Disasters

January 30, 2010 11:23 AM

Officials conduct training exercise in Minneapolis

Local, state and federal law enforcement will be holding a mock terrorism incident on Saturday morning in Minneapolis as part of a training exercise.

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January 29, 2010 12:43 PM

Mpls woman loses relatives in quake, then daughter in car crash

A Minneapolis woman who lost several members of her family in the Haiti earthquake suffered another tragedy when her 20-year old daughter was killed in a car accident Thursday night.

by Tim Nelson

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January 29, 2010 8:31 AM

Searchers in Haiti recover body of Duluth pastors' son

Seminary student Ben Larson, above, was killed in the earthquake in a collapse orphanage.

by Tim Nelson

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January 29, 2010 7:25 AM

Medicine running out at Haiti hospitals, clinics

Doctors and aid workers say treating the tens of thousands of Haitians injured by the earthquake is taxing the country's devastated hospitals - as well as the efforts of physicians from around the world who are providing emergency care.

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January 29, 2010 12:00 AM

Voices of Haiti relief: Minnesotans pitching in to help

Local relief groups and citizens describe how they are responding to the earthquake in Haiti.

by Molly Bloom

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January 28, 2010 7:43 PM

Minn. college students evacuated from Machu Picchu

A group of Gustavus Adolphus College students and faculty who have been stranded near Machu Picchu in Peru have been airlifted to a nearby city.

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January 27, 2010 5:01 PM

Helping Haitians with day-to-day needs

After the earthquake that devastated Haiti, Minneapolis businessman Ashish Gadnis set up a Web site that actually collects things that will meet day-to-day needs of the earthquake survivors.

by Tom Crann

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January 25, 2010 9:40 AM

ELCA hopes to recover seminarian's body in Haiti

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.