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Curfew to be lifted for New Orleans
By wire services
Published December 22, 2005
NEW ORLEANS - For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the city's celebrated Bourbon Street bars and other businesses will soon be allowed to stay open all night.
Mayor Ray Nagin announced Wednesday that he was lifting the city's 2 a.m. curfew for all areas west of the Industrial Canal, beginning Friday. Nagin also said residents would be allowed to stay overnight in more areas of the city that have been deemed safe for rebuilding.
The newly reopened areas include the city's Lakeview neighborhood near Lake Pontchartrain, where some homes flooded to the eaves after the nearby 17th Street Canal broke. Nagin said power, water and sewage has been restored to areas west of the Industrial Canal.
Va. recount confirms attorney general vote
RICHMOND, Va. - A recount Wednesday confirmed Republican Bob McDonnell's narrow victory for attorney general in the closest statewide election in modern Virginia history.
McDonnell gained 37 votes in the statewide recount. The final vote, certified Wednesday night by a three-judge panel, was 970,981 for McDonnell and 970,621 for Democrat Creigh Deeds, a 360-vote margin.
Deeds had asked for the recount after the state Board of Elections certified McDonnell the winner by just 323 votes out of more than 1.9-million cast in the Nov. 8 election - a margin of 0.0166 of a percentage point.
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