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Hurricane Rachel strengthens to a Category 3 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast
Cold snap helps wake up wheat, corn prices
NEW YORK (AP) - Wheat prices are surging this week as temperatures plunge in the U.S. Plains states and after a government report showed domestic supplies slipped.
Coffee, chit-chat and cats
OAKLAND, Calif. - Cat lovers in Northern California are pouncing on the chance of spending time with feline company at a new cat cafe in Oakland.
Mining official faces charges
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Don Blankenship, the steely-eyed executive once dubbed "The Dark Lord of Coal Country," on Thursday became the highest-ranking coal official to face federal charges in the nation's deadliest min…
Study: As world warms, U.S. gets more lightning
WASHINGTON - Lightning strikes in the United States will likely increase by nearly 50 percent by the end of the century as the world gets warmer and wetter, a …
Driving on the cheap?
NEW YORK - The average price of gasoline will be below $3 a gallon in 2015, the government predicted Wednesday. If the sharply lower estimate holds true, U.S. …
Boxed turkeys spilled on highway will be donated
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) - About 25,000 pounds of frozen boxed turkeys that an overturned tractor-trailer spilled on a Northern California freeway two weeks befo…
Spaceship pilot unaware co-pilot unlocked brake
LOS ANGELES - The pilot of the Virgin Galactic spaceship that tore apart over the Mojave Desert didn't know his co-pilot had prematurely unlocked its brakes, though protocol for the test flight required the co-pilo…
'Welcomed with prayers'
BILLINGS, Mont. - A group of Yellowstone National Park bison is due to finally arrive at a permanent home on a northeastern Montana American Indian reservation on Thursday, almost a decade after they were captured …
Robert Plant quashes Led Zeppelin reunion claims
LONDON (AP) - Robert Plant says there's no truth to reports that he turned down a lucrative offer from Virgin boss Richard Branson to play Led Zeppelin reunion…
Woman gets five years for Yellowstone pot trafficking
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - A federal judge sentenced a West Virginia woman to five years in prison for trafficking nearly 300 pounds of marijuana in a recreational vehicle through Yellowstone National Park on the last of…
Testing its metal
Snow buries parts of Rockies
Resurvey of small grains farmers changes little
Moderates will be key in GOP-led Senate