AP - When 4-year-old Cortez Stewart was reunited with her mother and five siblings in Texas last week, it closed a happy chapter in the sad story of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

AP - More than 5,000 children in four states were reported missing or displaced from their parents or guardians when hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast last summer. Here's a breakdown of the number of children reported in each state:

AP - Gov. Rick Perry ordered state officials Tuesday to develop an improved hurricane-evacuation plan to prevent the kind of chaos and gridlock that occurred when millions of Houston-area residents tried to get out ahead of Hurricane Rita last summer.

AP - The largest child-recovery effort in U.S. history is complete after more than six months, with 5,192 children missing after hurricanes Katrina and Rita reunited with family members, officials said Tuesday.

AP - Once the salt water is in your veins, Louisiana's coastal folk say, it's hard to give up the lifestyle of moonlit shrimping trips, the town "fais do-do" dances and afternoons spent on the bayous angling for catfish. But since last year's catastrophic hurricanes, this swampy land defined by Cajuns, cypress and tupelo gum forests, bayou-side saloons and, more recently, subdivisions may have become too vulnerable for that lifestyle to continue.