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IN THE MARSH OF CAMERON PARISH, La. (AP) _ craned his neck from the airboat as it circled a patch of brown marsh grass. The runaway coffin was not where it was supposed to be. Johnson pulled up to a pile of rocks, killed the motor and hopped out. After a few minutes of scouring along the tall, reedlike grass, he flagged down two fishermen. "Can you possibly take me along the shoreline?" Johnson asked. "I'm looking for a casket." Beyond the usual, dismal rebuilding, left another grim task when it struck last month: Its 13-foot storm surge washed an estimated 200 caskets out of their graves, ripping through most of Cameron Parish's 47 cemeteries and others in southwest and coastal . Some...
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Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | BAGHDAD (AP) — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ruling Shiite alliance said Sunday that parts of the draft security agreement that would keep U.S. troops here for three more years need more discussion and amendments before it can be approved. The statement by the United Iraqi Alliance did not spell out which parts of the deal it wanted changed. It said some portions were positive but others need more time "for discussion, dialogue and to amend some of its articles." The agreement provides for all U.S. troops to leave the country by the end of 2011 and would give Iraq limited authority to prosecute U.S. soldiers and...
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1 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) _ The Muslim call to prayer fills the halls of a Cairo computer shopping center, followed immediately by the click of locking doors as the young, bearded tech salesmen close shop and line up in rows to pray. Business grinding to a halt for daily prayers is not unusual in conservative Saudi Arabia, but until recently it was rare in the Egyptian capital, especially in affluent commercial districts like Mohandiseen, where the mall is located. But nearly the entire three-story mall is made up of computer stores run by Salafis, an ultraconservative Islamic movement that has grown dramatically across the Middle East in recent years. "We all pray together," said Yasser Mandi, a...
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1 ISLA MUJERES, Mexico (AP) _ On the night Lazaro Mendez got an alert that his boat had been stolen from the Florida Keys, he was swept up in a new chapter of the Cuban boat people drama. Grabbing a laptop computer that tracked the fishing boat's position by satellite, he watched as it stopped for refueling at sea, then shot off toward Cuba — the latest in a swarm of thefts of Florida boats prized by smugglers for their speed. Mendez, a Cuban-American and a popular Miami radio personality known as "DJ Laz," set out to get his boat back, succeeded, and even came face to face with the men who stole it. But it was just the tiniest of setbacks for a human-trafficking industry that is...
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JERUSALEM (AP) _ Israel's president is urging the Vatican not to let a contentious reference to World War II and Pope Pius XII put off a visit to the Holy Land by the current pontiff. A caption accompanying a photograph on display at...
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