Disasters

Police say a Duluth officer, just days away from retirement, is hospitalized after his squad car was hit by a repeat drunken driver.
Live BBC Coverage: nuclear accidents compound crisis in Japan
The BBC's "World Have Your Say" brings live coverage of events unfolding in Japan as it struggles with containing possible breaches in nuclear reactors damaged from the recent earthquake and tsunami.
Minnesota companies with operations in Japan are trying to figure out how much their business will suffer as a result of the country's recent devastating earthquake and tsunami.
The National Transportation Safety Board meets in Washington on Tuesday to consider a final report on a 2008 plane crash in Owatonna, Minn., that killed eight people.
Gov. Mark Dayton is holding preparedness meetings in two Minnesota cities in parts of the state that could see major flooding this spring.
What caused an Owatonna jet crash that killed 8?
Eight people -- the crew and several East Coast business executives -- were killed when the jet tried to land, aborted the landing, and then crashed into a cornfield.
Japanese ordered indoors in radiation leak crisis
Radiation leaked from a crippled nuclear plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan after a third reactor was rocked by an explosion Tuesday and a fourth caught fire in a dramatic escalation of the 4-day-old catastrophe. The government warned anyone nearby to stay indoors to avoid exposure.
Disaster survivors recall moments of terror
In the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, the line between life and death proved very thin. The death toll was feared to be higher than 10,000.
Work crews from the Metropolitan Airports Commission Monday began building temporary sections of a floodwall at the St. Paul Downtown Airport, in preparation for expected spring flooding.
President Barack Obama says he has offered Japan any assistance the United States can provide as it recovers from "multiple disasters."