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BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — It's time to agitate the oysters at St. Stanislaus High School on Mississippi's Gulf coast. Students on a platform below the school's long pier gently shake their oyster garden's wire cages as they pull them from the water, loosening mud and algae that might keep water and nutrients from [...]
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Workers, volunteers and members of the National Guard fanned out in areas of Kentucky slammed by a series of tornadoes to begin the long process of recovery, including replacing thousands of damaged utility poles, delivering bottles of drinking water and continuing to search for the dead. The tornado outbreak Friday that [...]
HOLDERNESS, N.H. (AP) — Navigating her boat toward a wooden platform floating in an idyllic New Hampshire lake where "On Golden Pond" was filmed, biologist Tiffany Grade spotted what she had feared. An olive brown loon's egg with black speckles was sitting on a nest, abandoned by its parents and with no chance to hatch. [...]
LOS ANGELES — The rugged Lost Coast is about to become less forbidding. A conservation group last week said it planned to purchase a scenic 5-mile stretch of the Northern California coastline from a lumber company to protect it from logging and eventually open it up to the public. Save the Redwoods League said it [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The investigation into the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago ended as it began, with a mystery that might never be solved. All these decades later, it's still not even clear whether the gruesome homicide was the work of a pair of racist brutes or a larger group [...]
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — More drivers could find themselves stuck on snowy highways or have their travel delayed this winter due to a shortage of snowplow drivers. States from Washington to Pennsylvania, including Montana and Wyoming in the Rocky Mountains, are having trouble finding enough people willing to take the comparatively low-paying jobs that require [...]
DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's set to take effect in January. The effort is designed to keep landfills in the most populous state clear of food waste that damages the atmosphere [...]
Near the Tidal Basin in Washington, crews have cleaned grime off the white marble exterior of the Jefferson Memorial and fixed cracked stone to prevent falling debris. At the Statue of Liberty, plans are in the works to waterproof the exterior of the massive stone fort built in 1807 that serves as the monument's base. [...]
DENVER (AP) — Denver's winter has started with a whimper, and the parched mountains to the west aren't faring much better. The Mile High City has already shattered its 87-year-old record for the latest measurable snowfall set on Nov. 21, 1934, and it's getting close to breaking an 1887 record of 235 consecutive days without [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the past year, the southwestern Louisiana city of Lake Charles weathered two hurricanes, intense rainfall that sent water gushing down streets and a deep freeze that burst pipes. Yet Tommy Eastman may eventually drop coverage on his four-bedroom home — which has so far escaped damage — because the cost of [...]