Mass. county sheriff hits the road to aid isolated La. mill town

BOGALUSA, La. -- On Sunday, a week after Hurricane Katrina tore through this old paper mill town hard by the Mississippi line, they still had not received any help from the outside world, and M.E. ''Toye" Taylor, the sleepless, homeless president of isolated, devastated Washington Parish, started to give up hope. (Full article: 990 words)

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