Disasters

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 12 counties in northern and northwestern Minnesota as agricultural disaster areas.
A single-engine plane crashed Monday afternoon a few hundred feet from an Eden Prairie neighborhood, injuring one, authorities said.
The owner of a coal freighter that sunk in the Duluth-Superior Harbor is suing a Wisconsin shipyard and a Minnesota dock company.
The Becker County sheriff's office is identifying the mother and her two children who were killed in a head-on collision near White Earth last week.
A Pine Point mother and her two sons died Friday after a head-on collision near White Earth sent their vehicle skidding down a steep embankment and into Net Lake.
A Pine Point mother and her two sons died Friday after a head-on collision near White Earth sent their vehicle skidding down a steep embankment and into Net Lake.
None of the lawsuits filed in the Interstate 35W bridge collapse will head to trial before March 2011, more than 3 1/2 years after the tragedy.
A man who fell or jumped from a Minneapolis overpass Sunday night landed on an open-top convertible.