And, RIP Dennis Weaver...
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Children sat atop ladders yelling for beads and other trinkets Sunday as two of the Carnival season's biggest and glitziest parades rolled through this fun-starved city. By nightfall, the warm, sunny weather had chilled a bit, but that didn't stop the crowds - old, young and of all races - from partying. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which flooded most of the city last summer, people seemed a bit nicer - and less apt to lace their words with profanities - than in previous years, an annual vendor said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11571347/Politics: The Katrina Effect. Has the White House lost its game since Katrina?
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American journalist Jill Carroll is alive and Iraqi authorities are optimistic about her release, Iraqi officials said Monday. Iraq's interior minister, Bayan Jabr, told ABC News that he believes Carroll will be released, adding that he knows who abducted the 28-year-old journalist last month.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10704039/Interior Ministry forces captured a top aide to al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi during a raid in western Iraq, state television reported Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11491483/That 8 pm feud makes the news: Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly is such a swell guy he's trying to help out a rival network--and maybe find work for Phil Donahue, while he's at it. Oh, and if he could get MSNBC "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann fired in doing so, well, that would be OK, too. It's tongue in cheek, but some people might take it personally. Not Olbermann. Instead, on Friday's "Countdown," Olbermann and MSNBC staff signed the open letter to NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright that visitors to BillOReilly.com are asked to endorse.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0602260017feb26,1,709251.column?coll=chi-entertainmentfront-hedPrincess Diana has been dead for nearly nine years, but new charges are surfacing -- charges that are so alarming the future of the British royal family itself could be in question. The Sunday Times of London reported this weekend an allegation that Henri Paul -- the driver of Diana's car who died in the crash with the princess and her lover, Dodi Al Fayed -- was working as a spy, an operative for the French secret service intelligence agency. Previously, French authorities have reported that an autopsy report indicated Paul was drunk (also possibly on some sort of prescription drug) and speeding at the time of the fatal accident on Aug. 31, 1997.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-zp27.htmlIf Ohio State Sen. Robert Hagan's proposal becomes law, Republicans would be barred from adopting. Wednesday night, Hagan wrote a mock proposal to counter one introduced by State Rep. Ron Hood (R-Ashville) aimed at banning gay adoption. Hagan said that "credible research" shows that adopted children raised in Republican households are more at risk for developing "emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, and alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities." For his part, Rep. Hood's legislation, backed by eight other conservative Republican lawmakers, would prefer 22,000 Ohio children to languish in foster care than be adopted or fostered by gay parents.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060224/cm_huffpost/016311;_ylt=A86.I2Q5wQBEGDwAaAj9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
McKENZIE, N.D. -- Bernice McDowall says she never thought black cats were unlucky. Now her own black cat, Joey, is her hero. McDowall, 87, said she was taking a nap when Joey woke her up early Friday afternoon and probably saved her life. "He was having a fit, running around the bedroom," she said. Then she saw smoke in the bedroom, got up and saw smoke coming from the basement. She and Joey got out safely. Joey had found a home with the McDowalls after he was dumped off at a nearby mailbox awhile back. On Friday, he "really came in and sent the alarm," Bernice said.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAT_HERO?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMENow that's karma.
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Germany denied on Monday that its intelligence officials obtained a copy of Saddam Hussein's defense plan for Baghdad and passed it on to U.S. commanders a month before the 2003 Iraq invasion.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11588285/The U.S. Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton Co. subsidiary for nearly all of the $263 million in disputed costs over a contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, the New York Times reported on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10705395/Asbestos town dying as lawmakers dicker. Libby, Mont., is posterchild for compensation that has yet to materialize.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11589386/from/RS.5/"The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown was accused in Britain's High Court on Monday of taking material for his blockbuster conspiracy thriller from a 1982 book about the Holy Grail. The accusation was made in a breach of copyright lawsuit filed against "The Da Vinci Code" publisher Random House. If the lawsuit succeeds in getting an injunction barring use of the disputed material, the scheduled May 19 release of "The Da Vinci Code" film starring Tom Hanks and Ian McKellan could be threatened.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11589138/Sales of new homes fell for the second time in three months in January, providing further evidence that the nation's five-year housing boom is slowing.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11590239/from/RS.4/Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge, lost to Divorce Court and Psycho Path, which placed No. 1 in an online poll of the nation's wildest, weirdest and wackiest street names.
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