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Delta tops long-running ranking of U.S. airlines

Delta Air Lines comes in first in a long-running study that ranks U.S. airlines by how often flights arrive on time and other statistical measures. Researchers who crunch the numb...

Sorrow revisited: Re-creating Katrina’s muck in New Orleans

Exhibit depicts how flooding ravaged homes

First verse: Searching for America’s first published poet

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – Anne Bradstreet was the North American continent’s first published poet, yet her legacy has largely been lost to time. Now, professors and students at Merri...

High March temperatures shortened Alaska’s winter weather

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Unusually high March temperatures lopped weeks off Alaska’s long winter and reflect a warming climate trend, state climate experts say. March is normally relia...

Last grants coming for endangered Route 66 program

ALBUQUERQUE – An endangered federal program that has helped preserve the historic Route 66 Highway for two decades has issued its last call for grants aimed at saving aging buildings and lan...

South Florida sees a boom in ‘birth tourism’

MIAMI – Every year, hundreds of pregnant Russian women travel to the United States to give birth so that their child can acquire all the privileges of American citizenship. They p...

The great getaway: Start planning your summer adventures in Colorado

No matter how long you’ve lived in Colorado and how much you love it, I’ll bet there still are places you haven’t explored. I’ve lived here 40-plus years and continue to discover...

Exploring the enduring bond between dogs, people

Exhibit allows you to see, smell with powers of a canine

The Vessel: Soaring sculpture is centerpiece of massive NYC development

NEW YORK – A towering sculpture called Vessel – made up of 2,500 twisting steps the public can climb – is the visual centerpiece of Hudson Yards, a $25 billion urban complex on Manhattan’s W...

Flight attendant detained by immigration on return to U.S.

A Texas flight attendant who was enrolled in the government’s program for “Dreamers” flew to Mexico for work and was stopped by immigration authorities who forced her to spend more than a mo...

Tens of thousands converge on California ‘poppy apocalypse’

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. – Like Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz,” the Southern California city of Lake Elsinore is being overwhelmed by the power of the poppies. About 150,000 people ov...

Rain ignites super bloom in California desert

BORREGO SPRINGS, Calif. – It started with the desert lilies in December. Since then, a wave of wildflower blooms has been crescendoing across Southern California’s Anza-Borrego desert in a b...
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