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Anxiety Still Rampant in Hurricane Katrina Kids, Study Says

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu talks about the city's recovery and future in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 19. Credit: J. Scott Applewhite, AP
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A startling number of Gulf coast area children displaced by Hurricane Katrina still ...

FEMA trailers might be causing health problems

It looks like a case tailor-made for Erin Brockovich: the air inside FEMA trailers issued to Hurricane Katrina survivors has high formaldehyde levels. Many trailer occupants, especially children, have been suffering from respiratory illnesses, ...

Explaining 9/11 to a child

Although my son is not even one year old, there will come a time when I need to sit down and explain to him what happened on 9/11 and why we have memorials, why we remember. At least I think I'll need to. By that time, perhaps, I'll have sorted ...

New Orleans school receiving aid from MTSU

It's hard to believe that more than a year has passed since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Cities and towns are still rebuilding, and students are trying to resume their normal school lives. Thanks to a tentative plan by Middle ...

Pitt and Jolie to help hurricane ravaged New Orleans

After all of the hullabaloo that followed the Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt camp for most of the winter and spring months, not much has been heard from the duo since the birth of their daughter, Shilo. But just recently the pair have announced plans to ...

Rescue dog saves lucky boy

Ryan Rambo has to be one of the luckiest children around these days. Not only did he survive Hurricane Katrina last fall, he also survived a near drowning weekend last Sunday in the cold mountain rivers of Colorado. The nine -year-old was on a ...

Brad Pitt: "We can rebuild New Orleans"

From People.com:  Even though Brad Pitt may be awaiting the birth of his child in Namibia with his partner, Angelina Jolie, and their children, don't believe that he's sitting idle -- he's focussed on rebuilding New Orleans back home. Pitt, who ...

Last missing child from Hurricane Katrina reunited with her family

How's this for a feel-good story:  BBC.com is reporting that four-year-old Cortez Stewart, the last child waiting to be returned to her family after Hurricane Katrina, was reunited with her mother last week, six months after the disaster. Little ...

New Orleans schools experience Katrina rebirth

From CNN.com:  the New Orleans school system has historically been one of the worst  in the United States -- buildings were dilapidated, kids were scoring low on standardized tests, money was disappearing.  Things seemed hopeless. ...

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