Disasters

Carver County deputies are investigating after a 28-year-old man was found dead near to a snowmobile in Hollywood Township.
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.
Lake County officials are making plans to avoid the widespread communications outage that hit two weeks ago when a fiber optic line in Duluth was severed.
A Siberian husky dog bit a 10-day-old infant who then died, authorities in western Hennepin County said Friday.
Fire officials say two people have died in an apartment fire in Moorhead.
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.
Fire consumes retail center in south Mpls.
Minneapolis fire department officials say an accidental grease fire that started in a restaurant kitchen caused a two-alarm blaze that heavily damaged several nearby shops.