Disasters

Officials are concerned about a recent rise in all-terrain vehicle deaths in Minnesota.
Two men killed in a weekend motorcycle-van crash in Rock County have been identified.
Three young people got a scare after a rip current near the mouth of the Amnicon River near Superior, Wis., swept them into Lake Superior.
UN chief: Pakistan floods worst he has ever seen
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday the flooding in Pakistan was the worst disaster he had ever seen, and urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the up to 20 million people affected.
8 dead, 12 hurt at off-road race in Calif. desert
An off-road truck sailed off a jump and hurtled into a crowd at a race in the California desert, pinning bodies beneath it and sending others flying into a chaotic cloud of dust in a crash that killed eight people, authorities and witnesses said Sunday.
Austin Police say a boy, 16, died after jumping from a moving vehicle while his mother was driving.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty will attend a funeral Saturday in northern Minnesota for a National Guard major killed in the crash of a military cargo plane in Alaska.
Beleaguered oil giant BP has agreed to pay a record $50 million fine for failing to correct safety hazards at its Texas City oil refinery after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers.
Residents of Ames, Iowa, are lining up for bottled water because burst water mains caused by heavy flooding have rendered the city's tap water unsafe to drink.
Drilling the final feet of a relief well intended to permanently plug the busted BP oil well deep below the Gulf of Mexico will have to wait two to three days as a strengthening tropical depression bears down on the site.