Disasters

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.
Four people were pulled alive from the rubble Monday when one managed to call for help on his cell phone after a 7.2-magnitude quake leveled buildings and killed some 270 people in eastern Turkey.
Operators of the Monticello nuclear power plant are investigating what caused a transformer to lock out, prompting the plant to automatically shut down.
Somali famine getting less attention, still 'not solved'
Humanitarian aid workers from Minnesota predict the famine in Somalia will get worse before it gets better. Much-needed rain is expected to fall on the East African country over the next couple of months. But ironically, increased rainfall could deepen the crisis.
Indy 500 winner Wheldon dies after huge crash in Vegas race
Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after his car became ensnarled in a fiery 15-car pileup, flew over another vehicle and landed in a catch fence just outside turn 2. Three other drivers were hurt.