Disasters

Residents have been allowed back to student housing near the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus after a natural gas leak forced a brief evacuation.
Authorities identified the victim Sunday as 72-year-old Gene A. Berthiaume of St. Paul.
Forty-five grimy, exhausted Chinese coal miners trapped by a cave-in were rescued Saturday, ending a 36-hour ordeal in the world's most dangerous country for the industry. Eight miners were killed in the accident.
As Thailand struggles to cope with the historic floods, holdouts are frustrating authorities who say victims' reluctance to leave behind their few possessions is complicating an already difficult relief effort.
Officials at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant detected a radioactive gas associated with fission that could indicate a new problem at one of its reactors.
Crews are using non-traditional tactics to fight a fire burning in the Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Minnesota.
Xcel Energy's Monticello nuclear power plant is back at full power 10 days after shutting down.
Moorhead says flood protection project to be complete in 2 years
Mayor Mark Voxland said by the end of 2013 the city will have purchased and removed 280 flood-prone homes and will have 12 miles of new or improved levees.
Young Minn. Somali collects stories of famine victims
Abdi Phenomenal, a 24-year-old spoken word artist from Minnesota, recently paid a visit to the camp across the border in Kenya where about 400,000 Somali famine victims have sought refuge.