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EMA names Clouse
Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.John Clouse ran facilities in New Orleans for the military personnel who were providing security for the city after Hurricane Katrina. Clouse also did military medical planning in Afghanistan. Later Clouse worked as a consultant, helping medical centers...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Afghanistan
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Obama's 'Katrina moment'
It has been a rough week or so for the Obama administration. From Benghazi to the tapping of reporters' phones to the IRS admitting that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the press is in a frenzy, and many are questioning President...
Tags: John Kerry, Benghazi, White House, Internal Revenue Service, Mitt Romney
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EDITORIAL: Sheriff's office to assist short-handed state police
The Frederick News-Post, Md.The Frederick County Sheriff's Office has agreed in principle to assume some patrol areas currently handled by the Maryland State Police. Due to manpower shortages, MSP is stretched thin statewide. Here in Frederick County, Sheriff Chuck Jenkins has,...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Maryland State Police, Montgomery County (Maryland), Frederick County (Maryland)
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Suspect arrested in connection to Mother's Day shooting that wounded 19 people
ReutersNEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A Mother's Day shooting in New Orleans marred a century-old tradition: The second line, a community parade designed to strengthen pride in hardscrabble neighborhoods, residents said. CNN reports Wed. night state that someone...Tags: Mother's Day, Music, Festive Events, Entertainment, Shootings
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AccuWeather predicts another active hurricane season for U.S. shores
AccuWeather.com is predicting another active Atlantic hurricane season, particularly for the U.S. coastline. While the Pennsylvania-based meteorology company is calling for fewer storms in all, with 16 tropical storms versus 19 in 2012, AccuWeather's...
Tags: Weather, Tropical Weather, Weather Warnings, Natural Disasters, National Weather Service
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Suspect named in New Orleans mass shooting
Police late Monday identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting of about 20 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, saying several people had identified him as the gunman captured by surveillance camera videos. Superintendent...Tags: Mother's Day, Justice System, Shootings, Broken Arm, Mardi Gras
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Mother's Day shooting in New Orleans spoils parade tradition
ReutersBy Mark Guarino NEW ORLEANS, May 14 (Reuters) - A Mother's Day shooting in New Orleans marred a century-old tradition: The second line, a community parade designed to strengthen pride in hardscrabble neighborhoods, residents said. Police are seeking 19-...Tags: Mother's Day, Music, Festive Events, Entertainment, Shootings
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Police ID suspect in New Orleans mass shooting
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting of nearly 20 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, saying several people had identified him as the gunman. Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said...
Tags: Mother's Day, Justice System, Festive Events, Shootings, Broken Arm
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Still adrift after the storm
First Hurricane Katrina took John Hoffmann Jr.'s home, which flooded, then exploded, and then burned. Next the storm took Hoffmann's job of 23 years washing dishes at Antoine's Restaurant, a position that vanished when the heavily damaged New Orleans...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Justice System, Natural Disasters, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Theft
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Brookings Institution, Floods, Natural Disasters, Ku Klux Klan, The Wall Street Journal
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Reopening Night
Scaffolding still surrounds a huge hole in the southeast wall, the staff is a shadow of its former size, only two of 15 sprawling dining rooms are functioning, half the specialty dishes have been lopped off the menu and there was a last-minute scramble to...Tags: Natural Disasters, Mardi Gras, Hurricanes, Lifestyle and Leisure, Human Interest
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Workers' plea: Gimme shelter
Home for Chuck Wonycott these days is a cramped metal bunk with a thin foam mattress deep in the bowels of an old merchant marine ship docked at the Port of New Orleans. His closet is a narrow locker. His dining room is the ship's mess hall. His...Tags: Natural Disasters, Habitat for Humanity International, Music Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Rentals
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