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Houston Mayor Bill White and other local officials expressed mounting frustration Thursday with the slow pace of moving families displaced by Hurricane Ike into a long-term housing program. About 400 families had been referred to the Houston and Harris...
Now that voters have flashed a green light for the city's steel-on-steel rail project, elected leaders must work to get the most for the more than $4 billion it will cost. The best way to achieve that has always been routing the rail close to Pearl Harbor...
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Confessions of a Dangerous Wind Hurricane Ike messes with Texas, other states as it hits U.S. Posted at 5:32 AM on 15 Sep 2008 Before hitting land in the United States on Saturday, Hurricane Ike killed some 70 people in Haiti and four in Cuba last week...
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Energy producers in the Gulf of Mexico are slowly restoring production after hurricanes Gustav and Ike. More than 18 percent of all Gulf of Mexico oil production remains shut down in the aftermath of the September storms, the Minerals Management Service...
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A crewmember of a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean was medevaced to Buenaventura, Colombia in a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter after he was injured apparently by shrapnel from shots fired by the Coast Guard to disable the boat's...
offered proof positive that its sector can still bring home the bacon at earnings time. For the quarter, the Houston-based company earned $209.8 million, or $1 a share, versus $166.8 million, or $0.83 a share, a year ago. Without the presence of a pair...
More than six weeks after the hurricane, fewer than 200 trailers are available for people to live in on their property while their homes are being repaired, said Kevin Hamby, general counsel of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. Federal...
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The rand remained above the R11 per dollar levels at midday on Monday as sterling and euro took centre stage with falls against the strong US dollar. At 11:55 the rand was bid at R11.2072 to the dollar from a previous close of R11.1562. It was bid at...
The souring economy helped pack overnight shelters this summer and fall, worrying officials that cold weather will drive more homeless to shelters unable to house them. County leaders will meet this afternoon at Urban Ministry to discuss what some describe...
THE Manly JetCat faces the axe and victims of sexual assault and witnesses of serious crime may no longer be served by a witness assistance service under hard-hitting cuts to address the State Government's budget crisis. The budget was $163 million in...