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Mars research crew emerges after 8 months of isolation

HONOLULU – Six NASA-backed research subjects who have been cooped up in a Mars-like habitat on a remote Hawaii volcano since January emerged from isolation Sunday. They devoured fresh-picked...

DATE: Sep 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New storm Maria a growing threat to Irma-slammed Caribbean

MEXICO CITY – The hurricane-battered islands of the Caribbean are facing yet another storm threat: Forecasters said Sunday that Tropical Storm Maria is likely to hit the Leeward Islands as a...

DATE: Sep 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mesa County’s touted pretrial services facing serious issues

GRAND JUNCTION – Mesa County’s pretrial services program has been seen as a state and national model in reducing jail overcrowding since its creation in 1989. But rising crime and the outcom...

DATE: Sep 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bicyclists get free roadside assistance in Connecticut city

HARTFORD, Conn. – Maureen Hart was riding home on the Founders Bridge into Hartford when the tire on her bicycle went flat. Stranded on her way home from a friend’s house, Hart to...

DATE: Sep 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Warm waters off West Coast has lingering effects for salmon

SEATTLE – The mass of warm water known as “the blob” that heated up the North Pacific Ocean has dissipated, but scientists are still seeing the lingering effects of those unusually warm sea ...

DATE: Sep 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Porsche plows into spectators at Idaho car show

Driver cooperating with authorities

DATE: Sep 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

St. Louis cop’s acquittal triggers second day of protests

ST. LOUIS – Noisy demonstrators marched through an upscale shopping mall Saturday to protest the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man, af...

DATE: Sep 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

UK police make ‘significant’ arrest in London subway blast

LONDON – British police made a “significant” arrest Saturday in the manhunt for suspects a day after the London subway was hit by a partially-exploded bomb and launched a heavily armed searc...

DATE: Sep 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Istanbul police detain 74 suspected Islamic State militants

ISTANBUL – Turkey’s official news agency says police have detained 74 suspects who are alleged members of the Islamic State group. The Anadolu news agency said Saturday the anti-t...

DATE: Sep 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

VA data show veteran suicide highest in U.S. West, rural areas

WASHINGTON – Suicide among military veterans is especially high in the western U.S. and rural areas, according to new government data released Friday that show wide state-by-state dispariti...

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tear gas after protesters break mayor’s window

ST. LOUIS – Protesters have broken a front window and splattered red paint at St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home, and police have responded in force, using tear gas to disperse the crowd. ...

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cuba mystery: Even Castro baffled by harm to US diplomats

HAVANA – Raul Castro seemed rattled. The Cuban president sent for the top American envoy in the country to address grave concerns about a spate of U.S. diplomats harmed in Havana....

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World