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- Texas authorities vow to force 250 survivors of Hurricane Ike off coastal peninsua Tuesday, September 16, 2008 @ 10:39PMGALVESTON, Texas - About 250 people who withstood Hurricane Ike on a coastal sliver of land will be forced off it so crews can begin the recovery effort, authorities said today, vowing to invoke emergency powers to make it happen.
- Officials pledge to empty Ike-battered peninsula Tuesday, September 16, 2008 @ 6:54PMThe few hundred holdouts on Texas' ravaged Bolivar Peninsula will be required to leave in the next few days, and officials said Tuesday they are ready to use emergency powers to empty the barrier island scraped clean by Hurricane Ike.
- Ike's Death Toll Rises Tuesday, September 16, 2008 @ 6:29PM Harris County confirms 6 more deaths Ike's total death toll now 47; 17 dead in Texas County officials order Bolivar Peninsula evacuated, say they'll use force if needed Tiger now loose on Galveston Island
- Officals pledge to empty Ike-battered peninsula Tuesday, September 16, 2008 @ 4:50PM The few hundred holdouts on Texas' ravaged Bolivar Peninsula will be required to leave in the next few days, and officials said Tuesday they are ready to use emergency powers to empty the barrier island scraped clean by Hurricane Ike. Judge Jim Yarbrough, the top elected official in Galveston County, said the roughly 250 people who defied warnings they would be killed if they rode out ...
- Officals pledge to empty Ike-battered peninsula Tuesday, September 16, 2008 @ 3:35PMBy JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press Writers. The few hundred holdouts on Texas' ravaged Bolivar Peninsula will be required to leave in the next few days, and officials said Tuesday they are ready to use emergency powers to empty the barrier island scraped clean by Hurricane Ike.
- Galveston Residents Allowed Home Briefly Tuesday, September 16, 2008 @ 6:57AMPeople wanting to come back to hurricane-stricken Galveston are now allowed to briefly return to check out their property.
- State urges proper steps taken at restoring utilities Tuesday, September 16, 2008 @ 1:30AMThe Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) is urging residents affected by Sunday's wind storm to check electric connections and meters for damage. Damaged connections or meters must be repaired before power can be restored to a home or business.
- More Electricity Being Restored in Houston After Ike Monday, September 15, 2008 @ 1:39PMPresident Bush today warned that people will face a "pinch" because of Hurricane Ike's disruption of energy production.
- Ottawa man found dead in Denver hotel Tuesday, August 12, 2008 @ 7:49PMAn Ottawa man whose body was discovered in a Denver hotel might have died of cyanide poisoning, authorities say.
- Excerpt: 'The Unthinkable' Tuesday, July 22, 2008 @ 10:32AMOn the morning of December 6, 1917, a bright, windless day, a French freighter called the Mont Blanc began to slowly pull out of the Halifax harbor in Nova Scotia. At the time, Halifax was one of the busiest ports in the British Empire.
- GM to shut down Windsor transmission plant Monday, May 12, 2008 @ 11:45AMAbout 1,400 jobs in the auto sector will be lost after General Motors announced it is closing a transmission plant in Windsor, Ont., by mid- 2010.
