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• Details emerge about Fort Hood victims 10:05 a.m. CT
• House opens debate on health care overhaul bill 9:58 a.m. CT
• Obama praises those who ended Fort Hood violence 9:34 a.m. CT
• Updated schedule for New Orleans City Council's budget hearings 9:31 a.m. CT
• Ida spurs tropical storm warnings in Caribbean 9:25 a.m. CT
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• St. Tammany Parish jail budget battle goes to state 9:58 p.m. CT
• Folsom-area fire department scrambling to hold Dec. 26 election to renew millage 5:42 p.m. CT
• Slidell to unveil updated hazard mitigation plan 5:14 p.m. CT
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Causeway project hurdles cleared
A pair of cultural and historical issues that seemed ready to further delay the start of work on a new floodwall beneath Causeway Boulevard at Lake Pontchartrain now appear headed for resolution.
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NORD panel is seeking input
An advisory panel guiding an overhaul of the New Orleans Recreation Department has launched a Web site to generate new interest in its recommendations -- and to elicit more suggestions.
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Final hearing on master plan Tuesday
The New Orleans City Planning Commission will hold its final public hearing on the city's proposed master plan Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in the City Council chamber at City Hall, 1300 Perdido St.
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Global warming rally has N.O. tune
Drawn to Congo Square by the music of 350 musicians, hundreds of New Orleanians on Sunday became part of a movement across 181 countries to push for leaders to lower carbon emissions to offset global warming.
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India's former leader to speak
Abdul Kalam, India's president from 2002 to 2007, will speak Monday at 1:30 p.m. in the Kendall Cram Room of Tulane University's Lavin-Bernick Center.
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Man rescued after SUV plunges into lake
A Slidell man was rescued from Lake Pontchartrain on Sunday morning after the sport utility vehicle he was driving fell from the eastbound twin span, according to authorities in St. Tammany Parish.
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Police search for robber
New Orleans police are looking for a man who robbed a Central City area store at gunpoint Saturday evening.
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West Bank Holiday Inn evacuated for fire
About 200 guests had to be evacuated from a West Bank motel Sunday morning because of a clothes-dryer fire.
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Gain people's trust, planners told
Even the most well-crafted initiatives from architects and other professionals using post-Katrina New Orleans as a kind of urban planning laboratory will fail if they can't earn the trust of a diverse coalition of supporters, two local social justice advocates told a national conference of planners Saturday.
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State ACORN leaders regroup
Several longtime Louisiana ACORN members, backed by one state lawmaker, said Saturday that they will continue their work under the same name -- but within a new organization -- after the group's national leader ousted the director of the state chapter.
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200 gallons of oil spill in marsh
The Coast Guard and other agencies were working Saturday to clean up an oil spill in a marsh near Port Sulphur High School.
