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4 dead from storm as Isaias brings threat of floods across the Southeast
Despite warnings of life-threatening storm surges ahead of the storm, several major routes along the coast were op…
Search continues for missing plane
A search for a missing aircraft that was carrying two Kalispell Daily Inter Lake staff writers and two men from Missoula shifted sharply late Monday from the Flathead Valley area to Sanders County and the National …
Sen. Robert Byrd dead at 92
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senator Robert C. Byrd, a son of West Virginia coal country who used his mastery of Senate rules and a taste for hardball tactics to become a passionate and often feared advocate for the state and…
Kagan pledges impartiality, restraint
WASHINGTON (AP) - Elena Kagan pledged to be a model of impartiality and restraint as a Supreme Court justice as the Senate opened confirmation hearings Monday, but she still braced for a grilling by Republicans who…
Station owners want BP help
Tension is mounting between BP and the neighborhood retailers that sell its gasoline.
Palin decries 'Dumpster divers' at Calif. campus
TURLOCK, Calif. - Sarah Palin leveled criticism at California's attorney general and others raising questions about her visit to a cash-strapped university, te…
New reason to worry in Gulf: weather
NEW ORLEANS - The logistics of containing the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico are mind-boggling even in ideal conditions. Add a tropical storm like the one…
Idaho Briefs June 27, 2010
Utility seeks ruling to reclaim investment
Native Americans upset over inaction
HELENA, Mont. - Caught in the Senate filibuster of a bill to extend unemployment payments is a $3.4 billion government settlement with hundreds of thousands of…
Teen shot by Border Patrol was smuggler
EL PASO, Texas - A 15-year-old Mexican boy shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was among El Paso's most wanted juvenile immigrant smugglers, according to federal arrest records reviewed by The Associated …
Dick Cheney hospitalized
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital Friday after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-year-old Republican leader who has a long history of heart d…
Latest blunder fuels frustration in Gulf
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Earlier this month, BP boldly predicted the oil gushing from the bottom of the sea would be reduced to a "relative trickle" within days, and…
National briefs June 25,2010
Obama stresses no discord with Petraeus on board
Lake Michigan shipwreck found after 112 years
MILWAUKEE - A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and di…
Missouri woman drowns at Glacier National Park
WEST GLACIER, Mont. - A 62-year-old Missouri woman drowned after she fell from a bridge and was carried away by a fast-flowing creek in Glacier National Park.
McChrystal sacked, replaced by Petraeus
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama sacked his loose-lipped Afghanistan commander Wednesday, a seismic shift for the military order in wartime, and chose …