The city also elected its first Vietnamese City Council member
                                
                                
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                                    LaToya Cantrell, a City Council member who first gained a political following as she worked to help her hard-hit neighborhood recover from Hurricane Katrina, won a historic election Saturday that made her the first woman mayor of New Orleans,  AP  reports. The Democrat will succeed term-limited fellow Democrat Mitch Landrieu...