Disasters

Authorities in western Wyoming are looking for signs of a small plane carrying a Minneapolis man and three of his children.
Search continues for missing plane with  Minn. man, kids
Searchers resumed looking on Wednesday for a small plane carrying a Minneapolis business executive and his three children missing a remote area of western Wyoming.
A preliminary federal report blames an air traffic control error for a near-collision between a US Airways jet and a cargo plane over Minneapolis.
Searchers in helicopters and on the ground began scouring a rugged western Wyoming mountain range Tuesday for a Minnesota executive and his three children missing since their plane took off in snowy weather a day earlier.
Records show the death of a Minnesota Power employee last month was due to electrocution.
About 700 law enforcement officers, engineers, EMTs, and advocates gather in St. Paul Monday and will work for two days to improve the state's Toward Zero Deaths program.
Two men have died in a collision between two dirt bikes about 40 miles west of Duluth in northeastern Minnesota.
A Jordan woman has died after she was struck by a car while getting her mail.
In Haiti, cholera could heighten earthquake misery
Cholera is at the doorstep of a potential breeding ground: the squalid camps in Port-au-Prince where 1.3 million earthquake survivors live.
The St. Louis County sheriff's office says Daniel Paul Liska, 48, was hunting grouse with his brother, David Richard Liska, 49, of Forest Lake, near Elephant Lake on Saturday morning.