Word: baton
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...months after the storm, it was uncertain whether the Saints themselves would be coming back. The franchise maintained the remainder of its 2005 schedule, playing "home" games in Baton Rouge and in San Antonio, where there was speculation - fueled, at times, by Saints owner Tom Benson - that the team might relocate for good. At a pre-game press conference, new National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell played down that perception. "I don't think that ever came into play," Goodell said, noting that the team returned to its training camp in New Orleans long before it was assured that...
...said Kampusch's alleged captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, 44, who killed himself by jumping in front of a train the day she escaped, had held her in the basement of his home. RECOVERING. Albert Ho, 55, Hong Kong lawyer and Democratic Party vice chairman, after being severely injured by three baton-wielding men who attacked him in a McDonald's on Aug. 19; in Hong Kong. Although no suspects have been named, Ho, a member of the Legislative Council and one of the city's best-known public figures, said the assault was likely related to his recent legal work involving...
...still very much in intensive care, but the mental health needs are crushing," says Donald Smithburg, head of the Louisiana State University Health Care Services division, which oversees the state's charity care system. The stress, he says, is felt beyond New Orleans. Emergency rooms as far away as Baton Rouge and Lafayette have mentally ill patients "boarding" for days in emergency rooms, waiting for hospital admission, because there are no available psych beds in the New Orleans area...
...storm and had someone to stay with fared better, with much of that category going to Atlanta, where only 16,000 of the 100,000 evacuees who came have left, versus those who ended up in Houston (150,000 of 250,000), San Antonio (15,000 of 30,000), Baton Rouge (25,000 to 30,000 of 300,000) and Birmingham (1,500 of 20,000), who have either returned to New Orleans to gone elsewhere. The report found that evacuation was an ever-evolving odyssey, as evacuees moved an average of 3.5 times after fleeing Katrina's wrath. Only...
...fence as her son, 8-year-old Joshua Omar Johnson, lined up with other fourth graders beneath an archway of blue and white balloons. She had doubted that New Orleans schools would be able to accommodate all the returning children like Joshua, who spent last year in school in Baton Rouge. Those doubts have been put to rest, she said...