When Debbie Wrigley was browsing through the sidewalk sale at Millie’s Hallmark, she expected to find a few gifts for her grandchildren. Instead she found bargain-priced shoes and T-shirts to send to children in Haiti.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Ernesto became the first hurricane of the Atlantic season Sunday with winds of 75 mph, and forecasters said it would strengthen as it headed toward the Gulf of Mexico, where it could menace a wide swath of coastline including New Orleans.

As Haiti dissolves deeper into chaos, the White House will come under growing pressure to dispatch U.S. troops, but it is rightly reluctant to do so.

Greenfield Elementary School in  the Gilbert Unified School District, recently completed a Change For Haiti coin drive and raised $1,000.

Paragon Science Academy in Chandler is launching the Haiku 4 Haiti program.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  — Ten U.S. Baptist missionaries were charged with kidnapping Thursday for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti to a hastily arranged refuge just as officials were trying to protect children from predators in the chaos of a great earthquake.

MIAMI — As horrific images of Haiti flashed across the screens, murmurs of recognition floated through the audience at Univision Network's live celebrity telethon, many people nodding as they recalled disasters in their native countries.

Academy Award winner Sean Penn was in town this week. He did not come to discuss politics. He came to further hope, and to thank the thousands of Arizonans who have made contributions big and small to address the disaster that remains in Haiti.

CANCUN, Mexico — The Inter-American Development Bank said Monday it has agreed to forgive $479 million in debts owed by quake-ravaged Haiti. Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno said the bank's board of governors voted to forgive the debt and will offer $2 billion in financing to the Caribbean nation over the next 10 years.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake - and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — It will take three long years to clear the rubble left by Haiti's devastating earthquake, said President Rene Preval who admitted even he's still afraid to sleep under concrete in case another quake strikes.

Isagenix, a Chandler company that sells health and wellness products, plans to donate 1.2 million weight-loss shakes to victims of the recent Haiti earthquake.