St. Anthony's Medical Center in south St. Louis County and SSM DePaul Health Center in north St. Louis County both were forced to quarantine the patients and those who may have been exposed to the patients who came in for

After hurricanes Katrina and Rita impact on the oil industry three years ago, market analysts are speculating that hurricane Gustav might severely damage crude production and refining platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast.

The raid at a local manufacturing plant, Howard Industries, was the largest in United States history. According to reports, with union workers and immigrant workers butting heads, someone tipped off the authorities, causing the investigation that began three years ago.

The president and vice president will either stay in Washington or visit areas that might be affected by the storm, which is expected to make landfall somewhere on the U.S. Gulf coast around noon Monday.

The evidence has been brought forward by a man who believes his stepfather was the zodiac killer. Dennis Kaufman told a local CBS affiliate that he is certain that the man who raised him since he was 5-years-old, Jack Tarrance,

Nagin announced that the city-assisted evacuation had managed to help tens of thousands of residents to leave by bus, train and plane and that when the time came that the city would help those evacuees return home.

Michael Mastromarino, 44, of Fort Lee, N.J., a former oral surgeon was caught trafficking body parts and tissue for transplants and donations with out the consent of the families of the deceased, and with out screening the tissues for disease.

The president made the announcement from Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in a press conference televised live shortly before 1 p.m. ET.

So far, gulf coast states from Florida to Louisiana have seen slight increases overnight Saturday with the highest increase at two cents a gallon.

Waste, which is measured by the ton, has shown a decline of 3 to 12 percent across the United States over the last year, according to solid waste managers around the nation.

HAVANA, Aug. 30 -- Gustav slammed into Cuba's tobacco-growing western tip as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane Saturday, while tens of thousands of Cubans scrambled to flee the path of the fast-growing storm.

PARIS (AFP) - Scientists Sunday said they could no longer rule out a fast-track melting of the Greenland icesheet -- a prospect, once the preserve of doomsayers, that would see much of the world's coastline drowned by rising seas.

FRANKFURT (AFP) - German insurance giant Allianz said Sunday it would sell the nation's third-largest private bank, Dresdner Bank, to number two Commerzbank for 9.8 billion euros (14.4 billion dollars).

NEW ORLEANS (AFP) - Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico was almost completely shut down and most rigs and platforms evacuated, as Hurricane Gustav churned towards the United States, the US officials said Sunday.

RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) - Iraqi and US troops were on alert on Sunday in Anbar, once the fiercest battleground in the war-torn country, as the American military prepared to transfer security control to local forces.

ST PAUL, Minnesota (AFP) - Republican White House hopeful John McCain suspended most of Monday's first day of his nominating convention, as Hurricane Gustav sparked political turmoil as it zeroed in on New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS (AFP) - The United States girded for disaster Sunday as Hurricane Gustav plowed toward Louisiana, with over a million people fleeing the Gulf Coast and oil production all but shut off in the Gulf of Mexico.

Residents of storm-wary New Orleans scrambled to flee the city Sunday as Hurricane Gustav barreled toward the Gulf Coast and police and National Guard troops took to the streets to patrol the city's evacuated neighborhoods.

With Hurricane Gustav bearing down on the Gulf Coast, GOP nominee Sen. John McCain announced late Sunday that he was largely suspending the first day of the Republican National Convention.

The Big Easy increasingly took on the eeriness of a ghost town as thousands heeded a mandatory evacuation order, and police and National Guard troops clamped down on the city to prevent the kind of lawlessness and chaos that followed