Haiti earthquake: Latest news, information

• Photos: Earthquakes in Haiti
  1/20/10

  A fierce earthquake struck the country of Haiti late Tuesday afternoon, January 12, causing a crowded hospital to collapse, leveling countless shantytown dwellings and bringing even more suffering to a place that was already the hemisphere's poorest and most disaster-prone spot.

• Local doctors help relief efforts in Haiti
  1/23/10

  4 physicians from Grandview Medical Center took food and water to rescue operations site at Hotel Montana in Haiti.

• Photos: Grandview doctors in Haiti
  1/22/10

  Four Grandview Medical Center doctors traveled to Haiti to help after the earthquake that killed thousands of people. The doctors were trying to find a friend from Washington state who is missing in the rubble. These photos were taken during their search and while they helped give medical care to those in need.

• Ohio Task Force One won’t go to Haiti
  1/22/10

  Ohio Task Force 1, on standby in Dayton since Jan. 14 to assist in Haiti earthquake relief, has been ordered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stand down.

• Photos: MTV's Hope for Haiti benefit
  1/23/10

  "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief," was held on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, in New York, Los Angeles and London.

• Ginghamsburg team reports on aid work in Haiti
  1/25/10

  The three-person medical team from Ginghamsburg Church, including Dr. Steve Guy, an obstetrician/gynocologist from Vandalia, is continually sending back messages from Haiti via Facebook and e-mail. The team says they're treating a variety of general health problems and working to get people with serious problems to bigger facilities.

• Area agency provides aerial images to help focus Haiti relief efforts
  1/22/10

  The National Air and Space Intelligence Center is providing images from aerial reconnaissance over Haiti to help U.

• Earthquake damages some schools beyond repair, Dewine says
  1/22/10

  Six of the eight campuses in the Becky DeWine School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, may be so damaged they will never reopen, said former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine.

• School collecting for Haitian children
  1/21/10

  A local private school is hosting a children’s clothing drive to benefit the children in Haiti.

• UD grad clings to hope for missing daughter
  1/21/10

  Last year, the faculty at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., deemed Haiti too unsafe for its annual “Journey of Hope” food outreach trip.

• Haiti’s tragedy shows a cruel trick of luck for girl
  1/21/10

  Little Jousely is dead, crushed under the weight of her school building in Leogane, Haiti.She is one of at least 50,000 dead.

• Grandview doctors help at Haiti hotel
  1/21/10

  A Grandview Medical Center cardiologist who has made humanitarian missions his calling has been in Haiti with others from the Dayton region since Sunday at the site of an upscale hotel that collapsed during the earthquake.

• Local missionaries expected home soon from Haiti
  1/20/10

  All 18 members of CornerStone Dunkard Brethren Church in Covington who arrived in Haiti Jan. 12 are in good health and looking to head home some time in the next several days, said David Rice, a pastor at the church.

• WSU medical team on alert for Haiti deployment
  1/21/10

  Wright State University’s National Center for Medical Readiness has been placed on alert status and is preparing a 500-bed field hospital for deployment to Haiti.

• Local radio team locked in on Haiti
  1/21/10

  Working three- to four-hour volunteer shifts, 30 members of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association have staffed their communication center 24 hours a day since, monitoring broadcasts in, out of and about Haiti.

• Video: Monitoring ham radios for Haiti information
  1/20/10

  Dayton Amateur Radio Association members monitor ham radios for information concerning Haiti.

• Texting raises $24M for Haiti earthquake relief
  1/20/10

  Often viewed by adults as a mindless diversion for teenagers, texting is proving its worth as a fundraising tool as millions of Americans text donations for Haiti relief over their cell phones.

• Local man to host party to raise money for Haitian relief efforts
  1/19/10

  The heartbreaking images coming from Haiti prompted Tommy Owens Jr., the youth program coordinator for the Dayton Urban League, to call some friends and organize a fund-raiser on Saturday, Jan. 23.

• Daughter of UD grad missing in Haiti
  1/19/10

  The 22-year-old daughter of 1978 University of Dayton graduate John Gianacaci is one of four New Jersey college students still missing since last week’s earthquake in Haiti.

• Haiti starts to see relief
  1/17/10

  For the first time since a catastrophic earthquake shuddered across Haiti last week, there were real signs of relief Saturday, Jan.

• Quake survivor: “We saw bodies everywhere”
  1/16/10

  Father Tom Hagan has seen so much suffering during more than 13 years in Haiti: flooding, four hurricanes, near-starvation a daily reality.

• Local Haitian family anxiously awaits news about relatives
  1/16/10

  A local family anxiously awaiting news about relatives in Haiti got word Thursday night that relatives survived the quake, but the family home did not.

• Photos: Ohio Task Force One grounded
  1/16/10

  Members of the Rescue Team of Task Force One were set to deploy to Haiti to help victims in the recent earthquake, but the mission was scrapped Saturday, Jan. 16.

