MARRERO, La. — In a pretty brick house on a cul-de-sac with a basketball hoop and flowering crape myrtles, a little boy with big blue eyes and hair the color of sand is trying to understand why Daddy is gone so much these days.
3 retired couples among those killed by floods
Strong quake kills 2 in Mexico, rattles US states
Millions in Calif., Ariz., Mexico feel 7.2 quake
Help grows for abandoned elderly Haitians
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — An international aid group has assumed day-to-day management of a nursing home in the Haitian capital where elderly residents were left starving in the dirt after the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Patrol names drivers in fatal Fla. tour bus crash
Authorities: Tour bus rollover in Fla. kills 2
Brazil heat wave kills 32 elderly people
BRASILIA, Brazil — Thirty-two elderly people died in a southeastern Brazilian city this week because of a heat wave that has pushed temperatures to unseasonably high levels, a health official said Wednesday.
Haiti nursing home still waiting on food pledges
Haiti elderly receive some medical care, need food
Brief aftershock hits stricken Haiti capital
Haiti to relocate 400,000 quake homeless
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Within days, the government will move 400,000 people made homeless by Haiti’s epic earthquake from their squalid improvised camps throughout the shattered capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts, a top Haitian official said Thursday.
Haiti to resettle 400,000 quake victims to camps
Rescue hopes dim; focus now to help Haiti homeless
Help finally starts to get to Haiti nursing home
Elderly and abandoned, 84 Haitians await death
