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Searches intensify after body is found in Hurricane Michael's wake

Searches intensify after body is found in Hurricane Michael's wake

Rescuers intensified efforts Saturday to find survivors who might be trapped amid the ruins of a small Florida Panhandle community nearly obliterated by Hurricane Michael, where one body has already been recovered, tempers are flaring, and power could be out for weeks.
by Associated Press

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'It was life or death': Face-to-face with Michael's fury

'It was life or death': Face-to-face with Michael's fury

While most residents fled ahead of the storm's arrival, others stayed to face the hurricane. Some barely escaped as homes were smashed from their foundations, neighborhoods were submerged, and broken boards, sheet metal and other debris flew through the air.
by Associated Press

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Photos: Damage left by Hurricane Michael

Photos: Damage left by Hurricane Michael

Photos, including before-and-after views, of the damage left by Hurricane Michael this week along the coast of Florida's panhandle.
by Associated Press

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Wreckage left by Hurricane Michael slows relief efforts

Wreckage left by Hurricane Michael slows relief efforts

Government and nonprofit agencies work in advance of storms to create distribution networks for critical aid, but the category 4 hurricane damaged key communications and transportation infrastructure.
by David Schaper

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Search crews look for the dead and the living in Florida

Search crews look for the dead and the living in Florida

By early Friday it wasn't over yet: a tropical storm long after Wednesday's landfall, Michael stubbornly kept up its punch while barreling up the Southeast, dumping heavy rains and spreading flash flooding misery as far away as Virginia.
by The Associated Press

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Moose Lake fire no less horrible 100 years later

Moose Lake fire no less horrible 100 years later

One hundred years ago, Oct. 12, 1918, a convergence of forest fires burned a swath of Minnesota half the size of Rhode Island's land mass, and left hundreds dead.
by Dan Kraker

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Photos: Aftermath of the 1918 Cloquet-Moose Lake wildfire

Photos: Aftermath of the 1918 Cloquet-Moose Lake wildfire

Massive wildfires that swept across northeastern Minnesota in October 1918 destroyed Cloquet, Moose Lake and several other communities, leaving hundreds of people dead and thousands homeless.
by MPR News Staff

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U.S., Russian astronauts safe after emergency landing

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos' Alexei Ovchinin lifted off as scheduled Thursday from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz booster rocket. Roscosmos and NASA said the three-stage Soyuz booster suffered an emergency shutdown of its second stage.
by The Associated Press

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'Unimaginable destruction': Hurricane smashes rows of houses

'Unimaginable destruction': Hurricane smashes rows of houses

At least two deaths were blamed on Michael, and it wasn't done yet: Though weakened into a tropical storm, it continued to bring heavy rain and blustery winds to the Southeast as it pushed inland, soaking areas still recovering from last month's Hurricane Florence.
by The Associated Press

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