Disasters

Beirut car bomb kills top official, 7 others
A car bomb ripped through Beirut on Friday, killing a top security official and seven others, shearing the balconies off apartment buildings and sending bloodied residents staggering into the streets in the most serious blast the Lebanese capital has seen in four years.
The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling some of its spray-on products after reports that a handful of people have caught on fire after applying the lotion.
A relief fund has been set up for residents of Bucyrus after a wildfire swept through the small southwestern North Dakota community.
Duluth looks into fixing 16 flood-damaged streams
Duluth is shifting its focus from basic infrastructure damaged by this June's floods to the area's 16 trout streams and officials don't expect the fix to be cheap.
Two Minnesota men are dead after their car crossed Highway 169, rolled into a ditch and ended up in Mille Lacs Lake.
NE Minn. flood help deadline nears
People who suffered damage from this summer's record flooding in northeast Minnesota only have a few more days to apply for disaster assistance.
Karlstad fire was arson, DNR says
Fire investigators say a wildfire that destroyed several homes in the northwest town of Karlstad this month was probably arson.
A second Stillwater, Minn., man has died as a result of a fire at an off-campus apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire early Monday morning.
Cook County sheriff's officials have identified two people found dead near their capsized canoe in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Authorities say it could be weeks before a wildfire in northwestern Minnesota is contained.