Reuters - Even New Orleans residents who
fared the best in Hurricane Katrina are losing sleep and
worried about the future, a survey presented on Monday showed.
AP - Hoping to speed approval of war funds, House-Senate negotiators were to meet Tuesday evening on legislation to pay for the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and for hurricane relief along the Gulf Coast.
AP - Ryan Kittle and his wife were on the porch of their hurricane-flooded Mississippi home last September when they saw a van draped with the Union Jack make its way through the downed trees.
Reuters - New Orleans opened its first
criminal jury trial in nine months on Monday as the
storm-damaged courts began to clear a backlog that has swelled
to 6,000 cases from 3,500 before Hurricane Katrina.
AP - A gunman fired into a crowded car, killing a 2-year-old girl and wounding two other children whose family had fled New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, police said.
