Hurricane Gustav

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USA Today, 05.01.09 07:06 UTC

Time, nature threaten La. island and Native American tribe

ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. — There was a time, people here remember, when groves of Cypress trees stretched to the horizon and the underbrush shook with mink and muskrat.

USA Today, 02.01.09 18:30 UTC

Gulf officials discuss hurricane evacuation problems

POPLARVILLE, Miss (AP) — Mississippi officials want to improve emergency traffic flow from Louisiana in Pearl River County and Poplarville, where evacuation traffic from Hurricane Gustav created congestion and confusion.

Times Online World News, 29.12.08 21:01 UTC

Life after Fidel Castro's revolution: a long fall from red dawn to black market

The Cuban press was having a lot of fun at capitalism's expense. The lead story in the eight-page Granma - named after the yacht that brought the young Fidel back to Cuba to begin his revolution in ...

USA Today, 08.12.08 15:02 UTC

Dems pick up House seat in central Ohio

Mary Jo Kilroy, a Franklin County commissioner who came within 1,062 votes of unseating incumbent Republican Deborah Pryce two years ago, will be representing Ohio's 15th Congressional District. On ...

CNN Top Stories, 08.12.08 03:04 UTC

First Vietnamese-American elected to House

(CNN) -- The Louisiana man who Saturday became the first Vietnamese-American elected to the House says he hopes his win will push more young people to become politically active.

BBC World News, 07.12.08 12:30 UTC

Vietnam-born lawyer wins US poll

Voters in the US state of Louisiana have elected the first Vietnamese-American member of Congress.

CNN Top Stories, 07.12.08 04:30 UTC

Beleaguered congressman trails in La. vote

(CNN) -- Nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson, who has been battling scandals and a federal indictment for the past three years, trailed Republican challenger Anh "Joseph" Cao in early returns in one of two hurricane-delayed congressional races in Louisiana.

CNN Top Stories, 06.12.08 16:30 UTC

Louisiana holds 2 congressional elections

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Four weeks and four days after the November 4 elections, it's Election Day all over again in Louisiana.