HURRICANE KATRINA DISCUSSION

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Review: Prisoner Flights Are Expensive
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pricey contracts and empty seats plague government flights that move U.S. prisoners to new jails and deport illegal immigrants, a Justice Department review concluded Tuesday. Additionally, the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transport System does not always have large enough crews to...


Liberia Leader Discusses Gains in Nation photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberia's president looked back Tuesday on nine months as Africa's first elected woman president and spoke of significant political development, some economic advances but potential perils lurking. Liberia has 2 million people living in a relatively small country, Ellen Johnson...


Court Rules Against Israeli Extremists
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government had sufficient basis to designate an Israeli extremist group a foreign terrorist organization, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The State Department "reasonably found" in 2003 that the group Kahane Chai made death threats against Israeli police and...


Correction: Army-Bribery Story
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - In an Oct. 12 story about a former Army Corps of Engineers employee convicted of taking almost $50,000 from a Kuwaiti real estate agent, The Associated Press erroneously described the plea agreement by Gheevarghese Pappen. He pleaded guilty to accepting illegal gratuities, not...