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Lightning strikes start fires
HELENA, Mont. - More than 42,000 lightning strikes were recorded across the Northern Rockies in a 36-hour period, sparking new wildfires in Montana and Idaho in addition to the dozens already burning across the reg…
Automation in the air dulls pilot skills
WASHINGTON - Pilots' "automation addiction" has eroded their flying skills to the point that they sometimes don't know how to recover from stalls and other mid…
The Gypsy and David Copperfield
VIRGINIA CITY, Mont. - The Gypsy sat for decades in a restaurant amid the Old West kitsch that fills this former gold rush town, her unblinking gaze greeting t…
Michigan man killed by grizzly in Yellowstone
BILLINGS, Mont. - Wildlife agents were trying to capture a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park on Monday after it killed a Michigan hiker in the second fatal bear attack this summer at the famed park.
Flood worries ... and some relief
NEW YORK (AP) - Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power - b…
NASA might evacuate International Space Station
NASA may need to temporarily abandon the International Space Station, after the recent crash of a spacecraft that brings astronauts to the station.
Gadhafi's family fled to Algeria
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Members of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's family were reported Monday to have arrived in Algeria, a neighbor Libyan relatives have accused of supporting the ousted regime.
Man killed by bear at Yellowstone
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A grizzly bear killed a Michigan man whose body was found by hikers last week in Yellowstone National Park, officials said Monday.
Irene lashes coast
NAGS HEAD, N.C. - Still menacing Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday …
Obama: Getting through Irene will be 'tough slog'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama offered moral support Saturday to federal emergency management workers hunkered down for Hurricane Irene's weekend march up the East Coast and 14,000 active-duty and Nationa…
Two million ordered to flee Irene
MIAMI (AP) - Whipping up trouble before ever reaching land, Hurricane Irene zeroed in Friday for a catastrophic run up the Eastern Seaboard. More than 2 million people were told to move to safer places, and New Yor…
Montana grizzly story similar to Idaho's
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the Fairfield Sun Times in May. According to the paper's publisher, Rick Christy's father also shot and killed…
Hurricane Irene approaches East Coast
BUXTON, N.C. (AP) - A monstrous Hurricane Irene tightened its aim on the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday, threatening 65 million people along a shore-hugging path…
West laughs about East Coast quake
LOS ANGELES - Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling and books stopped thumping to the floor, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's m…
It's a wild, wild world
WASHINGTON - Our world is a much wilder place than it looks.