Disasters

A boating accident in Cass County has claimed one life, and a missing kayaker is presumed dead in a separate report from Itasca County.
A Belgrade man remains hospitalized after suffering a neck injury this week while diving from a dock into shallow water.
Six hotel employees in Eagan were taken to the hospital after becoming sick from a toxic mix of chemicals.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is blaming a large bird die-off in western Minnesota on Newcastle disease, a viral disease that commonly infects cormorants.
BP PLC says it may in the future drill in the same Gulf of Mexico oil reservoir that blew its top and caused one of the world's worst spills.
A mud-and-cement plug cured Friday in a blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, a key effort in snuffing the massive leak for good, while a BP personnel shuffle indicated shifting priorities as the petroleum giant gains the upper hand.
Two 14-year-old girls, struggling in the water after their canoe capsized on a southern Minnesota lake, were rescued by a police officer and a police department secretary.
Two school buses packed with children crashed into a tractor-trailer near St. Louis Thursday, leaving two dead and at least 50 people injured, officials said.
Officials at Rocky Mountain National Park say a man hiking Longs Peak was struck by lightning but had no memory of being hit.
A Minnesota man convicted in a deadly 2006 Toyota crash will soon learn whether he gets a new trial.