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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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Michael upgraded to Category 3 as it approaches Florida Panhandle

Michael upgraded to Category 3 as it approaches Florida Panhandle

Michael is forecast to be the most destructive storm to hit the Panhandle in decades. It's expected to send life-threatening surges of ocean water into coastal areas along the Gulf, from Pensacola around the coast to Tampa.
by Amy Held and Bill Chappell

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Roads where limo crash killed 20 are a menace, store says

Roads where limo crash killed 20 are a menace, store says

Since a 2008 reconstruction, three tractor-trailers have run through the same stop sign authorities said the limo blew and into a field, said a manager of the store that sits at the intersection where the accident happened.
by The Associated Press

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20 dead in crash of limo headed to birthday celebration in upstate N.Y.

20 dead in crash of limo headed to birthday celebration in upstate N.Y.

A limousine carrying four sisters, other relatives and friends to a birthday celebration blew through a stop sign and slammed into a parked SUV outside a store in upstate New York, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians, officials and victims' relatives said Sunday.
by Associated Press

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