Crime turning New Orleans into Big Uneasy
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New Orleans, the "Big Easy" city famous for its good times and relaxed attitude, has become the Big Uneasy in recent weeks as its murder count has soared and anger grown at local leaders unable to stop the violence.
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Father Bill Terry of St. Anna's Episcopal Church in New Orleans wants everyone to know what's happening in his city: too many murders and too few people held accountable. He keeps track of the deaths on a "murder board," a plastic board hanging outside his church.
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A new rash of kidnappings has raised fears that well-armed, politically aligned street gangs are seeking to destabilize Haiti's new government, threatening U.N.-led efforts to restore security 2 1/2 years after a crippling revolt.
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Young gangsters rampaged through the heart of the Haitian capital, torching cars and firing in the air in what many people feared was a prelude to more violence.
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Protests against a City Council plan to tear down low-income New Orleans housing turned ugly Thursday, with police using pepper spray and stun guns to clear a crowd angry they weren't allowed into City Hall for the vote.
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The French Quarter may be open for business, but not enough tourists are showing up to buy. And if New Orleans stands any chance of having a real economic recovery, that has to change
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The bodies had been whisked away but the dried pool of blood covering the dirt-floor dead end of a twisting alley was a chilling sign of what happened here last week.
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A recent rise in violent crime accelerated in the first half of 2006, providing the clearest sign yet that the nation is in the midst of a prolonged increase in murder, assaults and other violent offenses, the FBI reported today.
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It's not like anyone from a decaying neighborhood east of downtown is harboring illusions that the place is crime-free. But the discovery of six bodies has raised fears that a serial killer is preying on the area, which one activist calls the most decrepit in the city.
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It&#39;s violent. It&#39;s profane and politically incorrect. It&#39;s packed wall to wall with tough thugs doing terrible things.
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An explosion rocks New York, sending fear over a city that knows it is a target of terror.
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Dozens of heavily armed police officers swarmed a suburban New Orleans neighborhood Friday where a man suspected of killing of a sheriff&#039;s deputy was holding an elderly resident hostage, authorities said.
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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 US coast.
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Two years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still licking its wounds but efforts are being made to bring back the tourists that once made the Big Easy a major draw.
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Thousands of former New Orleanians are breaking their ties with the damaged city for which they still yearn.
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Port-Au-Prince - Young gangsters rampaged through a neighbourhood blocks from the presidential National Palace, torching cars and firing in the air in what many expect is a prelude to another fearsomely violent day in Haiti&#39;s capital.
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From Boston to Athens to New York, fear of terror and traffic drives people away.