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Decision: Dykes Spring screens Johnny Depp. Big films HJv5i: ice in Wonderland" I I I I I I i 18 II II II slated vi-l La. Tech hires football coach. IB '1 fei SHREVEP0RniMES.COM tohift-fyt-ti theaters soon. 1C 1 CADDO BOSSIER WEBSTER DESOTO Sonny Dykes Weather details, forecast 2A HIGH70 LOW43 Detailed weather maps and radar images at hfCVEfOrt xem guys were getting there, the incident commander was reporting everyone was accounted for." Damage apjx'ars to be concentrated in the 12100 block of South Interstate 20 East and directly across the inter-stale from there.

After the storm, a chimney stood like a sentry above one man's house that the tornado had reduced to 2-by-4s. QUtCKREAD A fast way to digest the news of the day Tie National Weather Service plans to survey storm damage this morning to confirm whether it was caused, as reported, by a tornado, meteorologist Aaron Stevens said. Hie Waskom Fire Department sought mutual aid from Shreveport just after the tornado hit at 5:34 p.m., Shreveport Fire Chief Brian Crawford said. His department sent three dogs and six handlers from its search-and-rescue team. "About the same time our Cyclone damages homes, business in Waskom, Texas.

By Kelsey McKinney kelseymckinneygannett.com A tornado loft its mark Wednesday evening two miles west of Waskom, Texas, damaging homes and businesses but sparing those who live and work there, according the Harrison County sheriff's office. Kennedy defends proposals Val HorvathThe Times Rod Cory, who owns Five Starr Builders in Waskom, Texas, stands in what used to be his office after a tornado leveled it Wednesday evening. GALLERY, SHREVEP0RniMES.COM I See TORNADO 8A fin- TV EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH State Treasurer John Kennedy says most of the proposals of the Government Streamlining Commission should be implemented immediately, but he still thinks the panel should have adopted some of his controversial proposals. PAGE 4A nil! i J- FileThe Times EES fV.O. obvious choice for Brees 1 v.

Mil -tJF 1 There weren't many positives that came in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One of the few exceptions was Saints quarterback Drew Brees. As a free agent in the winter of 2006, Brees visited the bruised, battered and downright beateri city of New Orleans. PAGE 4B 4 II I AP Rabinowitz relishes title win i 1 Matt Rabinowitz, ah Airline senior, etched his name in Lee High Louisiana Classic lore, becoming the first four-time event champion by capturing the 112-pound title over Sulphur's Joey Mereo. PAGE 2B 'V 0' Jl J3 Henrietta WildsmrthiileIne Times tfcM AP photo TOP: Tears run down a woman's face- as she attends a group prayer in a makeshift shelter in the street in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday.

ABOVE: People run through smoke coming from a burning building Wednesday in Port-au-Prince. International aid flowing into Haiti after last week's earthquake has been struggling with logistical problems, and many people are still desperate for food and water. Brown election a wake-up call TIMES editorial: The election of a Republican to the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Teddy Kennedy can prove a healthy moment for that mostly blue state. Indeed any candidate in any state or district should learn again the perils of taking voters for granted.

PAGE 6A Comment online at shreveporttimes.com Desperation deepens as more flee capital 1 ii. i- mk A i nWini ii hi it. California residents evacuate if.Y. few A third powerful Pacific storm pounded California with heavy rain and snow Wednesday, forcing evacuations of hundreds of homes below wildfire-scarred mountains, shutting a major interstate and unleashing lightning strikes on two airliners. PAGE 5A tin I i A AP Val HorvathThe Times Carrie Mercer (from left), Britney Winn and Leah Rea help set up a tent Wednesday in front of the Gold Dome at Centenary College as part of a tent city to raise money for Haiti earthquake victims.

Tent city benefits quake victims Cache of explosives found A slow vibration intensified into side-to-side shaking that lasted about eight seconds compared to last week's far stronger initial quake that seemed to go on for 30 seconds and registered 7.0 magnitude. Throngs again sought out small, ramshackle "tap-tap" buses to take them away from the city. On Port-au-Prince's beaches, more than 20,000 people looked for boats to carry them down the coast, the local Signal FM radio reported. But the desperation may be deeper outside the capital, closer to last week's quake epicenter. "We're waiting for food, for water, for anything," Emmanuel Doris-Cherie, 32, said in Leogane, 25 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince.

Homeless in Leogane lived under sheets draped across tree branches, and the damaged hospital "lacks everything," Red Cross surgeon Hassan Nasreddine said. Hundreds of Canadian soldiers and sailors were deploying to that town and to Jacmel on the south coast to support relief efforts, and the Hajtian government sent a plane and an overland team to assess needs in Petit-Goave, a seaside town 10 miles farther west from Leogane that was the epicenter of Wednesday's aftershock. The death toll was estimated at 200,000, according to Haitian government figures relayed by the European Commission, with 80,000 buried in mass graves. The commission raised its estimate of homeless to 2 million, from 1.5 million, and said 250,000 people needed urgent aid. By Paul Haven and Mike Melia The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -A frightening new aftershock Wednesday forced more earthquake survivors onto the capital's streets to live and sent others fleeing to the countryside, where aid was only beginning to reach wrecked towns.

A flotilla of rescue vessels, meanwhile, led by the U.S. hospital ship Comfort, converged on Port-au-Prince harbor to help fill gaps in still-lagging global efforts to deliver water, food and medical help. Hundreds of thousands of survivors of Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake were living in makeshift tents or on blankets and plastic sheets' under the tropical sun: The strongest tremor since the, Jan. 12 quake struck at 6:03 a.m., just before sunrise while many still slept. From the teeming plaza near the collapsed presidential palace to a hillside tent city, the 5.9-magnitude aftershock lasted only seconds but panicked thousands of Haitians.

1 "Jesus!" they cried as rubble tumbled and dust rose anew from govern ment buildings around the plaza. Parents gathered up children and ran. Up in the hills, where U.S. troops were helping thousands of homeless, people bolted screaming from their Jajoute Ricardo, 24, came run-, ning from his house, fearing its collapse. "Nobody will go to their house now," he said, as he sought a tent of his own.

"It is chaos, for real." sshrsyeprt xom Bomb technicians discovered a "multitude" of explosives Wednesday at the home of a man suspected in the shooting deaths of eight people. And crews were detonating the devices as more details about the gunman came to light. PAGE 5A DONATE ONLINE THROUGH FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN SHREVEPORT. PHOTO GALLERY. on down there," said Pfanner, 22.

This is just a small way for us to put ourselves in their shoes." About a dozen associated with Centenary and Shreveport's First United Methodist Church started a symbolic tent city on the Kings Highway side of the Gold Dome. Known as Cite Lespwa, or "City of Hope" in Haitian Creole, the group By Adam Kealoha Causey acauseygannett.com Adam Philley and Jessica Planner were novices Wednesday when it came to setting up a tent. Properly placing the ground cloth was a little perplexing. Shuffling the poles into their snaps wasn't smooth. "Oh.

that's what that's for," Pfanner said. "They go in that thingy Philley said while pointing. But the pair of recent Centenary College graduates knows the estimated 2 million people left homeless by the earthquake in Haiti deal with those complications and more as they try to live in the ravaged island nation. "This is nothing compared to what's going AP 6C Deaths Advice -f Zhs nits 5A Living Business 4A Price: 75C Classified 9B LocalState 5C Scoreboard J-l WWW Comics 1B I I II I Conversations 6A Sports I See TENT 8A -jq 0" "40901 "04001 9 2010 The Times Crossword 6C Television To subscribe: 866-979-NEWS (6397).