Disasters

Huge California wildfire reverberates in 2 states
After burning for nearly a week on the edges of California's Yosemite National Park, a massive wildfire of nearly 200 square miles has now crossed into it, and firefighters have barely begun to contain it.
A California wildfire burst into Yosemite National Park on Friday after growing to more than 105,620 acres, the U.S. Forestry Service says. More than 2,000 firefighting personnel are working on the blaze known as the Rim Fire, which is only 2 percent contained.
A 101-year-old woman died Wednesday after being hit by a St. Paul police vehicle last week.
The young boy who lost both feet in a train accident last week in St. Paul is hospitalized in fair condition.
St. Louis County authorities say human remains have been found in the ashes of a hunting shack near Tower in northeastern Minnesota.
A Big Lake man has died in a construction accident at a cabin near Hibbing.
A bicyclist was struck and injured by a car while riding in a bike tour across central Minnesota.
Police say the 9-year-old boy was found near the intersection of Ivy and Farrington in the North End. The child's feet had been severed by the train.
A tanker truck carrying 40,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate rolled over just after 8 a.m. today at the entrance to Hibbing Taconite.
Man killed in river crash was found in back seat of car
Darron Luhrsen, 26, of Minneapolis drowned after the Pontiac Sunfire veered off West River Parkway, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. The car crashed through a security fence near the Stone Arch bridge and fell into the river.