Disasters

Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive says the Haitian government will appropriate land to build temporary camps for earthquake victims. The decision, announced in an interview with The Associated Press, is potentially explosive in a country where a small elite owns most of the land in and around the capital.
The family of three people killed in a St. Paul crash in 2006 have hired attorneys to pursue a lawsuit against the Toyota Motor Corp.
The La Crosse County medical examiner says the college student who drowned in the Mississippi River at La Crosse this week was highly intoxicated.
Texas man angry with IRS crashes plane into office
A software engineer who crashed his plane into a Texas office building containing nearly 200 Internal Revenue Service employees, killing himself and at least one worker, apparently left behind an irate anti-government manifesto but offered little other hint of his intentions before the attack.
SW Minn. braces for possible spring floods
A new flood forecast due Friday is expected to confirm what many people, including Leroy Harnack, in Minnesota's Red River Valley already know: there's a lot of snow out there, and with it, a big potential for flooding.
Missionaries freed by Haitian judge land in U.S.
Eight American missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti returned to the U.S. aboard a military cargo plane early Thursday after nearly three weeks in a Haitian jail. But two others remained detained in an ordeal sparked by the group's attempt to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country.