Disasters

ARC on the ground in Haiti
Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee has eight relief workers on the ground now in Haiti.
A powerful new earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country's capital was devastated by an apocalyptic quake.
Minn.-based Project Haiti landing in damaged country
A team of medical personnel, put together by a Minnesota group that has been doing work in Haiti since 1992, is scheduled to go ashore to the earthquake-ravaged country on Wednesday.
Dealing with adoptions in Haiti
All Things Considered talked with Barb McGuire, senior director of Adoption at Children's Home Society and Family Services in St. Paul about the adoption situation in Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earhquake that hit the region last week.
US troops land at Haiti presidential palace
Six U.S. Navy helicopters touched down on the grounds of Haiti's damaged presidential palace on Tuesday bringing reinforcements in the struggle for security and earthquake disaster relief - more than 100 U.S. troops.