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...With its takeover of Southeastern Grocers, which owns Winn-Dixie and Harveys, it is moving into more conventional supermarket territory....
...New Orleans, a city on the Gulf of Mexico, and its surrounding parishes have 5,300 cases, and the metropolitan area’s death toll has topped 230, just lower than California’s....
...“It’s a godsend to the people we’re trying to help,” said Natalie Jayroe, chief executive of Second Harvest Food Bank in New Orleans....
...Katrina, which landed insurance companies with a $61bn bill and cost the wider economy $125bn when it devastated New Orleans in 2005, would be the only event in recent US history to rank higher....
...Works in the Sprüth Magers show span 125 years and include lesser-known artists such as the self-taught Sister Gertrude Morgan from New Orleans (1900-80) as well as today’s superstars such as Mehretu, Kara...
...Blaine LeCesne, a law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who has been following the case closely, says that the states are justified in seeking as much as possible from BP....
...The link between romance and menace in New Orleans is, for me, left over from the 1960s....
...If I had confined myself to these areas, I would have left New Orleans believing that the city was on its way to a full recovery. But large swathes of New Orleans remain desolate....
...Winn-Dixie, the regional chain that was previously Publix’s main competitor, has fared less well....
...Winn Dixie, a smaller regional supermarket chain, cited pressure from Wal-Mart’s supercenters as one of the factors that led it to seek bankruptcy protection in February....
...There is little of the strife and tension that has been so widely reported in New Orleans and only sporadic cases of looting....
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