wedn.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- More than 500,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes to escape wildfires in California in the biggest US evacuation since Hurricane Katrina. Fierce winds are fanning fast-moving fires that have ravaged land from Santa Barbara to the Mexican.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- But two years after Katrina laid waste to much of the metropolitan area, the rebuilding is slow, stymied by red tape, bureaucratic infighting and what some see as a lack of political leadership. Blakely, who began work in January, more than 16 months a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 18, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

USA Today -- Areas of Louisiana devastated by Hurricane Katrina could remain deserted as the state acquires nearly 19,000 storm-damaged homes in the nation's biggest post-disaster buyout, a USA TODAY analysis shows. The mass of deserted land — derelict homes and.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Sep 8, 2007 @ 1:44pm neoform

CBS News -- The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were acquitted Friday of negligent homicide and cruelty charges for not evacuating the facility as the storm approached. The jury took about four hours to acquit Sal and Mabel.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 16, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

USA Today -- By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAYNew Orleans pediatrician Corey Hebert dreads the rainy weeks when he knows he'll face about 20 sobbing, screaming children in full-blown panic attacks. "They can't be calmed because they're terrified another hurricane is comi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration has shown little progress — and in some cases backtracked — on its pledge to do a better job in awarding contracts to small, Gulf Coast businesses for Hurricane Katrina work, a congressional analysis shows. The review of fed.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 2:51am neoform

FOX News -- The government's repairs to New Orleans' hurricane-damaged levees may put the French Quarter in greater danger than it was before Hurricane Katrina, a weakness planners said couldn't be helped, at least for now. Experts say the stronger levees and floo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 1:13am neoform

FOX News -- Fats Domino took the stage before a sold-out crowd of hundreds in a New Orleans nightclub Saturday, marking the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's first public performance since Hurricane Katrina. Dressed in a snappy white jacket, the 79-year-old New Orlean.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun May 20, 2007 @ 1:45pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday rebuilding New Orleans is an "American obligation" the Bush administration has not met since Hurricane Katrina struck. "If talk, bureaucracy and promises were enough, we would've rebuilt New Orleans three times over.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 16, 2007 @ 9:38am neoform

USA Today -- —The government has fixed most of the problems that undermined its response to Hurricane Katrina, even though an updated federal disaster plan is not completed, Federal Emergency Management Agency chief R. David Paulison told lawmakers Tuesday. At a H.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 9:37am neoform

National Geographic -- Almost a year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers declared that it had restored New Orleans' levees and floodwalls to pre-Hurricane Katrina strength. But the system is actually riddled with flaws, and a storm even weaker than Katrina could breach the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 9:26pm neoform

FOX News -- In the wake of Hurricane Katrina's devastation, the U.S. government failed to take advantage of millions of dollars in foreign aid from its allies, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The U.S. has collected about $126 million and used just $40 million.. Read More