Ike-battered Galveston allowing residents home (AP)

Sen. Kennedy taken to hospital from Cape Cod home (AP)
AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has been in treatment for brain cancer, was taken by ambulance to a hospital near his Cape Cod vacation home Friday after complaining of feeling ill.

Ike evacuees jump gun, sneak back onto island (AP)
AP - Rats, raw sewage and a no-excuses curfew await exiled residents who try to return to storm-wrecked Galveston Island when it reopens next week, officials warned Saturday, a week after...

Battered Galveston ready to rebuild after Ike (AP)
AP - The eight-pointed star on the wall outside Trey Click's office marks it as a "survivor." The squat, orange building withstood the ravages of the 1900 hurricane, which nearly flattened...

Texas a grim tableau nearly a week after Ike (AP)
AP - It's been nearly a week since Hurricane Ike bulled ashore, and the images of once-bustling coastal Texas communities reduced to only a faint shadow of their old selves are no less...

Some Ike victims may not be allowed to rebuild (AP)
AP - Hundreds of people whose beachfront homes were wrecked by Hurricane Ike may be barred from rebuilding under a little-noticed Texas law. And even those whose houses were spared could end...