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Threatening Storm
New Orleans marks the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and mourns the dead from the storm as another threatening storm approaches the city. Page A7 SPORTSTags: Ceremonies
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Lake Worth: City to decide on labor center
City commissioners on Tuesday are scheduled to consider a proposal to lease part of the city's shuffleboard courts building to serve as a day-laborer resource center, to reduce the number of laborers soliciting work on the street and to provide social...Tags: Lake Worth
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Obama's speech turns on nation's television viewers
Barack Obama's audience for his acceptance speech likely topped 40 million people, and the Democratic gathering that nominated him was a more popular television event than any other political convention in history. More people watched Obama speak from...Tags: NBC, Satellite and Cable Service, Natural Disasters, Television, Movies
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Gustav, A Hurricane Again, Nears Caymans, Cuba
McClatchy NewspapersTropical Storm Gustav is Hurricane Gustav again after the system got bigger and intensified Friday as it rolled toward the Cayman Islands and Cuba. Jamaican officials confirmed four fatalities in that country, and the death toll continued to mount in...Tags: Labor Day, Energy Saving, Natural Disasters, Ceremonies, Charlie Crist
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Gustav strengthens to hurricane
Associated PressNEW ORLEANS — On the same day that residents here marked the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's wrath, another storm strengthened into a hurricane miles away and threatened to hit the Gulf Coast once again. Forecasters at the National...Tags: Regional Authority, George Bush, Meteorological Disasters, Florida, Disasters
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Chicago stars keep shining
Don't tell anyone in New York or Los Angeles, but Chicago is where it's happening when it comes to crime fiction. Of course we've known about it for a long time: Those good folk who gather to ramble at The Outfit blog—Sean Chercover, Barbara D'...Tags: Apartments, Crimes, Michael Kelly, Los Angeles, Reproduction
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Michigan Republicans move on, without Mitt
Associated Press WriterMichigan Republicans embraced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as their nominee for vice president Friday, even though that means state native Mitt Romney didn't get the job. Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain shook up the GOP ticket by making...Tags: Regional Authority, George Bush, Democratic Party, Michigan, Barack Obama
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Mich. reaction to McCain's pick of Palin
Reaction from Michigan to Republican presidential candidate John McCain's selection of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate. ------ "Gov. Palin is a conservative Republican with a track record of reforming government. She will strengthen...Tags: Michigan, Democratic Party, Values, Corporate Crime, Executive Branch
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Memorial service held for toddler in 'cult' murder case
Sun reporterThere was no casket, no bouquets of flowers, no pews filled with people. Instead, there was a small wooden toybox and pictures of a 15-month-old baby drinking his bottle and playing, and the dozen mourners who came to say good-bye to him. "I fought hard...Tags: Cults and Sects, Crimes, Brooklyn (New York City), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Murder
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McCain and Palin: Texts
Spin CycleAfter the jump: Transcripts of the comments of McCain and Palin at the press conference this morning. From CNN, via The Atlantic.......Tags: Energy Resources, Unions, Executive Branch, Natural Resources, Political Candidates
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The Blacksmith's Son: Twenty years after his death, the legend of Enzo Ferrari lives on
MotorTrend MagazineThroughout a long and eventful life, mystery and conjecture followed Enzo Anselmo Ferrari.Throughout a long and eventful life, mystery and conjecture followed Enzo Anselmo Ferrari. He was born in 1898, almost certainly on February 18, but deep... -
Oprah on Obama: I cried my eyelashes off
Oprah Winfrey is leaving Denver with the candidate she wanted, but reportedly without her eyelashes. The talk-show host said she was moved to tears by Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. And those must've been some...Tags: Primaries, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Political Candidates
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