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ATLANTA (AP) — Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints showed the high-flying Atlanta Falcons they’re not ready to give up their crown just yet. (more)

Kokomo, Ind. — An unknown man walked into a Kokomo home Christmas Eve, used the homeowner’s toilet and vomited twice inside. (more)

NEW ORLEANS – Police are investigating an early morning shooting in which a male prostitute who was dressed as woman was shot near the intersection of Tulane Avenue and South Miro Street, according to the New Orleans Police Department. (more)

The N.B.A. took the extraordinary step Monday of buying the New Orleans Hornets, one of the league’s most financially troubled franchises, after a deal for the sale of the club fell apart. (more)

Everybody knows about ACORN, the dead, but not really dead activist group charged with all sorts of improprieties and illegalities, the most significant of which is voter fraud, including registering Mickey Mouse to vote. (more)

Reporting from Denver — Kobe Bryant’s shot abandoned him. Pau Gasol no longer scored with ease. (more)

The Ryan brothers remember only highlights from their infamous fight at Southwestern Oklahoma State. It started in a dormitory and spilled outside, where two friends broke their noses while attempting to restore peace. (more)

Gauntlet, meet the ground. (more)

On New Year’s Day 2009, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) policeman Johannes Mehserle shot an unarmed black man as he lay face down on an Oakland, California BART station platform. Oscar Grant died the next morning. Like the Rodney King beating, the event was video-recorded by bystanders. As a result, there is absolutely no doubt Oscar Grant was face down, policemen kneeling on him, when Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant in the back at point blank range. (more)

Let’s jump right into this. The left is officially so desperate to pick up votes that they have stooped to using distracting, divisive issues to move attention away from the defining issue of this election cycle: THE ECONOMY. (more)

NEW ORLEANS – The calendar screams that it’s too early for grand proclamations. Week three games in the NFL don’t decide division titles or playoff berths. They merely give us some sense of direction. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO — Five things we learned while watching the Saints beat the 49ers in a real nail-biter on Monday Night Football, with New Orleans winning 25-22 on Garrett Hartley’s wounded-duck field goal as time expired … (more)

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it expected to file a civil suit against the oil companies involved in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for violation of federal environmental laws. (more)

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — For Minnesota Vikings defensive back Husain Abdullah, the most important clock inside the Metrodome was not the one keeping time for his team’s recent preseason game with the Seattle Seahawks. Another, showing the time of day, held greater significance for him and for the Vikings’ training staff. (more)

The federal bureaucracy’s blundering response to Hurricane Katrina is a lesson in the ineffectiveness of big government. (more)

NEW ORLEANS — George W. Bush’s presidency never fully recovered after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans. How ironic that five years later, its residents have him to thank for a brighter future. (more)

Five years later, what good came from Hurricane Katrina? (more)

NEW ORLEANS — Gulf Coast residents tried to put Hurricane Katrina behind them on Sunday, marking its fifth anniversary by casting wreaths into the water to remember the hundreds killed. But part of the catastrophe lives on, in abandoned homes still bearing spray-painted circles indicating they had been searched and whether bodies were found inside. (more)

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf region, killing nearly 2,000 and displacing more than 250,000 others from Louisiana to Florida. This week, in a series titled “Hurricane Katrina: Five Years After,” FoxNews.com looks back on the costliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. (more)

Five years after Hurricane Katrina, the biggest adversary for the people of Louisiana continues to be government at all levels — local, state and especially federal. (more)