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Giants fans flood city to cheer Super Bowl champs

Giants fans began pouring into lower Manhattan early Tuesday to give a ticker-tape salute to their Super Bowl champs.

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Rutgers stays at home, tabs Flood as coach

Hours after Florida International coach Mario Cristobal stunned the school by turning down the chance to be Greg Schiano’s successor the school, Kyle Flood accepted the job.

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Feds make slow progress on flood levee inventory (AP)

AP – More than six years after Hurricane Katrina’s rampage, authorities have taken only halting steps toward identifying weaknesses in a nationwide patchwork of levees intended to protect millions of Americans’ lives and property during potentially catastrophic floods.

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Flood barriers will determine Thai capital’s fate (AP)

A woman sits on sandbags made for flood barriers Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. Fear and confusion gripped Bangkok as residents grappled with mixed messages over whether Thailand's worst floods in decades would overwhelm the intricate defenses of the low-lying metropolis of 9 million people. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP – Beside a wall of white sandbags that has become a front line in Thailand’s battle to prevent an epic season of monsoon floods from reaching Bangkok, needlefish swim through knee-high water inside Sawat Taengon’s home.


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World’s central banks flood market with dollars (AP)

Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank and Chairman of the Global Economy Meeting, speaks at a press conference at the BIS's (Bank for International Settlements) bimonthly meeting at a hotel in Basel, Switzerland, Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. Trichet said central bankers agreed Monday they 'have the weaponry to provide liquidity' to banks as needed worldwide, and on an unlimited basis at fixed rates in the eurozone. (AP Photo/Keystone, Georgios Kefalas) GERMANY OUT - AUSTRIA OUTAP – Five of the world’s top central banks acted jointly Thursday to provide unlimited dollar loans to banks, a move aimed at easing the growing tensions in the eurozone’s financial sector and shielding the global economy from its jitters.


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Lee’s remnants bring fresh flood worries to East (AP)

AP – As the leftovers from Tropical Storm Lee brought welcome wet weather to farmers in the Southeast, many areas of the East Coast were getting soaked Wednesday, bringing new concerns about flooding.

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Lee’s remnants brings fresh flood worries to East (AP)

Brandon Franklin picks up a tar ball washed in by Tropical Storm Lee from amid shells at Gulf Shores, Ala., on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Franklin, coastal plans manager for the city, said the tar balls are suspected of being pieces of submerged tar mats left over from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Officials said Tuesday that they plan to test the black and brown globs to find out if they're related to last year's oil spill.   (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)AP – As the leftovers from Tropical Storm Lee brought welcome wet weather to farmers in the Southeast, many areas of the East Coast were getting soaked Wednesday, bringing new concerns about flooding.


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