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Killer tornadoes rip through Arkansas, Oklahoma

Killer tornadoes rip through Arkansas, Oklahoma

Emergency officials were searching Monday for survivors after tornadoes tore through parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma overnight, killing at least 14 people and leveling entire neighborhoods.

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Winds rip trees, power lines across NE Minn.

The biggest outages came in Duluth and International Falls, Minnesota, where more than 1,000 customers temporarily lost power Monday.
by Dan Kraker

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Search resumes for car sunken in Mississippi River

Search resumes for car sunken in Mississippi River

Heavy wind and rain, along with strong currents, hampered the search on Sunday, said Maj. Darrell Huggett of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office.

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Currents hamper search for car sunken in Mississippi

Currents hamper search for car sunken in Mississippi

Police got a report just before 9 a.m. Sunday of a car sinking in the river. It happened under a pedestrian bridge just downstream from the 10th Avenue Bridge. It wasn't immediately clear if anybody was inside.
by Matt Sepic

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Mpls. pedestrian hit by bus reported conscious

The bus also struck a traffic pole and a some of the passengers on the bus reported minor injuries from the bus's sudden stop. The bus driver was also taken to HCMC for a medical evaluation and routine drug and alcohol testing.
by Tim Nelson

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Teen stowaway blows holes in vast airport security

A 15-year-old apparently wanted nothing more than to run away. But his success in slipping past layers of security early Sunday morning at San Jose International Airport made it clear that a determined person can still get into a supposedly safe area and sneak onto a plane.
by The Associated Press

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Tornado season coming soon: What Minnesotans need to know

Tornado season coming soon: What Minnesotans need to know

Tornado season in Minnesota is a long one that runs from early spring well into fall, as warm moisture comes in from the Gulf of Mexico clashing with colder, drier air. The only months during which a tornado has never touched down in Minnesota are December, January and February.
by Liala Helal

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Everest avalanche a reminder of risks Sherpas face

By Saturday evening, the bodies of 13 Sherpa guides had been taken from the mountain. Three more were missing, though few held out hope that they were still alive, 36 hours after Friday's avalanche. Four survivors had been flown to hospitals in Katmandu, Nepal's capital, where they were in stable condition. It was the deadliest disaster ever on Mount Everest.
by The Associated Press

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Student drowned in school pool during 'king of the hill' game

Student drowned in school pool during 'king of the hill' game

A police investigation into the late February drowning death of a St. Louis Park Middle School 7th grader found classmates were roughhousing in the pool before he sank to the bottom, and the teacher supervising was on his iPad.

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