AP - Crime has increased dramatically in Gulf Coast counties hard hit by Hurricane Katrina, in part due to outsiders looking to prey on the weak, Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday.

AP - FEMA is extending a deadline for benefit applications by a month in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas to give the non-English-speaking hurricane victims more time to seek help, the agency said Friday.

AP - FEMA is extending a deadline for benefit applications by a month in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas to give the hurricanes' non-English-speaking victims more time to seek help, the agency said Friday.

AP - Six months after Hurricane Katrina, President Bush got a close-up look Wednesday at the mountains of debris, the abandoned homes and the boarded-up businesses that are shocking reminders of the "pain and agony" New Orleans endures still.

USATODAY.com - George Barisich, president of the United Commercial Fisherman's Association, was cited by a group of Homeland Security officials for selling an anti-FEMA T-shirt on federal property - in this case, a FEMA center in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Chalmette, La.

AP - The nation's beleaguered disaster response agency is frantically trying to fill hundreds of vacant jobs as the next hurricane season looms less than three months away, top officials said Thursday.

Reuters - The House of Representatives intelligence committee agreed on Thursday to accept limited oversight of President George W. Bush's domestic spying program in a deal that appeared to sideline the push for a full inquiry.

Reuters - Former Federal Emergency Management Director Michael Brown said on Thursday he feels vindicated by a video showing him in a conference with U.S. President George W. Bush and other officials warning them about the dangers posed by Hurricane Katrina.

Reuters - This year's hurricane season could match the record breaking destruction caused by storms in 2005, the United Nations warned.

AP - FEMA is struggling to fill hundreds of vacant jobs before the June 1 start of the annual hurricane season, the agency's chief said Thursday.

AP - Shortly before check-out time, Dwayne McLain rolled the last of his possessions out of the hotel he has called home for four months: some clothes, a football and a laptop computer.