Disasters

Haiti 'got very lucky' as Tomas skirted island
Most everyone in Haiti was relieved that the country did not suffer what could have been its first big disaster since the January earthquake.
Seven students escaped a house fire in the St. Cloud State University campus neighborhood.
Fire burns Rock Island Swing Bridge
Firefighters in Inver Grove Heights are working to put out a fire on the Rock Island Swing Bridge, the double-decker bridge spans the Mississippi River.
A majority of Cass County voters living outside a proposed Fargo-Moorhead diversion channel voted Tuesday against a half-cent sales tax to pay for it.
The pilot of a small plane radioed that he couldn't maintain altitude because of mountain wind currents shortly before the plane crashed in northwest Wyoming, killing all four people aboard, federal investigators say.
Wyo. sheriff: No survivors in crash of small plane
The wreckage of a small plane carrying four members of a Minneapolis family has been found in a rugged Wyoming mountain range a week after it disappeared, and searchers said there were no survivors.
After June tornado, Wadena plots its future
This past weekend, a series of meetings in Wadena attempted to figure out what the town should look like as it rebuilds after a ravaging tornado in June.