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Local Shriners join aid efforts to Haiti

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.
by Jessica Mador

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Haiti's mass graves swell; doctors fear more death

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.

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Local artists do what they can for Haiti

Local artists do what they can for Haiti

Singers sing, comedians tell jokes, painters paint - all to raise money for crisis relief in Haiti.
by Marianne Combs

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Aftershock drives more from Haitian capital

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.

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Minnesota companies give big to Haiti relief

Minnesota companies are among those making big donations to the Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee for people in Haiti.
by Rupa Shenoy

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ARC on the ground in Haiti

ARC on the ground in Haiti

Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee has eight relief workers on the ground now in Haiti.

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Death of teen found in snowbank investigated

The death of a northern Minnesota teenager, found unresponsive in a snow bank, is under investigation.

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Body found after home fire near Parkers Prairie

The Otter Tail County sheriff's office says a body has been found following a fire at a rural Parkers Prairie home.

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New 6.1-quake hits Haiti, people flee into streets

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.

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Minn.-based Project Haiti landing in damaged country

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.
by Dan Olson

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