Disasters

BOSTON (AP) — A New York woman accused of scamming almost half a million dollars from the fund for Boston Marathon bombing victims is due in Boston Municipal court today for an arraignment.

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger's interior minister says a body fell from an Air France plane as it approached the West African country's capital, Niamey, and was discovered lifeless in western suburb.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Survivors of the Asiana flight that crashed at San Francisco International Airport have returned to the wreckage site.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — City leaders in a Twin Cities suburb are asking for citizen help to spot old, decaying trees before they become a hazard.

A train carrying oil from the Bakkens to eastern Canada ran off the track in Quebec, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed a busy downtown district and killed five people.

Saturday, while many of us continued our Independence Day celebrations, Red Cross volunteers Dana and Gene Bischke of Bismarck were flying to Arizona.

Fifty-three state and tribal firefighters from North Dakota are deployed in the southwestern part of the country fighting wildfires.

Flash flooding swamped a southeastern North Dakota city on Thursday killing at least one motorist.

Western North Dakota has already seen three twisters this month and more could be on the way.

President Barack Obama Wednesday approved Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s request for a federal disaster declaration to help 16 North Dakota counties and the Spirit Lake Reservation recover from major spring flooding.