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A Texas woman who stole a Hurricane Rita travel trailer and resold it has pleaded guilty to theft of government property.
The families of 23 nursing home patients who died in a bus explosion as they fled Hurricane Rita have reached settlements totaling $80 million.
Fred Forsythe finally is out of the FEMA trailer he's called home since Hurricane Rita ripped apart his own place three years ago.
The federal government is asking 625 people in Texas to pay back a total of $1.26 million in recovery aid they shouldn't have received after Hurricane Rita.
Police: After murder attempt, Marshfield man told wife to say she tried to kill herselfMARSHFIELD --- A Marshfield man charged with trying to strangle his wife with a plastic tie strap wanted her to fake an attempt at suicide, police said.
Lessons From Hurricane Rita Not Practiced During Hurricane IkeA new Rice University report released yesterday, exactly six months after Hurricane Ike slammed the Texas Gulf Coast, suggests that people did not practice the lessons learned from Hurricane Rita.
Woman Helping Deputies Ends Up Behind BarsLAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Lake County woman, who was trying to help deputies, found herself behind bars for being an illegal immigrant. Rita Cote hasn't spent more than a day away from her three children, but now she's sitting in a Miami jail.
The Storm Cloud That Hangs over John McCainMcCain voted repeatedly against a Senate investigation into what went wrong during Katrina.
GOP cancels most first day RNC activities - First Read - msnbc.comAre The Republicans Using Gustav As A Polictical Game Changer?
Poisoned MySpace page masquerades as Windows UpdateThe image (below) looks authentic enough to the drunk and uninformed. It is superimposed over the profile of a MySpace user who goes by the name of Rita.
Fotos GQ com Liliana Santos, Marta Leite Castro e Rita Andrade, olha que três!A Revista CGQ decidiu juntar três das mais belas famosas Portuguesas da actualidade! As três grandes despem a camisola é o slogan da GQ!
When I heard that a hurricane had hit New Orleans, I wasn't too shocked. I thought, well hurricanes hit Florida all the time; the folks in New Orleans will handle it. It wasn't until two days later that I actually started paying more attention to the news.
Potentially Poisonous FEMA Trailers Brought to LightFEMA's Office of General Counsel "has advised that we do not do testing," because this "would imply FEMA's ownership of this issue," wrote a FEMA logistics specialist on June 16, 2006, three months after news reports surfaced about the possible effects of the invisible cancer-cau …
Bush: 33 Months Reasonable For Rita, Not LibbyYesterday Don Siegelman's lawyers weighed in on the parallels between their client's case and Scooter Libby's. Vietnam and Gulf War veteran, Victor Rita's case is another with interesting similarities.
Study links hurricane stress to teen smokingTeenagers in a southeast Texas county were more likely to smoke cigarettes if they or their family members were affected by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, according to a university study.
Revised Hurricane ForecastColorado State University hurricane researcher William Gray's revised forecast issued today calls for nine hurricanes this season, five of them becoming intense.
According to the Washington Post on April 29, the U.S. Government turned down offers of foreign aid and assistance "worth untold millions of dollars" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Vandals trash Hogwarts Express (again)PEOPLE CAN BE SO UNAPPRECIATIVE, AND DON;T KNOW HOW TO VALUE HISTORY AND BEAUTY! THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS REPRESENTS PRIDE AND HISTORY TO THE CHILDREN OF LONDON AND CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD.
Report: Daniel Radcliffe signed for final two 'Potter' filmsPOTTERMANIA IS WONDERFUL!!!! I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT. IMAGE BEING SEVENTEEN AND IS #2 IN FORBES.
NPR : Why Katrina Became a Monster and Rita FizzledAll Things Considered, March 1, 2007 · It's a tale of two hurricanes. Katrina and Rita were both massive storms as they churned along a similar path through the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. But Katrina remained strong as it approached land while Rita faded.
Editorial: Waive the Stafford Act to aid Gulf Coast RecoveryThe recovery along the Gulf Coast and particularly in New Orleans is going too slowly, and there are steps the government can easily take to speed the process.
Bill would keep IRS hands off hurricane-grant moneyCongress provided money last year to help hurricane victims in Louisiana and Mississippi rebuild their homes. And now those homeowners are looking to Washington to keep the Internal Revenue Service from taking some of it back.
FEMA to speed up some projectsAcknowledging that recovery dollars are on a slow path to local governments, FEMA officials have offered to expedite a few projects that the parishes deem high priorities, hoping to begin bricks-and-mortar construction as soon as possible.
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita turned 217 square miles of coastal land and wetlands into waterRita ReopensRita - Queen of Speed is now back up and running, after an incident last weekend took her out of action.
Is the Market the Cause of Hurricane Damage?On this the day that the first tropical storm of the season crashes ashore in Florida let's think back a little bit to Katrina and Rita.
Bob Marley bass player loses royalty lawsuitAston "Familyman" Barrett, the bass player for Bob Marley and the Wailers, has lost a 60 million pound lawsuit over royalties and song-writing credits that pitted him against Island Records and the Marley family.
Bush administration urges oil companies and refiners to plan for hurricanesBush administration asked major U.S. oil companies and refiners Thursday to make emergency plans to ensure consumers can still buy gasoline if a hurricane disrupts energy infrastructure or knocks out the electricity at service stations.
Storm Evacuees Strain Texas HostsAnother reason why a good plan must be put in place as to how to bring back ALL residents to SE Louisiana.
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