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HURRICANE KATRINA | One year later
V O T E
STILL STRUGGLING
2006
Council
race
heating
up in SB
By Robert Rogers
Staff Writer
Al Cuizon/For The Sun
Mary Brown, 52, was close to having her home in New Orleans paid off when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast one year ago. Today, Mary
and her family live in an apartment in Fontana as they wait for the home to be rebuilt. In July, Brown traveled to New Orleans and spent two weeks
gutting her home and getting power restored, using $16,000 in insurance money.
Hurricane haunts
family in Fontana
By Leonor Vivanco
Staff Writer
FONTANA — Rain thrashed
against Mary Brown’s New Orleans home, pouring in through
every crevice as powerful, howling winds ripped off its roof and
pulled trees out of the front yard.
Brown and nearly 20 relatives
huddled in her son’s bedroom for
safety, equipped with the necessary supplies of food, water and
a portable radio. The home was
trembling and flooded.
‘‘I thought we was going to
die,’’ said Brown, 52, recalling
the horrors of Hurricane Katrina
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floor apartment on Arrow Boulevard in Fontana instead of her
two-story, $75,000 home about a
20-minute ride away from the
Louisiana Superdome and the
French Quarter.
‘‘My home was almost finished, almost paid off, and I
didn’t have to buy anything else
in my home,’’ said Brown, a certified nursing assistant who
moved from Hazelhurst, Miss.,
to New Orleans when she was a
teenager. ‘‘I was thinking about
retiring and everything. Now, it’s
like I’m struggling — I’m trying
to start all over in life.’’
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New Orleans
on Tuesday,
the day after
Hurricane Katrina
made landfall.
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city was under
water, and flooding
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100,
toll was at least
said its death are “very, very worand officials is going to go a lot
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civil
ried that
Press
Joe Spraggins,
The Associated
damage
higher,” said
Harrison
The potential
director for
refineries
S — Rescuers
Gulfto oil platforms,
NEW ORLEAN ravaged Gulf defense home to Biloxi and
that
and pipelines along the
to County,In neighboring Jackson
along the hurricaneaside the dead
least 10
port.
remained closed energy
Coast pushed Tuesday in a race County, officials said at storm.
Gulf Coast drove
the
highs
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prices to new
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gasodeeper
against time
Tuesday. Wholesaleto levels
Several victims a beachfront
Orleans sanks goverwhile New
were from
line costs surged prices
Louisiana’
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that could lead in some
into crisis and
as
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storm refugees
wall of water
of $3 per gallon
nor ordered city.
25-foot
a
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under
markets.
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winds.
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145 mph
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into
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cane Katrina
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ter coursing
enough
makday after New
Louisiana officials
have caused
refineries
dead there, too, punBig Easy a full to have escaped
damage to some weeks
were feared
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that it could take return
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ricane Katrina.
to normal. Production
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loss of electricity.
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The lawyers drawn together by the shooting
of U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Elio Carrion find
themselves in the middle of a landmark case
that has generated national attention.
Staff Writer
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east of downtown
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New Orleanss rescued
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By Rod Leveque
SAN BERNARDINO — A former
sheriff’s deputy must stand trial on attempted voluntary manslaughter
charges for shooting an unarmed man
at the end of a high-speed car chase in
Chino, a judge ruled Monday.
San Bernardino Superior Court
Judge Michael A. Smith made the decision after hearing about four hours
of testimony and repeatedly watching
a grainy video that shows Deputy
Ivory J. Webb Jr. shoot Elio Carrion,
an Air Force senior airman who had
just returned from a tour in Iraq.
The videotape of the Jan. 29 shooting, which has been widely broadcast
by the media, was among the most
compelling pieces of evidence pro-
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preliminary hearing in a downtown
San Bernardino courtroom on Monday.
Equally gripping, however, was the
nearly two-hour testimony from Carrion, who told the judge he was simply
trying to comply with Webb’s commands to get up off the ground when
the deputy suddenly shot him.
‘‘I never had a weapon in my
hands,’’ Carrion testified. ‘‘I had nothing in my hands.’’
Webb, 45, is the first peace officer
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Barstow
native in
Sudanese
prison
in San Bernardino County to be
charged in connection with an on-duty
shooting in at least three decades.
Prosecutors charged him in March
with attempted voluntary manslaughter along with enhancements for gun
use and causing great bodily injury.
The charges carry a penalty of more
than 18 years in state prison.
The shooting followed a high-speed
car chase in which Carrion was a passenger in a Corvette that fled from
Webb. The Corvette, driven by a friend
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Barstow native Paul Salopek is an
accomplished reporter who has spent
his journalistic career giving a voice
to those who have none, according to
his colleagues.
Now others are speaking in his
defense, hoping to bring him home
from Sudan, where
he was arrested on
charges of espionage,
writing
‘‘false
news,’’
passing information illegally, and a
noncriminal immi- Salopek
gration charge of
entering the country without a visa.
Salopek, 44, is a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.
He has covered wars in the Middle
East, won two Pulitzer Prizes and
earned the respect and esteem of his
colleagues at newspapers in multiple
states, according to news reports
published since his arrest three
weeks ago in the war-torn Darfur
Province of Sudan.
Paul Salopek was born at Barstow
Community Hospital on Feb. 9,
1962, to a local artist.
His family moved away from the
city when he was 6 years old and he
spent his childhood in Mexico. After
returning to the United States, he
worked his way up through small
papers to The Chicago Tribune. At
the time of his arrest, he was on a
scheduled leave of absence and was
writing about the Sahel region,
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Deputy faces trial in Chino shooting
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nearly a year later from the safety of her Fontana apartment. ‘‘I
started praying, and every time
the wind would rise up I’d ask
the Lord, ‘Please let the wind
just die down.’ ”
Hurricane Katrina wreaked its
havoc on New Orleans one year
ago today, after making its second and third landfalls in
Louisiana and Mississippi. It was
one of the deadliest hurricanes in
U.S. history, causing catastrophic
damage to the Gulf Coast and
killing more than 1,800 people.
In the year since, Brown’s life
has become vastly different.
She now lives in a second-
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SAN BERNARDINO — Just
more than two months before Election Day, the three candidates vying
to represent the city’s 3rd Ward still
move cautiously.
All three avoid hard disputes,
crafting positions that are tough on
crime and soft on everything else.
But the political storm is already
brewing in City Hall, as Gwen Terry,
Tobin Brinker and Randy Lally
jockey for position in the race to replace Gordon McGinnis, who resigned from the council because he
was moving to another city.
‘‘There is clearly a conservative
and more liberal bloc on the council,
so the next council member is going
to be very interesting to see,’’ said
City Attorney James F. Penman. ‘‘I
think the real smart candidate is going to look to establish himself as a
swing vote.’’
At this early juncture — the election is slated for Nov. 7 — they appear eager to do just that, as Terry
and Brinker portray themselves as
flexible pragmatists who support
Mayor Pat Morris’ anti-crime platform and will keep their allegiance
solely to their constituents.
Randy Lally, could not be reached
for comment.
Both Terry and Brinker said they
support the mayor’s ballot proposal
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