Hurricane Ike News

NEW YORK: Bermuda-based reinsurer PartnerRe Ltd. said Sunday it will acquire Swiss rival Paris Re in a cash and stock deal worth roughly $2 billion.

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series about efforts to restore the University of Texas Medical Branch to the status and capability it possessed before Hurricane Ike.

As crews apply the orange mark of doom to Hurricane Ike-damaged trees, Galveston resident Helen Douglas is going to bat for a magnolia, hoping to appeal its death sentence.

Officials in Texas are investigating the torching of 30 palm trees in the last two months.

Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch.

Memory lanes: There's no way to put a good spin on this. Hurricane Ike wiped out Galveston's last bowling alley.

Louisiana won't have to pick up a share of the cost for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's immediate response and recovery operations after Hurricane Ike.

Serial arsonists have torched 30 palm trees since May, prompting a tree service owner to offer a $1,000 reward for information that leads to charges.

Ricky and Angie Francese may still be in grade school, but the siblings have steadily gained a reputation in their community as philanthropists, one cup of lemonade at a time.

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison announced Tuesday the Bridge City Independent School District is just one of many Texas entities which will receive money for Hurricane Ike recovery projects.

Sheryl Roe moved from South Texas to Navarre to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Ike and to find a place to practice acupuncture.

Landry's Restaurants Inc. is in talks with a potential buyer for the Flagship Hotel, again raising questions about the fate of the rare, iconic property on pilings over the Gulf of Mexico.

More than three months after it opened, the mobile home park at Schreiber Field in Galveston is still only half full.

In an effort to cut down on parking problems downtown, city officials are considering placing a two-hour limit on parking in the area.

The county's legal department will seek dismissals of all lawsuits filed by prisoners who claimed living conditions were intolerable in the days after Hurricane Ike's landfall in Galveston.

Marine insurance. I always think of insurance at the beginning of the hurricane season.

How active will the 2009 hurricane season be for Louisiana? So far, there's been nothing to indicate an increased risk for the state, despite recent record-breaking heat and accompanying warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

Top Story Headlines Two-year-old girl drowns in family pool in Central El Paso A family in Central El Paso is mourning the loss of a little girl after she drowned in a family pool Friday evening.

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Eleven Michigan gas stations have entered into compliance agreements with the state amid allegations of price gouging during a 2008 hurricane.