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NEW ORLEANS — Heavy rains dampened but couldn't stop Mardi Gras festivities on Saturday. While several parades were delayed until Sunday, which is forecast to be sunny and mild, the 2500-member Krewe of Endymion

As Mardi Gras 2012 reaches its pinnacle Fat Tuesday, the float making business remains in full gear ahead all year long. Mardi Gras World builds the big floats. Its studio also offer tours 12 months a year, seven days a week.(Feb.

Mardi Gras. It brings to mind beads, parties and fancy floats in New Orleans as people cram in all the fun they can before Lent begins. In reality, Mardi Gras has long been celebrated in coastal towns from Texas to Florida. And it means big business.

By Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune For decades, Big Chief Victor Harris of the Spirit of FiYiYi sewed his Mardi Gras Indian suits with the help of a roomful of people — his "committee," he called them. But nearly 50 years after he began, deaths,

GOP Presidential hopeful and grimacing zealot Rick Santorum celebrated President's Day by unleashing a series of jaw-dropping absurdity almost majestic in scale. From chastising Obama for not governing America with Biblical values to calling for an end

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