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• Fall rains bring havoc to Haiti

  November 13, 2012 8:56 PM

  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The rain has tapered off in Haiti and floodwaters no longer claw at houses, but the situation across much of the country remains grim following an autumn of punishing rains. Scores of people have died and experts fear food shortages loom. Heavy rains began falling even... more »

• US: Flaws in death toll report on Haiti quake

  June 4, 2011 12:36 AM

  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A U.S. official says flaws have been found in a controversial U.S. report that estimates Haiti's 2010 earthquake killed fewer people than previously thought. Mark Feierstein works on development issues in Latin American and the Caribbean for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He says... more »

• Haitian-born musician grazed by bullet in Port-au-Prince shooting

  March 20, 2011 4:59 PM

  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean says he was grazed by a bullet in the hand when he stepped out of his car in Haiti to make a phone call. The Haitian-American performer tells The Associated Press he had just left the car Saturday night when he... more »

• It's confirmed: Haiti body was David Hames

  February 9, 2010 6:24 PM

  The State Department has confirmed that remains discovered in the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti are those of a Colorado Springs man. David Hames was a videographer working for Compassion International when a massive, 7.0 earthquake reduced the hotel to rubble. Hames is survived by his widow Renee and... more »

• Arrests hamper legitimate adoption efforts

  February 1, 2010 7:59 PM

  Ten Americans were arrested in Haiti on suspicion of child trafficking for allegedly trying to cross the Border into the Dominican Republic with 33 children. All made court appearances on Monday, though no formal charges have yet been filed. Their arrests are damaging efforts by other orphanages to... more »

• Colorado Guard helps with Haiti relief efforts

  January 28, 2010 9:37 AM

  A Colorado Army National Guard crew is helping the U.S. Southern Command's relief efforts in Haiti. The crew was to have left Wednesday night to help ferry personnel, medical supplies and equipment between Homestead Air Force Base, Fla., and the airport in Port-au-Prince. Guard members will spend at least... more »

• Travolta flies supplies to Haiti

  January 26, 2010 1:40 PM

  John Travolta has left Haiti after flying a jet full of relief supplies into Port-au-Prince. The actor piloted his own Boeing 707 from Florida, packed with six tons of ready-to-eat military rations and medical supplies for earthquake survivors. Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston, was also aboard, along with doctors... more »

• Pueblo nurse returns from rescue work in Haiti

  January 25, 2010 8:14 PM

  He was among the first medical volunteers on the ground, and today a Pueblo nurse is back home and getting some much deserved rest. Eric Miller works in the intensive care unit at Saint Mary Corwin Hospital. He is one of several volunteers the hospital has sent to join... more »

• U.S. troops land at Haiti presidential palace

  January 19, 2010 11:54 AM

  Scores of U.S. troops landed on the lawn of Haiti's shattered presidential palace Tuesday to the cheers by quake victims eager for reinforcements in the sluggish global effort to bring food, water and shelter to the devastated country. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department told NBC News that up to... more »

• Compassion worker remains missing in Haiti

  January 18, 2010 1:52 PM

  Compassion International says rescue workers are continuing to look for one of its employees missing in the rubble of a Port-au-Prince hotel since a powerful earthquake struck there last week. The Colorado Springs-based agency says that workers are trying to find Dave Hames of Colorado Springs using information provided... more »

• Haitian orphanage's Colorado Springs office says kids are OK

  January 13, 2010 10:51 PM

  An orphanage in Haiti has it's U-S headquarters based in Colorado Springs and they're fielding hundreds of concerned calls and emails. Many of the calls to the group "God's Littlest Angels" are from adoptive parents who are concerned about their children in the orphanage. The Haitian adoption process takes... more »

• Compassion International awaiting word from staff in Haiti

  January 13, 2010 3:36 PM

  There's a nervous tension in the air at the Colorado Springs offices of Compassion International as the global children's aid ministry awaits word as to the over 80 staff members it has working in Haiti. Mark Hanlon the Senior Vice President of Compassion's USA group says they have mobilized... more »

• 'Substantial' casualties feared after 7.0 Haiti quake

  January 12, 2010 5:25 PM

  A powerful earthquake hit the impoverished country of Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital and other buildings and raising fears of "substantial" casualties. A reporter for the Reuters news agency in Port-au-Prince, the capital, said he saw dozens of dead and injured people in the rubble, which blocked streets... more »