Washington Haitian community gathers for Mass in Silver Spring
Article | Therese Ridore arrived weeping to Mass for the local Haitian community in Silver Spring on Friday evening.

Schools' collapse leaves Haiti's future in rubble
Article | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Of the many things taken from this city by the earthquake, few are as threatening to Haiti's future as the near destruction of a school system viewed across society here as the only path to a better life.

Haiti seeks more food and shelter aid for coming weeks
Article | MONTREAL -- Haiti's government made an emotional appeal for more aid Monday, asking for food to feed 1.5 million people for 15 days, as international donors gathered for a conference here to attempt to organize an orderly path to recovery for the quake-devastated nation.

'Mommy and Daddy would come as soon as possible'
Article | For two days, as stories of unfathomable suffering poured out of Haiti, three families in Pella, Iowa, prayed that their children were alive.

A symbol of stability lies shattered in Port-au-Prince
Article | Before the earthquake, the Hotel Montana was the place to be in Haiti. During coups and crises, it provided air-conditioned shelter from the political storms for the diplomats, spies and aid workers -- and a few heavy-duty criminals -- who gathered nightly at the News Bar under a towering mahogan...

Frederick family prepares for new arrival from Haiti
Article | David Hubner was a touch harried as he answered a reporter's phone call Wednesday afternoon.

Aftershock spurs exodus: 'It is just too scary to stay'
Article | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Haitians pushed and clawed onto rusty boats and dented buses by the thousands Wednesday, hoping to escape a capital city newly unnerved by the strongest aftershock since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

'For us, the government doesn't exist at all'
Article | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- The news on the radio delivered the latest shock to Ives Sima: The eight-story technical college run by his cousin in the Haitian capital had collapsed in Tuesday's massive earthquake.

Digging through the destruction
Article | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Desperate Haitians clawed at the rubble of their ruined capital for a second day Thursday, retrieving their dead and rescuing the living, as an international armada of ships and aircraft struggled to provide food, water, medicine and shelter.

Digging through the destruction
Article | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Desperate Haitians clawed at the rubble of their ruined capital for a second day Thursday, retrieving their dead and rescuing the living, as an international armada of ships and aircraft struggled to provide food, water, medicine and shelter.

After trying journey, N.Va. team begins to ease suffering
Article | JACMEL, HAITI -- After 2 1/2 days of travel, over the sea, across borders, in planes so small they had to leave most of their food and water behind, the emergency relief workers from Northern Virginia had finally arrived.