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NEW YORK – Growth in the U.S. service sector accelerated in August, according to an industry report Tuesday, showing that the huge chunk of the U.S. economy it accounts for was expanding prior to Hurricane Katrina (search). The Institute for Supply Management (search) non-manufacturing index rose to 65.0 in August, …

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Crews are driving around coastal Mississippi, picking up bodies left on sidewalks like garbage and depositing them in refrigerated mobile morgues. Coroners are conducting autopsies in parking lots because the only available light is from the sun. Most Hurricane Katrina (search) relief efforts are focused on the …

WASHINGTON – Twenty-six countries in an international energy consortium will release more than 60 million barrels of crude oil and gasoline to relieve the energy crunch caused by Hurricane Katrina (search) in the United States. As part of that effort, the Bush administration will release 30 million barrels of crude …