Bennie Pete, a New Orleans tuba player who co-founded and led the Hot 8, one of the city’s high-profile brass bands, and dedicated himself to preserving the musical traditions of the Big Easy after Hurricane Katrina, died on Sept. 6 at a hospital there. He was 45. His wife, Lameka
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‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Ida knocks out more oil than Katrina
US oil and gas companies on Friday cut more than 1.6 million barrels of oil production as a major storm churned toward oilfields that provide 17 per cent of the nation’s oil production. Production cutbacks ahead of Hurricane Ida exceed those during 2005’s devastating Katrina barreled into Cuba on Friday