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...Louisiana State Police Colonel Mike Edmonson described that plot as a “substantial, credible threat to police.”...
...New Orleans and suburban Jefferson parish instituted dusk-to-dawn curfews on Wednesday because of the storm’s expected duration....
...At least one Louisiana official – Jack Stephens, the sheriff of St Bernard Parish – has asked the federal authorities to investigate whether illegal immigrants are helping with the Gulf clean-up....
...It estimates state and local tax revenues increased by at least $153.3m in 2008 as a result....
...For example, California-based KB Home is planning to build 20,000 houses on a 3,000-acre site in Jefferson Parish on the outskirts of New Orleans....
...In New Orleans’ Jefferson parish, which has over 400,000 residents, a massive operation to restore utilities was launched. A few areas already have power....
...Or perhaps The Washington Post’s blithely printing unchecked an unnamed “senior Bush official”’s assertion that as of last Saturday, [Louisiana governor Kathleen] Blanco still had not declared a state of...
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