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Reliant Energy seeks a buyer as credit crisis deepens
Houston-based Reliant Energy, citing credit market turmoil and the impact of Hurricane Ike, said today it is in search of a buyer.
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Eiland keeps speaker job on his radar
Although not his top priority right now, mainly because hurricane recovery is consuming much of his attention, Rep.
Bag of Christmas ornaments back home after Ike
Part of the plastic bag was barely visible in the sand and other debris on the Corpus Christi beach.
Four killed, two injured by lightning strike in Myanmar
Four villagers were killed and another two injured when lightning struck a shop in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyidaw, state media reported Sunday.
Dozens still missing after Hurricane Ike
BOLIVAR PENINSULA, Texas : Jerrith Baird last spoke to his grandmother by telephone the night Hurricane Ike swept away most of the houses on this narrow spit of land.
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AP Investigation: Ike environmental toll apparent
Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.
In the days before and after the deadly storm, companies and residents reported at least 448 releases of oil, gasoline and dozens of other substances into the air and water and onto the ground in Louisiana and Texas. The hardest hit places were industrial centers near Houston and Port Arthur, Texas, as well as oil production facilities off Louisiana's coast, according to the AP's analysis.
La. rice farmers struggle to salvage harvests
BATON ROUGE -- Two hurricanes brought saltwater surge and flooding rain, leaving Louisiana rice farmers in both the north and south of the state struggling to salvage a profitable harvest.
First Lady Laura Bush Visits Ike Evacuees
First lady Laura Bush served dinner and offered comfort Friday to people still out of their homes three weeks after Hurricane Ike slammed into the Texas coast.
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Sheriff: National death toll from Ike climbs to 70
A Texas sheriff's official says the national death toll from Hurricane Ike has hit 70 after two bodies were found near where the storm came ashore.
A search team made the discovery Saturday on an island off the devastated resort area of Bolivar Peninsula.
The bodies were taken to the Galveston County medical examiner's office. Sheriff's Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo (too-leh-MAHN'-doe) says he has no other information about the victims.
Ike forced more than a million people to flee the Texas coast before it hit Sept. 13. It caused flooding and deaths as far away as Pennsylvania.
Judge: FEMA Not Immune From Toxic Trailer Suits
The Associated Press 21 comments FEMA reportedly delayed handling complaints of formaldehyde levels in trailers.
Islanders insisted on staying, died in Ike
The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long.
Xmas ornaments from Sabine Pass end up on Corpus Christi beach
Some Christmas ornaments that were washed away by Hurricane Ike turned up hundreds of miles away -- on a beach in Corpus Christi.
About 1,200 Take Ike-Delayed Citizenship Oath
Oct 3, 2008 7:42 am US/Central About 1,200 immigrants in the Houston area whose naturalization ceremonies were delayed by Hurricane Ike will take their citizenship oaths Saturday, just in time to register to ...
Tropical storm Higos lands in S China
Higos, the 17th tropical storm of the year, landed in China's southernmost Hainan Province Friday evening, local observatory said.
Hurricane Marie forms off Mexico's Pacific coast
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Marie has formed far off Mexico's Pacific coast.
Beaches once thick with birds quiet thanks to Ike
One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent.
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Execs at Paris auto show brace for industry storm
Auto executives agree: their industry is headed into a giant storm. The clouds of global economic turmoil cast a pall over the opening of the Paris Motor Show on Thursday _ although a staged display of thunder ...
Ike debris washes onto Texas beaches
The world's longest undeveloped barrier island looks as if people have been living -- and dumping -- on it for decades.
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