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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says short-term housing and food assistance is on the way to victims of the catastrophic flooding in south Louisiana. The governor said today that FEMA will pay for hotel rooms on a rolling, 30-day basis. Storm victims who are staying in cars, hotels, shelters or their workplace are eligible. Nearly 4,000 people remain in shelters. Donald Trump visited a flood area today. President Barack Obama will visit on Tuesday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — After years of denial, the United Nations is acknowledging that it played a role in inadvertently introducing cholera to Haiti and will now offer aid to victims. Experts say it was spread to the impoverished island from sewage from a base for U.N. troops from Nepal following the 2004 earthquake. Cholera has killed more than 9,300 Haitians and sickened over 800,000.
MIAMI (AP) — State and federal health officials say five more cases of mosquito-borne Zika infections have turned up in Florida, this time in Miami Beach. About 30 previous cases were linked to a trendy neighborhood north of Miami. There has been aerial spraying in that district, but officials say that won't be possible to spray Miami Beach because of its clustered high-rises. The large population and heavy tourism will make eradication a challenge.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who was scheduled to die for a 1996 fatal store robbery where he didn't pull the trigger. A bipartisan group of lawmakers signed a letter asking the state parole board for a reprieve for Jeffery Wood. But the court's ruling was based on claims of false testimony and false scientific evidence. The court said the execution is on hold until those claims are reviewed.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Baylor University President Ken Starr has resigned his post as a law school professor. That's Starr's last tie with the faith-based campus in Waco, Texas. The school is still reeling from a sexual assault scandal involving its football team. Starr, best known for prosecuting sex scandal charges against former President Bill Clinton, stepped down as president and then chancellor after being criticized for mishandling cases of football players accused of attacking women.
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