New Orleans vendors ready to return
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Candy maker Loretta Harrison sold pralines and other sugary treats at New Orleans' French Market for more than 15 years until Hurricane Katrina shut down her business.
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Despite competition from the Super Bowl, thousands of revelers lined up along streets Sunday as New Orleans wrapped up a big Carnival weekend with another day of parades leading up to Tuesday's finale.
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With the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina behind him and the task of rebuilding New Orleans' shattered economy just beginning, Mayor Ray Nagin will lead a two-day pitch to New York's investment community designed to bring much-needed business to the devastated city.
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The ravages of Katrina are still evident everywhere you turn. But there is reason for optimism in New Orleans. A city that once laughed at its colorful and inept political culture has found its civic pride.
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By Anonymous  The New Orleans Police Department is teaming with the Boys & Girls Club and the National Football League on a kickoff party reopening of the NFL Youth Education  Town Center at North Broad Street and Earhart Boulevard from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 16.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Despite slow progress in rebuilding some neighborhoods, New Orleans's population is nearing 300,000, or about 65 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina size, a new report says.
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New Orleans readies for its second Mardi Gras since Hurricane Katrina, as two people die in violence.
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The All-Star game will generate an estimated $80-$90 million for the city of New Orleans, which is still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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The New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage Festival will go on, say organizers, despite losses of &#36;800,000 to &#36;900,000 on this year's event.
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The final weekend leading up to Mardi Gras has been a boon for hotels, restaurants and bars, with business generally brisker than last year, the first Carnival since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.
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Dancing, drinking revelers filled the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday as parades rolled through on the final day of a Mardi Gras that locals said marked another step toward recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin opened the first of a planned series of service centers designed to help Hurricane Katrina evacuees outside Louisiana return to their hometown and rebuild it so it's "no longer a city of haves and have nots."
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Determined former residents who are bringing the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans back to life say government help has been minimal.
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New Orleans plans a new &#36;700  million jazz district and central park, aiming to use the  devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina as an opportunity to  rebuild the damaged core of the city.
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov 2O  - A Hurricane Katrina evacuee walks up to a woman in a bar and says, "Want to go back to my place?"
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National Basketball Association superstars will set aside slam dunks and 3-pointers this weekend to lift lumber and swing hammers as they help New Orleans rebuild from Hurricane Katrina.
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A symbolic sense of normality will   return to this hurricane-ravaged city when the New Orleans   Saints host the Atlanta Falcons at the Superdome on Monday   night.