Posted 3:32 p.m. Mon., 03.01.10 - Dr. Patricia Wolff, executive director of Meds & Food for Kids, headed into Haiti days after the January earthquake. MFK, the St. Louis-based nonprofit she heads, has continued the production and distribution of "ready to use therapeutic food" to treat malnourished children in Haiti. Wolff talks about what she saw and what she'll face next when she returns to the country mid-March.

Posted 1:31 p.m. Mon., 03.01.10 - Quakes in Haiti, Japan and Chile have little to do with each other, earthquake experts in St. Louis say. And they can't do much to tell when or whether a Big One will rock southeast Missouri. But how devastating a quake will be usually depends on how close it is to a populated area -- and how strong the construction is.

Updated 1:15 p.m. Mon., 03.01.10 -  Rescue workers and police scrambled to dig out survivors and contain looting as the death toll from one of history's most powerful earthquakes mounted to more than 700 people. Firefighters searched for an estimated 60 people trapped inside a new 15-story apartment building that toppled onto its side in the southern city of Concepción. | Wall Street Journal

St. Louisans get some good news about friends and relatives in Chile. | stltoday.com

Geology of the quake. | New York Times

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Posted 11:14 a.m. Thurs., 02.11.10 - St. Louis-based Meds and Food for Kids fights malnutrition in children in Haiti -- a mission more critical than ever. Though hurt by the earthquake, the organization has been able to swing back into action and provide fortified peanut butter to partner organizations serving needy children. A local fund-raising challenge is now working to raise more money for the charity. (Photo from MFK)

Posted 12:52 p.m. Mon., 02.01.10 - Disappearing islands and a lack of fresh water are two of the problems that are already afflicting parts of the world. As part of a recent swing through the area -- with stops also in St. Louis -- three journalists affiliated with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting held a forum at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and told of the problems they witnessed in other countries. (Photo of the Carteret Islands from the Pulitzer Center.)

Posted 2:47 p.m. Mon., 01.25.10 - A dozen doctors and nurses took off from St. Louis this morning for Haiti. The team will add to the people who are already volunteering at Sacre Coeur hospital, which was founded by St. Louisans. The hospital has mushroomed from 75 beds to 300 and will go up to 500 soon - all in response to the earthquake.

Posted 3:40 p.m. Fri., 01.22.10 - In the 10 days since a 7.0 earthquake wreaked havoc on Haiti, St. Louis residents have opened their wallets to a range of national relief organizations with local branches. On Friday, people from many of those agencies gathered at the United Way of Greater St. Louis to make a plea for continued donations -- specifically cash -- and to stress that the need for contributions is far from over. (Photo of the collapsed national palace from Wikipedia )

Posted 2:27 p.m. Wed., 01.20.10 - Hope soars when the whooshing sound of a helicopter nears a soccer field in the northern Haitian town of Milot. Eighty miles from the chaos of Port-au-Prince, doctors are saving lives in air-conditioned, well-equipped operating rooms at the Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot. Since it was established in the mid-1980s, St. Louis doctors have regularly volunteered there.