• Photos: Vigil for children of Haiti
  1/17/10

  About 40 people gathered at Stillwater United Methodist Church on Stop Eight Road Sunday night Jan. 17, 2010 to hold a vigil for Haiti children who are suffering in the aftermath of the recent earthquake. The people lit candles and prayed during the service.

• Rescue mission to Haiti canceled at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
  1/16/10

  Two Air Force C-17 transport planes had already been loaded with tons of equipment at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Saturday, and were prepared to fly the Ohio Task Force One rescue team to Haiti when the mission was called off.

• UD holds special Mass for Marianists and quake victims in Haiti
  1/16/10

  UD held a special Mass on Friday in the Immaculate Conception Chapel in memory of the victims of the earthquake on Tuesday, January 12, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and in support of the reconstruction efforts.

• Local organizations seek donations for Haiti
  1/15/10

  Several Dayton-area businesses, churches and organizations said Friday, Jan. 15, they will continue their efforts to raise donations for Haiti, which has been devastate by a 7.

• Helping with relief efforts?
  1/15/10

  Is your business, church or organization raising funds to help relief efforts in Haiti? If so, we’d like to hear about.

• Speedway hosting auction for Haiti earthquake victims
• Schools pray, send relief to Haiti
  1/14/10

  Dayton-area students are praying for Haiti, collecting money and sending supplies to the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation.

• Becky DeWine campuses damaged
  1/15/10

  The eight campuses that comprise the Becky DeWine School in the Port-au-Prince slum known as Cite Soleil have been damaged but not demolished, according to recent reports from Hands Together, the Massachusetts-based aid agency that supports the school.

• CSU player learns that 3 family members dead, 50 missing in Haiti
• Haiti helpline mix-up floods CareFlight call center
  1/15/10

  Donors seeking to give to a Haiti earthquake relief fund inundated Miami Valley Hospital’s CareFlight dispatch center with phone calls on Wednesday, Jan.

• FBI warns of Haiti donation scams
• Ohio Task Force One waiting to fly to Haiti to help out
  1/14/10

  Eighty members of Ohio Task Force One were getting a bit anxious on Thursday, Jan. 14, waiting at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to fly to Haiti.

• Quake consumes CSU students with ties to Haiti
  1/14/10

  Tevlin Petit-Frere had just stepped into a Haitian grocery store in Miami to get some bottled water for his mother and he said “everyone in the store was crying.

• DeWine concerned about Haitian center named after late daughter
  1/13/10

  On the best of days, life in the Port-au-Prince slum known as Cite Soleil has been described as a living hell, a place where people eat mud cakes spiced with bouillon cubes to survive.

• Ginghamsburg volunteers hoping to return to Haiti
  1/14/10

  When Tim McLean heard about the disaster in Haiti, his first thought was for friends there who “have become family.

• Catholics urge donations for Haiti quake relief
  1/14/10

  Archbishop Dennis Schnurr is calling on pastors throughout his 19-county archdiocese to pray for the people of Haiti and to take up a second collection this weekend, Jan.

• Haiti orphanage founded by Ohio couple survives quake, children reportedly safe
  1/14/10

  An orphanage housing 126 children in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, founded 10 years ago by an Ohio couple has survived Tuesday’s massive earthquake and the children are now sleeping outdoors for their safety.

• 18 local missionaries land in Haiti minutes before earthquake hits
  1/14/10

  Eighteen missionaries from a Miami County church landed in Port-au-Prince shortly before the earthquake hit on Tuesday, Jan.

• Haitian orphans supported by Kettering church safe after earthquake
  1/13/10

  The connection was shaky, barely audible, but it sounded like music when Wilson Cohoon of Bellbrook heard the voice of his friend Pastor Joel Beaucejour in Leogane, Haiti, after several failed attempts to get through.

• Photos: Area couple were missionaries in Haiti
  1/13/10

  Assistant pastor of Livingword Church in Vandalia, Don Adamson and his wife Sandee Adamson are also missionaries in Haiti. These photos were taken in the Cabaret area in Haiti about 15 mile north of Porta Prince Haiti during following tropic storm Anna in 2008.

• Know someone affected by the quake in Haiti?
  1/13/10

  Do you have family members or know of any Dayton-area residents working in Haiti? Let us know at 937-225-2212 or email information and contact numbers to localnews@daytondailynews.

• Local agencies assisting in relief efforts
  1/13/10

  Dayton-area relief agencies Wednesday, Jan. 13, were raising money in concert with their national counterparts to provide relief to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

• How to help Haitian earthquake victims
  1/13/10

  Local, national and international relief agencies Wednesday, Jan. 13, began raising money and channeling food, medical supplies and other items to help earthquake-ravaged Haiti.