Miserable post-Ike life won't change soon for many
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press Writers
      GALVESTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was due back in hurricane-ravaged Texas for a second time to check on recovery efforts Wednesday as misery dragged on for many going into their fifth day after Ike.
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PETS OF THE WEEK
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Killer of 93-year-old woman in $10 burglary to die
      HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Widespread power shortages in the Huntsville area were not affecting the scheduled execution of a Texas prisoner condemned for killing an elderly woman 10 years ago. Former auto mechanic and laborer William Murray, 39, was set to die Wednesday evening. The execution would be the ninth this year in the nation's most active capital punishment state.
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