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Crude Oil Surges More Than $4 on Hurricane Fears, OPEC

Crude-oil futures surged more than $4 — the biggest one-day price jump ever — amid worries that Tropical Storm Rita (search) strengthening off the Bahamas could hit U.S. oil facilities in the Gulf of Mexico later this week, striking another blow at an industry struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina. …

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Ophelia a Tropical Storm Again

WILMINGTON, N.C. – Ophelia kept up its teasing dance along the coast of the Carolinas on Monday, dropping slightly in strength from hurricane to tropical storm as it barely moved toward land. Although Ophelia was centered more than 200 miles offshore, nonresidents were ordered to leave one of North Carolina’s …

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Family Members Search for Each Other

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. – The only word 1-year-old Leah knew was “Da-da.” She lay in a stranger’s arms as her mother, Christi Scott, floated away in a hot tub. “I thought, there’s no way I’m going to find her,” said Scott, who drifted in her makeshift lifeboat atop Hurricane Katrina’s …

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