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La. on alert as storm heads for Gulf Coast
By wire services
Published July 5, 2005
MIAMI - A tropical storm watch was issued Monday along the entire Louisiana coast as a tropical depression gained strength in the Gulf of Mexico.
The watch was issued for about 280 miles along the Louisiana coast from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Sabine Pass, Texas. A watch means tropical storm conditions are possible within 36 hours.
At 8 p.m, the system was at latitude 23.9 N and longitude 89.7 W, or about 360 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, and moving north-northwest at 13 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The depression had top sustained winds of 35 mph, and could strengthen into a tropical storm with top sustained winds of at least 39 mph, forecasters said.
Early Monday, the system made landfall over the Yucatan Peninsula, and it could bring another 2 to 4 inches of rain over the peninsula's northern tip over the next day, forecasters said. The depression could bring a total of 10 inches of rain in some areas.
Mexico hopes man it arrested is drug leader
MEXICO CITY - A man believed to be the leader of Mexico's top drug cartel was arrested in a shopping mall and police were checking his DNA and fingerprints to confirm his identity, the president's spokesman said Monday.
If confirmed, the detention of Vicente Carrillo Fuentes would be a major blow to the Juarez cartel, the only drug gang that hasn't had a top leader arrested amid a nationwide crackdown.
2 killed, 11 missing after Haitians' boat sinks
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A boat carrying dozens of migrants fleeing Haiti sank off the island's coast, killing two people and leaving 11 others feared dead, a U.N. official said Monday.
The boat left the northern region of Cap-Haitien on Saturday and was heading toward Turks and Caicos, said Damian Onses-Cardona, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Haiti. Twenty-three people survived, he said. Officials did not know immediately what caused the boat to sink.
Elsewhere...
CANADA FREES SEX KILLER: Canada's most notorious female inmate, Karla Homolka, 35, was secretly spirited from prison on Monday after serving 12 years for the rapes, torture and murders of three teenage girls, including her younger sister. Michele Pilon-Santilli, a spokeswoman for the correctional service, confirmed the release of Homolka - who has changed her name to Karla Teale - but would not say where she was headed.
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