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Six Flags closes 9 North American roller coasters after families watch man fall to his death
Stevens to retire; summer battle ahead
WASHINGTON - The retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court's leading liberal, touched off an immediate election-year political battle Friday o…
Palin, Obama spar from afar
NEW ORLEANS - President Barack Obama and Republican Sarah Palin sparred from a distance over nuclear policy with each questioning the other's experience on the…
Glaciers continuing to shrink
Two environmental groups have issued a new report drawing attention to the effects of climate change on Glacier National Park, particularly the ongoing recession of the park's alpine glaciers. Two more of the park'…
Fort Hood suspect to be isolated
BELTON, Texas - The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood will be kept isolated from all other inmates at the jail where he was transferred early Friday, the local sheriff said. Maj. N…
Kalispell principal resigns after shoplifting conviction
KALISPELL, Mont. - A school principal who stole from a Kalispell grocery store has resigned. Following a shoplifting conviction in February, Matt Fawcett of Kalispell resigned as the principal of Canyon Elementary …
Document shows Ratzinger stalled pedophile case
LOS ANGELES - The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to a 19…
Four missing W.Va. miners dead, final toll at 29
MONTCOAL, W.Va. - Rescue workers located four bodies deep in a West Virginia coal mine, dashing any faint hopes of finding more survivors of a deadly explosion…
Park roads beginning to open up
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK - Portions of Glacier National Park roads are beginning to open up, according to a weekly road report from the park. Going-to-the-Sun Roa…
Health care advocate Stupak to retire from Congress
MARQUETTE, Mich. - Rep. Bart Stupak insists that tea party activists outraged over his crucial support of health care legislation didn't run him out of office, but his decision to retire gives conservatives a rally…
Air still unsafe; rescuers wait to re-enter mine
MONTCOAL, W.Va. - Anxious search crews prepared late Thursday to pump nitrogen into a coal mine where an explosion killed 25, a last-ditch bid to flush dangerous gases out and allow rescuers to reach up to four sur…
Nuclear treaty signed
PRAGUE - The nuclear weapons cuts President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed on Thursday would shrink the Cold War superpowers' arsenals to the lowest point since the frightening arms race …
Toyota official: 'We need to come clean'
WASHINGTON - Five days before Toyota announced a massive recall, a U.S. public relations executive at the automaker warned colleagues in an internal e-mail: "We need to come clean" about accelerator problems, accor…
Rescuers unable to enter W.Va. mine
MONTCOAL, W.Va. - Two full days after the worst U.S. mining disaster in a generation, dangerous gases underground prevented rescuers late Wednesday from ventur…
White supremacist leader killed
VENTERSDORP, South Africa (AP) - A 15-year-old who minded cattle for South Africa's most notorious white supremacist told his mother that he and an older labor…
Montana man rescued after falling through thin ice
KALISPELL, Mont. - An ice fisherman survived frigid Beaver Lake for almost 20 minutes after falling through the ice Tuesday afternoon before he was pulled to safety by members of the Whitefish Fire Department. The …