 Managers at one motel in Baton Rouge are trying to evict evacuees staying in 30 rooms, even though the Federal Emergency Management Agency is still paying for their stay.The owners of Pines Motel said the evacuees have trashed the rooms of their motel, and they need to leave.Managers Brent and Dana Servario went to door-to-door on Tuesday to tell evacuees the time had come for them to leave. Many of the evacuees have FEMA codes allowing them to stay until March 1, but managers called FEMA and were told if the evacuees are damaging the rooms they had a right to evict them.Despite the order from management, a majority of evacuees are not leaving the Pines Motel....
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 Conservatives At A Crossroads: Who Will Follow President Bush? |
At the 2006 Conservative Political Action Conference last week in Washington, D.C., one question lingered:Which Republican will follow President Bush?For the first time in over a decade, the party has no favorite-son contender for the White House. Vice President Dick Cheney has said he doesn't want a shot at the top job.That leaves the field wide open. Several Republicans are already politicking for the nod by touring primary states and attending grass-roots events such as CPAC.Early rumblings suggest a conservative groundswell, but a shift to the center still has significant support.CPAC's presidential straw poll had Sen. George Allen, R-Va., as the favorite. He was cited as the likely nominee by 22% of the conservative activists, political donors and other GOP supporters at the conference....
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&issue=20060214
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Editor - 17:54:00 02-14-06
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| Cheney cleared in hunting accident. You didn’t really expect anything more did you? |
Authorities have cleared Vice President Dick Cheney of wrongdoing in the Texas shooting of a hunting companion, while reporters aimed tough questions at White House officials about their delay in disclosing the accident.Cheney arrived for work at the White House on Tuesday without comment and his spokeswoman said the vice president had no plans for any public statement about his shooting of Harry Whittington.Cheney is monitoring Whittington's condition through friends, spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said, and he "is pleased" that Whittington "is doing well." Cheney and the 78-year-old Bush-Cheney campaign contributor were hunting quail on a friend's south Texas ranch Saturday when the accident took place.The state Parks and Wildlife Department issued Cheney a warning for not possessing a required stamp on his hunting license,...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/14/cheney/index.html?section=cnn_us
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Editor - 16:55:00 02-14-06
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| At confession, man unloads sins, gun, grenade German priest hands over arsenal to police, won't disclose name |
A priest in Germany got more than he bargained for during confession when a man not only declared his sins, but also handed over a machine gun and a hand grenade, police in Bavaria said on Tuesday.“He also gave the priest a cardboard box with a clown’s face and the words ’Red Nose Day March 26, 2004’ on it containing 34 cartridges of 7.65 mm caliber,” police said in a statement.The priest from the southern town of Pfarrkirchen turned in the weapons to police but told them church rules governing confession prevented him from revealing the man’s identity....
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Editor - 16:48:00 02-14-06
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| Abramoff claimed White House ties through Rove |
Three former associates of Jack Abramoff say the now-convicted lobbyist frequently told them he had strong ties to the White House through presidential confidant Karl Rove.The White House said Monday night that Rove remembers meeting Abramoff at a 1990s political meeting and considered the lobbyist a "casual acquaintance" since President Bush took office in 2001.New questions have arisen about Abramoff's ties to the White House since a photo emerged over the weekend showing Abramoff with Bush. The White House would not release the photo or any others that Bush had taken with Abramoff. Also surfacing were the contents of an e-mail from Abramoff to Washingtonian magazine claiming he had met briefly with the president nearly a dozen times and that Bush knew him well enough to make joking references to Abramoff's family....
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Editor - 16:45:00 02-14-06
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| Austria finds bird flu in swans |
The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has been confirmed in swans in Austria. Austria's health authorities said the cases in two dead wild swans were the first to be found in the country. The H5N1 strain, which can be deadly to humans, was also confirmed on Saturday in neighbouring Italy, as well as in Greece and Bulgaria. The swans were among 21 dead wild fowl examined in Austria. They were found at Mellach, near Graz, where restrictions on poultry are now in effect. The authorities have set up a protection zone within a three-kilometre (two-mile) radius of Mellach and a 10km surveillance zone beyond that. ...
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