Disasters

Officials of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America hope to persuade the U.S. Embassy in Haiti to work at recovering the body of a seminarian presumed killed in the earthquake that destroyed much of Port-au-Prince.
News Cut in New Orleans: A friendly rivalry
As the NFC Championship game approached, it wasn't hard to find New Orleans Saints fans embracing their Minnesota Vikings counterparts.
Haiti government calls off search and rescue
Haiti's government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over, the United Nations announced Saturday.
Local Shriners join aid efforts to Haiti
Twin Cities Shriners Hospital is working with Minnesota-based relief organizations to arrange treatment for a number of Haitian children injured in the recent earthquake.
Haiti's mass graves swell; doctors fear more death
Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims in a single day while relief workers warn the death toll could increase.
Local artists do what they can for Haiti
Singers sing, comedians tell jokes, painters paint - all to raise money for crisis relief in Haiti.
Aftershock drives more from Haitian capital
A frightening new aftershock Wednesday forced more earthquake survivors onto the capital's streets to live and sent others fleeing to the countryside, where aid was only beginning to reach wrecked towns.
Minnesota companies are among those making big donations to the Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee for people in Haiti.
ARC on the ground in Haiti
Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee has eight relief workers on the ground now in Haiti.
The death of a northern Minnesota teenager, found unresponsive in a snow bank, is under investigation.