NEW ORLEANS -- When 4-year-old Cortez Stewart was reunited with her mother and five siblings in Texas last week, it brought a happy ending to a long journey that began with the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Cortez represented the last of 5,192 Gulf Coast children listed as missing or displaced after the storms struck more than six months ago...
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Of the more than 5,000 children from both storms, all but 12 were found alive. Most were found living with other relatives, family friends or other adults...
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Thursday, March 23, 2006
The last of the children reported missing after Katrina and Rita is home
From Stacey Plaisance, Associated Press, March 23, 2006, in the Washington Times:
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