JetBlue flight prepares for emergency landing - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

BREAKING NEWSMSNBC staff and news service reportsUpdated: 8:37 p.m. ET Sept. 21, 2005A JetBlue flight with 139 passengers on board developed a problem with its landing gear and was diverted to Los Angeles International Airport for an emergency landing on Wednesday, officials...

Maine doors open, but few takers

After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina became apparent, Penny Lane of Rockland collected more than two dozen boxes of clothing, toiletries and children's toys and books to help with hurricane relief efforts. But that wasn't enough to suit her. So now she has volunteered...

Idaho meterologist promotes Hurricane Katrina conspiracy theory

Scott Stevens, weatherman at KPVI-TV in Pocatello, Idaho claims that someone used Russian KGB technology to create Hurricane Katrina. According to a brief article published September 8, 2005 on Flashnews.com, Stevens blames the Japanese Yakuza mafia, who he says were...

Roe in Troubled Waters

The tone and tenor of the debate surrounding John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court will tell the public where progressives stand on the issue of abortion and the state of reproductive justice in America. Those elected to defend the Constitution must be willing to...

Left Behind: Bush's Holy War on Nature

When Katrina hit, it blew away yet another administration-managed scrim of irreality. First for scores of reporters and then for millions of Americans, it connected so many things (including what was happening in Iraq and here) that might otherwise have remained unlinked for...

Hurricane battered our emotions

ATLANTA -- Cara Chapman is one of many people who have not slept well in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. The mother of a 4-month-old daughter, Chapman lives in the Atlanta area and has no direct ties to Louisiana or Mississippi. But still, she finds herself worrying about...

Hurricane Reporting Changes TV Journalists

NEW YORK - Jeanne Meserve is haunted by voices in the dark pleading for help. John Roberts won't forget the woman whose husband of 53 years died at her feet. Shepard Smith remembers seeing bodies on highway ramps around the stadium where he had often driven to football...

NPR : John Battelle on 'Search' and Google's Future

Google's most recent endeavors include a search engine devoted to Hurricane Katrina resources and a search engine devoted to blogs.

NPR : Preparing for Future Disasters

As the Gulf Coast states struggle to recover from Hurricane Katrina, people are asking what can be done to prepare for the next disaster. From a massive hurricane in the East to a major earthquake in California, how are communities readying for their own worst-case...

The weatherman nobody heard

NEW ORLEANS -- On Aug. 28, the storm was still a day away. Evacuations were under way and people were just starting to arrive at the Superdome. At his desk at the National Weather Service office in Slidell, outside New Orleans, meteorologist Robert Ricks knew he had a job...

FEMA's city of anxiety in Florida

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - -- "Someone killed my dog," sputtered Royaltee Forman, still livid two weeks later. "They just threw him out the window and hung him with his own leash," he said, convinced that someone broke into his home while he was out. "I...

PluggedIn: Technology that took on a hurricane

NEW YORK (Reuters) - While big media covered the mass destruction brought by Hurricane Katrina with helicopter images and satellite weather maps, blogs have been telling stories with similar force, but on a much more personal level. Linking to the Internet's global computer...