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The winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado's Front Range was rare, experts say, but similar events will be more common in the coming years as climate change warms the planet — sucking the moisture out of plants — suburbs grow in fire-prone areas and people continue to spark destructive blazes. "These fires are [...]
With COVID-19 cases surging just as students are about to return from winter break, dozens of colleges are moving classes online again for at least the first week or so of the semester — and some warn it could stretch longer if the wave of infection doesn't subside soon. Harvard is moving classes online for [...]
Just before Thomas Randele died, his wife of nearly 40 years asked his golfing buddies and his co-workers from the dealerships where he sold cars to come by their home. They gathered to say goodbye to a guy they called one of the nicest people they'd ever known — a devoted family man who gushed [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Indigenous leaders are concerned about a proposed multimillion-dollar transmission line that would cross what they consider sacred lands. The transmission line planned by the federal government would bring more electricity to Los Alamos National Laboratory as it looks to power ongoing operations and future missions at the northern New [...]
In February, newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took the unprecedented step of signing a memo directing commanding officers across the military to institute a one-day stand-down to address extremism within the nation's armed forces. The stand-down came in response to the participation and the subsequent arrests of several veterans and at least one active [...]
HONOLULU — A working group tasked by the state legislature to come up with recommendations for a new management plan for Hawaii's tallest peak and its affiliated telescopes recently released the first draft of its proposal. Mauna Kea is the proposed site for what would be the world's largest optical telescope — the Thirty Meter [...]
Parents of school-age children and the boards and administrators who set the rules for schools may want to rethink school uniforms as pupils return to the classroom next week. A new Ohio State University-led study found that school uniforms offer no marked benefit to the students who wear them. About the only bright spot, according [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — The city of Atlanta's official seal shows a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War. What it doesn't show is that Atlanta was rebuilt with slavery's successor: convict labor, working in horrific conditions to break granite at the Bellwood Quarry and burn clay at the Chattahoochee Brick Company. Thousands of [...]
DENVER (AP) — Relatives, lawmakers and other supporters of a trucker sentenced to 110 years in prison after an explosive brake-failure crash that left four people dead rallied in Denver on Wednesday to plead for clemency. Supporters of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos say the sentence is deeply unjust and truck drivers around the country have taken up [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three conservation groups filed a formal notice last week of their intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it doesn't take steps to protect manatees from water pollution in Florida. Pollution-fueled algae blooms are cited as the cause of over half of the more than 1,000 manatee deaths in [...]