Louisiana residents pull back from coast
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More than 16 months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced an unprecedented exodus from the Louisiana Gulf Coast, tens of thousands of homeowners have decided not to rebuild or have yet to make up their minds, an Associated Press analysis found.
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JENA, Louisiana  - Tens of thousands of black Americans descended on a small town in central Louisiana on Thursday to protest what they say is injustice against six black teenagers charged over a high school fight.
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Thousands of people in Louisiana and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast are struggling to rebuild their lives. In some areas, the population and economy are growing, but in others, serious issues remain such as battered infrastructure and violent crime.
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It's taken 40 years, but this southwest Louisiana village no longer bears the mark of the beast.
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NEW ORLEANS, La.  - The Big Easy became The Big  Queasy on Tuesday as the usually laid-back party town worried  about deadly Hurricane Ivan rumbling north through the Gulf of  Mexico toward the U.S. coast.
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ARABI, La. -- Honie Bauer was the first to move back.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than a million people in southern Louisiana have been told to get out of the way of Hurricane Ivan. An area of the Gulf Coast stretching from New Orleans to Florida is preparing for the arrival of Ivan.
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The remnants of tropical storm Ivan brought little more than rain to Texas and Louisiana on Friday. Ivan came ashore as a tropical storm about 7 pm Thursday near Cameron, La.
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This Louisiana town may have dried out and cleaned up since getting flattened by Hurricane Rita, but its recovery is moving in slow motion: Nearly everyone still lives in temporary housing.
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Many who fled snow for the Sun Belt are moving back to be near family.
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By Brad Heath  VENICE, La. -- State and federal plans for a massive hurricane protection bulwark for Louisiana would sacrifice dozens of coastal communities, some with thousands of residents, to the next Katrina-sized hurricane. The reason: Protecting them would cost too much.
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Many residents resolve to stay in the state - except when hurricanes pass through.
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As a formidable hurricane lurched closer, tens of thousands of Florida residents fled their coastal homes on Thursday and clogged highways
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Apprehensive coastal residents from Florida's Panhandle to Louisiana prepared to flee from massive Hurricane Ivan, which has entered the Gulf of Mexico and is on a collision course with the Gulf Coast.
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By Mark Yuasa, Seattle Times  Jun. 3--In the movie "Forrest Gump" the shrimp-fishing hotbed was the waters off Bayou Le Batre in Louisiana, but you don't have to travel that far south to find the mother lode.
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Hurricane Ivan is on the move and so are hundreds of thousands of residents along the Gulf Coast. This mammoth storm is now taking aim at the Southern United States.
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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - Frightened residents of the Gulf Coast from Floridaâs Panhandle to Louisianaâs bayous were boarding up windows, packing and hitting the road Tuesday as powerful Hurricane Ivan charged in their direction.