NEW YORK The onslaught of Gulf Coast hurricanes has been chosen as the top Associated Press story of 2005 in a vote of U-S editors and news directors.
Katrina made landfall August 29th -- leading to the swamping of New Orleans.
Tens of thousands of Louisiana evacuees headed for Texas.
Rita came ashore September 24th near Sabine (suh-BEEN') Pass.
The hurricanes received 242 first-place votes out of 288 ballots cast.
No other A-P story received more than 18 first-place votes.
The death of Pope John Paul the second and the election of Joseph Ratzinger to succeed him as Pope was the number two pick, followed by the situation in Iraq.
Iraq was voted the top story in 2002 and 2003, and was runner-up in 2004 to the U-S election in which President Bush won a second term.
Here are 2005's top 10 stories, as voted by A-P members:
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