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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - Hurricane Gustav plowed through the Cayman Islands toward Cuba, gathering strength on a journey that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina.
Tropical Storm Fay, rumbling toward the Gulf Coast, prompted parish emergency officials on Friday to pump out retention ponds and put sandbag operators on standby.
Forecasters warned that Gustav had the potential to grow into a perilous Category 3 hurricane and approach the Gulf Coast by Monday morning — though cautioned that a storm's track and intensity are extremely difficult to predict several days in advance.
Residents bail out water with buckets at the flooded front of a house during heavy rains caused by Hurricane Gustav in Leogan, southern Haiti, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. The death toll from Hurricane Gustav is up to 22 in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
State and local emergency officials cast wary eyes as Hurricane Gustav moved slowly through the Caribbean Friday, making preparations in case the storm threatens the region.
A McKinney company signed an exclusive contract Monday with the Netherland-based company Home Energy to manufacture wind turbines for all of the U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean.
On a Friday morning this month, a man in a yellow Hawaiian shirt stood before 18,000 at the Edward Jones Dome, talking about hope and freedom and the dream of a better life.
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Gustav became a hurricane again Friday as it plowed toward Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina.
Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Gustav swept through the Cayman Islands with torrential rain today, picking up speed as it headed toward Cuba and the U.S. Gulf Coast cities ravaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
PHILADELPHIA Corpse case ends A man who made millions of dollars by plundering hundreds of bodies sent to funeral homes and selling their often-diseased parts and tissues to medical companies pleaded guilty Friday to a raft of charges that could send him to prison for life. Michael Mastromarino, 44, pleaded guilty to hundreds of counts of abusing corpses, forgery, theft and other allegations ...
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