New Orleans DA's office running out of money

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NEW ORLEANS The district attorney's office in New Orleans is barely functioning. That's according to District Attorney Eddie Jordan. Jordan says that unless his office gets 842-thousand dollars by January, the agency will close with more than three thousand criminal cases pending.

Jordan says he's laid off all but eleven staff members and still has 79 prosecutors. But resignations are coming in _ and much of the evidence was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters. He's hopeful the National Archives will be able to restore much of that.

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