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Oil spill in Yellowstone is 25 miles long
LAUREL, Mont. - An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterw…
Can't we all just get along?
GIFFORD PINCHOT NATIONAL FOREST, Wash. - Lights flash in the dusk as police cars surround a blue school bus painted with colorful hearts and flowers. Several y…
Residents set to return to Los Alamos
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - With firefighters holding their ground against the largest wildfire ever in New Mexico, officials at the nation's premier nuclear weapons laboratory and in the surrounding city planned for t…
Report: Millions suffer long-lasting pain in U.S.
WASHINGTON - Nearly a third of Americans experience long-lasting pain - the kind that lingers for weeks to months - and too often feel stigma rather than relief from a health care system poorly prepared to treat th…
World/Nation Briefs July 2, 2011
Cell phone ban approved in Whitefish
WHITEFISH, Mont. - An ordinance banning the use of hand-held cell phones while driving passed a second vote Monday at the Whitefish City Council meeting.
The economic recovery turns 2: Feel better yet?
This is one anniversary few feel like celebrating.
Wacky West weather means July 4 snow
A summer that looks a whole lot more like winter has travelers across the West scrambling to revise their Fourth of July itineraries - or at least their packin…
INCF receives $3.5 million endowment
SPOKANE - An anonymous donor recently contributed $3.5 million for a new endowment fund with the Inland Northwest Community Foundation.
World / Nation Briefs June 30, 2011
Airplane deployed to monitor air over fire
Washington to shut down tourism agency
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Like a business trying to sell a product, Washington state has for years attracted visitors by promoting stunning images of some of the n…
Minot residents evacuated
MINOT, N.D. - Chased from their homes by rising floodwaters and bunking with friends, clergymen Mike Johnson and Mike Pancoast did what seems to come naturally…
People divided on looming debt crisis
WASHINGTON - It might be time for another midnight ride by Paul Revere, this time warning "the creditors are coming."
Mobster's run almost textbook case of evasion
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger did almost everything right in evading capture for 16 years.
US border security: Huge costs, mixed results
HIDALGO, Texas - Perched 20 feet above a South Texas cabbage field in a telephone booth-sized capsule, a National Guardsman passes a moonlit Sunday night with …