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Forecasters issue red-flag warning for N.M.

ALBUQUERQUE Â– Warm, windy and dry conditions sweept across New Mexico on Sunday prompting a fire warning. Forecasters with the National Weather Service have issued red-flag warni...

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Regional News

After search, Texas man charged with threat

KAUFMAN, Texas  Authorities investigating the death of a Texas district attorney arrested a former justice of the peace and charged him Saturday with making a terroristic threat&...

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Soviet Mars craft may be found

LOS ANGELES  Space fans from Russia scanning NASA images have spotted what may be a Soviet spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1971 and then mysteriously stopped working. Pho...

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police nab man in connection with death of corrections chief

COLORADO SPRINGS  Both of the suspected white supremacist prison gang members whose names surfaced during an investigation into the slaying of Colorados prisons chief are now beh...

DATE: Apr 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Rise of anti-Thatcher tune challenges BBC

LONDON  Opponents of the late Margaret Thatcher are taking a kind of musical revenge on the former prime minister, pushing the song Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead up the Brit...

DATE: Apr 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Groundbreaking improv comic Jonathan Winters dies

LOS ANGELES  Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. ...

DATE: Apr 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bulldogs bite back in OT

It’s Yale and Quinnipiac for hockey title

DATE: Apr 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Utah fire danger high

SALT LAKE CITY  Utah land officials say this years wildfire season will be better than last year, but fire danger will still be high, and the state likely will see some large fir...

DATE: Apr 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Studies examine developing Wyoming wind for Colorado use

CASPER, Wyo.  Two new studies suggest that Wyoming and Colorado both would benefit economically by coordinating development of wind energy and power lines to carry that electricity. ...

DATE: Apr 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth