Disasters

March 30, 2014 11:51 AM

1 person dies after St. Paul fire

Two people were hospitalized after an early morning fire broke out at a home in St. Paul's Hamline-Midway neighborhood.

by Matt Sepic

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March 30, 2014 10:53 AM

No national system to track landslide hazards

The U.S. Geological Survey doesn't track or inventory slide areas on a national scale, despite an ambitious plan to do so more than a decade ago when Congress directed it to come up with a national strategy to reduce landslide losses.

by The Associated Press

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March 30, 2014 9:58 AM

Angry relatives of passengers on flight 370 demand answers

Families who lost loved ones on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are asking Malaysian officials to explain what happened to the jet that went missing three weeks ago. Dozens of relatives of the missing passengers arrived in Kuala Lampur from China Sunday.

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March 30, 2014 9:10 AM

List of those missing in Washington mudslide shrinks by two-thirds

The list of the missing has continued to shrink since early reports that nearly 200 people were unaccounted for in the aftermath of the massive mudslide.

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March 29, 2014 4:52 PM

Many still wary of water months after W.Va. spill

Many in this corner of West Virginia have taken matters into their own hands and changed water consumption habits, possibly for good. Many don't trust official declarations that the water is again safe to drink, nearly three months after the chemical smelling of licorice ran into the Elk River last Jan. 9, throwing lives into disarray.

by The Associated Press

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March 29, 2014 12:55 PM

Mudslides and landslides: Widely cited data is from 1985

That's the word from the Northwest News Network, where Jessica Robinson reports that the U.S. Geological Survey and other federal and state agencies all cite the same statistic when they say landslides kill 25-50 people and cause $1 to $2 billion in damages each year. The problem, she notes, is that the data comes from a National Research Council paper that's almost three decades old. Created by the Committee on Ground Failure Hazards, its title is "Reducing Losses from Landsliding in the United States."

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March 29, 2014 10:44 AM

Magnitude-5.1 earthquake shakes Los Angeles

A magnitude-5.1 earthquake centered south of Los Angeles shook residents throughout Southern California and sent bottles and cans tumbling off shelves in stores, produced a rock slide that closed a road and forced a brief shutdown of rides at Disneyland. There were no reports of major damage or injuries.

by The Associated Press

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March 28, 2014 2:33 PM

Car pulled back after hanging from Rochester parking ramp

Fire officials and tow truck operators had to pull back a car that had ended up suspended from the seventh floor of a parking ramp in eastern Minnesota.

by The Associated Press

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March 26, 2014 8:07 PM

School drowning highlights need for lifeguards, swimming lessons

Close to a dozen school children drowned across the country over the past few years, and their deaths have been heartbreakingly similar. Most were immigrant children who did not know how to swim, and no lifeguard was on duty.

by Laura Yuen