Disasters

At least one death in southwest Minnesota is being blamed on this week's snow storm.
In a reversal, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will not pursue offshore drilling off the East Coast of the U.S. and the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
A Minnesota family and classmates are grieving the loss of a high school sophomore who died after going into cardiac arrest on a school bus.
Authorities say slippery roads are to blame for a dozen vehicles in the ditch and at least two rollover crashes in the Twin Cities area this morning.
Authorities say a Moscow-bound flight with an engine problem returned safely to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport during an emergency landing. No one was injured.
Police Lt. Mike Murphy says two people are recovering from smoke inhalation but are expected to be alright. He says the fire was reported at 12:40 a.m. Saturday in the strip of four townhouses.
The last time the world warmed, 120,000 years ago, the Cancun coastline was swamped by a 7-foot rise in sea level in a few decades. A week from now at that Mexican resort, frustrated negotiators will try again to head off a new global deluge.
The Army Corps of Engineers is revising a Red River flood diversion plan to store more water upstream of the north-flowing river.
Authorities have recovered the body of a 53-year-old New London man floating in the Crow River in central Minnesota.
The fire was reported early today in the 2200-block of Garfield Avenue South. The three victims were transported to Hennepin County Medical Center.